Pitbull #2 vs. Shane Douglas

[1.0] "I was begging, pleading with the wrestling gods to end this match. Alas my prayers meant nothing. However long this match went (I'm too lazy to double check), it was way too long. The story of Pitbull targeting the neck was fine and the piece of broken table being used as a weapon looked clean, however Pitbull shat the bed here and gave this match the rightful honour of being the worst on the card."

[0.0] "This match went about 10 times longer than it should have and was immensely boring throughout. The crowd showed total apathy towards both men and only woke up to chant misogynistic insults at Francine. The storyline that this match was built on was legitimately compelling, unfortunately Pitbull #2 has zero aura and Shane Douglas isn't much better."

[3.0] "This angle was so hot and personal and yet these two guys decided to just... chain wrestle each other? This match completely missed the mark."

[2.0] "You know, when you go back and watch old ECW, there's always a moment when you are like "What was in the crack Paul Heyman was smoking? " For this show it's making Pitbull #2 wrestle for 20 minutes. Shane Douglas sucks here too and they get booed and chanted boring by the ECW crowd in what was a pretty hot angle going into this with the Pitbull neck break and Rick Rude debut angle. The post match saves it from a complete zero with the well done Rick Rude appearance that finally wakes the crowd up."

[4.0] "Stars out pretty good as Pitbull 2 gets started early with his music still playing with some good offense and an engaged crowd. Definitely a slower paced matchup and did have moments that did not look good at times. Moment of the match seemed to be Gary Wolfe jumping the guardrail to get involved. We want blood chant shows is the least surprising chant I have heard. Got sloppier towards the end."

[2.0] "Majority of the match was slow, boring, and featured many slip ups in spots. It's not the worst match in the world but man it's a slog to get through and the weakest match on the card."

[3.0] "I mean it's quite funny, the endless botched spots and awkward redos meant I enjoyed this match in a way that wasn't intended. The crowd alternating between Pitbull chants and just chanting boring is really funny. Both lads seem absolutely gassed a third of the way into the match and don't gel at all when trying to actually wrestle and that's funny. The fact they put this on after that 6 man tag and let it go on for 20 minutes is very funny. The ending is funny. That table spot to the outside killed me. Absolute train wreck but not without charm."

[2.0] "An absolute mess of a match. The action itself was slow and dull, it lasted at least five minutes longer than it should have done and the drawn out finish with the multiple weak looking kick outs from Pitbull 2 And his no selling of various weapons shots was hideous."

[2.0] "Douglas cuts a great promo, Pitbull makes a run in to start it hot and then they immidiately go to the chain wrestling, which Pitbull was terrible at. This literally felt like Pitbull's first match in the wrestling school, including the atmosphere - he was awkward with his movements, his timing was awful and his punches were horrendous. Also it obviously didn't help that it was the ECW show and fans had to see some furniture, because otherwise they wouldn't fall asleep at night, but even then the work was just atrocious."

[2.0] "My mother always taught me that if I did not have something nice to say, then it is usually best not to offer anything. I have nothing nice to say about this match. It was 15 minutes longer than it needed to be."

[8.0] "The first ECW PPV continues... this match has a lot of low ratings, the primary criticisms being that the pace is too slow and the match too long, running just over 20 minutes. I can see this point of view but I actually quite liked this match. Part of it is likely that it was built up very well. The Pitbulls, simply called Pitbull #1 & #2 most of the time, were a long standing team in ECW, but their success was cut short when "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, first ECW champion under the "Extreme" banner, broke the neck of Pitbull #1. Ever since then they have been at war, culminating here in a major grudge match. The match started with a big blast of energy as the powerful Pitbull slammed Douglas around, fired up by his desire for revenge. The match did then settle into a slower pace as both men tried to attack the neck of the other, but I thought it was well done, some really wrenching attacks that looked painful as hell. There is more than a bit of hardcore action as well, with Douglas taking a pretty great table bump over the ropes to the floor at one point and in other wild moment Douglas chucking an entire guard rail out of the ring down onto Pitbull's head. I think it's a match that benefits a lot from having followed the build up, if you watched this cold I don't think it would be as good. With a wide variety of dirty tricks Shane Douglas was able to escape with his title intact, but he received further comeuppance after the match. Far from perfect but I enjoyed it."

[0.0] "How the fuck do you follow that insane Michinoku trios match with this garbage? This has got to be the worst match in ECW history right? I can't think of a match that is shittier than this. May god have mercy on your soul Paul Heyman for allowing this to happen."

[0.0] "This is extremely boring. What else can I say about this it's really that fucking boring. I can confidently say this is the worst ECW match I've watched in my life and I have watched every single ECW show minus a few hardcore TV's. I'd rather watch Super Summer Sizzler Spectacular 93 in its entirety then watch this ONE match again"

[1.0] "Not really a fan of this type of storytelling in wrestling, but you would think that a big grudge match like that would at least give us a fun chaotic brawl especially in a promotion like ECW! It gets off to a fine enough start when Pitbull #2 comes out and starts brawling immediately and then it just peters out very quickly! Pitbull gasses very quickly and the weapon spots look even worse than Lance Storms attempts at RVD earlier in the show! Fans turn on this very quickly and unfortunately not much of anything happens for 20 minutes. What a horrible way to follow that Michonoku pro classic!"

[1.0] "I feel like I just wasted an hour. I could've spent that time exercising, or working on cleaning my house. Instead, I watched two bad wrestlers have a bad match for 20 minutes. Paul Heyman deserved to go bankrupt for letting this shitty match happen."

[0.0] "How is the rating high enough already that I need to explain a 0? 20 minutes of nothing that felt like 45, so many shitty false finishes that the crowd eventually turned on the match, and Pitbull so gassed that he seemed near death for half of it. This coming after the Michi Pro six-man was hilarious."

[1.0] "A brisk start with a quick Pitbull attack on Shane Douglas was promising and I expected a decent brawl, but the result was a very boring slow and long match, at which there was almost no reaction from ECW fans at first. 20 minutes was probably too much."

[3.0] "The match was slow and went way too long. It started off great with Pitbull #2 rushing to the ring and attacking Shane and then the bell rings.. I dont get how you start a match in a brawling fashion and then immediately start doing rest holds for a few minutes which completely kills the crowd. They try to get the crowd hot again with 3 piledrivers in a row but it had been too late. When you have other amazing and more charismatic wrestlers and matches on the show this will just not hold up. This match probably wouldve held up in the territory days but this was 1997 and it didnt hold up well."

[2.0] "Painful to watch. The crowd agreed with me at points.20+ minutes of this was a terrible idea from the start."

[7.0] "I actually really enjoyed this match up, fit well on the card, Was slightly slow but the story was enjoyable"

[2.0] "This had a hot angle going into this, with Douglas breaking Pitbull #1's neck. It's such a shame that the match we got here was so bad. I've liked what I've seen from Pitbull #2 so far, but this was a completely exposing performance that saw him gas up and stinks the place out with a 20-minute snoozefest. The longer this went, the worse it got. Pitbull hits a fallaway slam through a table in a failed attempt to wake up the crowd. Douglas attempts to drop Pitbull groin first onto a guardrail, but Pitbull is so exhausted he can't get himself up for it. They attempt to break each other's necks by locking on tight facelocks, but they never actually go anywhere interesting with this idea and it's eventually forgotten about as the match goes on. They attempt to redo the Heatwave '95 finish, with Pitbull kicking out of every gimmick Douglas throws at him and looking like a total badass as a result, but the crowd is so burnt out by this point and Pitbull is too tired to show any energy with his comebacks. At least we get a cool post-match angle with Rick Rude and Brian Lee for suffering this trainwreck."

[3.0] "I've no idea why Heyman though putting Pitbull #2 in a 20 minute match was the way to impress a new audience, but it wasn't. This was slow and dull - Douglas was OK with a competent opponent but wasn't really capable of carrying a bad one to something interesting. The worst thing is there was nothing particularly extreme about this match, which might have made it better. The post match cameo by Rick Rude is the only worthwhile part of the match."

[7.0] "I liked this match. Even if it was maybe slow, it was impactful. It was a real competitive match, and when you're invested, that's good."

[2.0] "In no way shape or form should Pitbull #2 be allowed to go over five minutes in a single matches and for some reason they gave him 20 minutes on the first ever PPV. Skip the match and just watch the post match angle with Rick Rude"

[1.0] "Everything about this is just wrong. It's supposed to be a blood feud and they decide to wrestle a 1970s house show match with some lazy hardcore spots every now and then. In no world should Pitbulll #2 be given 20 minutes in a singles match and Shane Douglas is definitely not good enough to carry him. The crowd is dead until the post-match stuff with Rick Rude"

[5.0] ". Shane Douglas and Pitbull #2 make the worst of the night; Little action, slow pace and some good interferences that make it less worse.5."

[0.0] "This match was so boring, I kept waiting for something to happen, Douglas works on #2's neck for 20 minutes and somehow just can't do anything good or cool or something to wake up the crowd because he can't. The Pitbulls are awesome tag guys, but not singles. The Rick Rude fake out was cool."

[4.0] "Extremely boring and plodding. Douglas tries to insert the storyline of trying to break the neck of the other Pitbull by focusing a lot on neck work and pacing the match around that, which is pretty decent ring psychology. The issue? Pitbull DOESN'T SELL SHIT. Legit, he barely acts like any damage is being done to him and the money shot of the match with the clutch in front of the camera has him just look slightly annoyed. Some weak brawling and Douglas overbooking with interference spots and the need to sneak weapons into a hardcore match combined with Pitbull being painfully basic in the ring equals a really weak matchup. Crowd died a death watching this, and I can't blame them, the pacing was glacial. This should've been a trash brawl under 15 minutes with all of the fluff taken out. The fact that Douglas thought he was going to somehow get the heat after a amazing Michinoku Pro showcase with this is beyond reason."

[4.0] "This match went like 10 minutes wayyy too long. There was prominence on working the neck, but it just felt super slow paced without much action from Shane Douglas."

[3.0] "Oh boy, this wasn't good. I saw what they wanted to do, with all the work on the neck of Pitbull #2, but this was too long. I know it was in the death spot after the spotfest from Michinoku Pro before, but they killed the crowd even more. Pitbull #2 is much better in a tag team configuration. Shane Douglas showed that even if he loved to call out Ric Flair or Shawn Michaels, he wasn't on their level when it comes to carrying a match."