Today in ECW History - July 2nd

 

Today in ECW History - July 2nd, 1999 

Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York:

• Mosco de la Merced def. Tony DeVito
• Skull Von Krush def. Simon Diamond
• Three-Way Dance: Yoshihiro Tajiri def. Little Guido and Super Crazy
• Francine def. Steve Corino
• Three-Way Dance Tag Team Match for ECW World Tag Team Championship: The Dudley Boys (Buh Buh Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) (c) def. Chris Chetti and Nova and Danny Doring and Roadkill to retain the titles
• Jerry Lynn def. Lance Storm
• Sabu def. Justin Credible
• ECW World Heavyweight Championship: Taz (c) def. Spike Dudley to retain the title
• ECW World Television Championship: Rob Van Dam (c) def. Balls Mahoney to retain the title

Brakkus, pictured, had the body (Vince's fetish) that seemed like he would have made it in the WWF but for some reason he didn't make it. 

Wrestler birthday(s): Brakkus turns 61 years old today. Brakkus was one of the few talents that were made available by the WWF as part of the agreement they had with ECW regarding talent. Apparently, as Vince McMahon has stated in the "Rise and Fall of ECW" documentary, he and Paul Heyman had an agreement where he would send talent down to Paul to develop in exchange for some money towards ECW every month. It was through this talent exchange that stars such as Brakkus and Al Snow were brought into the company. While Snow found a gimmick that got him over like a megastar in ECW with the ;''''''/ ;whole ECW Arena bobbing 1,000 Styrofoam heads at the 1998 House Party. Brakkus, however, was one of the talents that didn't gain anything from his time in ECW but 2 matches (that we know of that existed) which included him beating Danny Morrison (who would go on to become Danny Doring in his very next match) and his sort-of-remembered-only-by-hardcore-ECW-fans match at ECW CyberSlam '98 that saw Taz crush him and send the muscle bound freak packing back to Stamford. And that was the last we ever saw of Brakkus in an ECW ring. His career in the WWF was over by te time 1998 was over and he would quietly retire from in-ring competition the next year, never to be heard from again.

Scott Taylor, pictured, would go on to become a pretty successful name in the WWF in the years that would follow. Who would have thought this guy would be doing the Worm in the middle of the wrestling ring?! 

Also born on this day, in 1973, was Scott Taylor (who would go on to see fame later as the character "Scotty 2 Hotty" in the WWF. .In ECW he had two matches, losing both of them to Taz in February 1997 (February 14th and 15th respectively).