[1996-03-12-ECW-TV] Interview: Shane Douglas

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Another great Pillman angle, this time with Brian Pillman trolling him at ringside and Douglas trying to take the high road at first. Douglas goes to hit Pillman, and Pillman throws a kid in front of him. Pillman then gets escorted out of the building by security and Pillman stays in the ring trying to call him out and security has to throw Douglas out. That section went too long but still good. This somehow leads to Bill Alfonso and Todd Gordon having a brawl, Taz attacking Todd Gordon, and then Bam Bam Bigelow coming out for the save. I don't know about all the stuff at the end, but the Pillman stuff was once again well done.

[Phil Austin]

The kid being that close to the chaos is still scary and possibly somewhat irresponsible, but its a hell of an angle

[Robert S]

The way the woman was trying to calm down the kid I would guess that the kid was not comfortable with this at all.

 

By the way: The sign "Dean - overpaid, overpushed babysitter" by sign guy went way over my head. Can someone explain that to me?

[ajtroma]

Fonzie's line of "In fact, I think I'll SLAP YOU!" cracks me up every time.

 

Yeah, that poor kid. I bet he's had this enormous fear of things flying at him, probably couldnt play baseball...He could have also been wailing about Shane's hideous jacket..

[PeteF3]

Pretty chaotic angle, with Pillman using his cousin and her toddler kid as human shields. Fascinating in its sheer audacity and not the last time we'll see a kid being uncomfortably close to extreme ECW action. Unfortunately this stuff looks worse in hindsight now that we know that Douglas-Pillman isn't going anywhere, that Hogan was already working to undercut Pillman by throwing him in the Doomsday Cage, and that Pillman's career and life would soon be altered by the big car wreck.

 

Tod Gordon gets ECW security to get Douglas to the back after they eject Pillman, but Bill Alfonso ends up confronting him and they have yet another brawl that's better than it has any right to be. Taz lays out Gordon and Bam Bam Bigelow makes a surprise appearance to run off Taz.

[soup23]

The Pillman vs. Douglas stuff may be the most I have ever cared about Douglas. Pillman putting the crying kid in front of him was great television, but kind of frightening in its reality. Now that I have a child, that resonated with me a lot more than if I had watched this a year ago.

[tim]

Good angle but a bit too long. I know Douglas was a big fixture of ECW but he just never feels that significant. Maybe you need to have been watching ECW from an early period in context. But Pillman carries the storyline with his antics.