[1995-10-10-ECW-TV] Cactus Jack vs El Puerto Ricano

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Classic. Cactus builds a whole match around headlocks just to piss off the ECW crowd and it works like a charm! The crowd starts doing the wave out of boredom, thinking they're clever when they're being worked like crazy, which is fun to see. El Puerto Ricano is a good athlete. Great finish, as Raven does a DDT on the outside behind the ref's back, then Cactus wins the match by performing an inside cradle. The post-match beatdown that Raven orders Cactus do to actively works against what they were trying to accomplish here, but leave it to Raven to muck things up and get in the way.

 

Tommy Dreamer makes the save and gives both Raven and Cactus DDTs and does the Cactus elbow to the floor. Raven and Cactus cut him off and this goes too long.

[Tim Evans]

Joey calls this "one of the worst matches of all time". Cactus was great here. Funny to see Hat Guy fuck up the wave.

[Laney]

Cactus was fantastic here and had the crowd in the palm of his hand. The match was great, but I agree that the post-match beatdown worked against what Cactus was doing in the match and the post-match antics went a little too long.

[PeteF3]

***** Match of the Decade. Cactus even yanks the tights on the winning cradle, just because he can. Then he doesn't want to continue the beatdown after the match, but Raven makes him do it anyway. Dreamer runs in and makes his point with a Cactus elbow on the concrete, but has to stick around and do his fans-bring-the-weapons shtick. He gets cut off by Raven quickly. I've liked a lot of this feud but this was a pretty underwhelming post-match angle, with Dreamer really looking like an idiot and Jack undermining everything he worked for during the match itself.