[1994-06-24-ECW-Hostile City Showdown] Public Enemy vs Dory & Terry Funk

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Dory sure can roll up a guy. He has no concept of the kind of match he's wrestling - this is a wild brawl, and he's doing European uppercuts and a spinning toehold. (Terry does the spinning toehold in brawls too, and it annoys me just as much.) Terry is MIA for big parts of this. Aside from the cool crimson visuals with Terry Funk, not much to this. I'm guessing it was an important ECW match because of the generation thing.

[Kevin Ridge]

Dory feels out of place in this match and from what is shown he is involved in most of the action. Paul E and 911 get involved. Not much of a match. We get the visual of Terry hanging Rocco Rock from upside down by the feet.

[Exposer]

This was atrocious. Dory has no idea what he's doing at all. Rocco Rock hanging by his feet was cool I guess.

[soup23]

Terrible finish and action ending with cool visual of Roccco hanging from a bloody Terry.

[Cross Face Chicken Wing]

I actually liked Dory's Euro upper-cuts and spinning toe hold. They actually looked believable, unlike everything else Dory did. Dory threw some of the weakest punches I've ever seen in this match. I couldn't tell if he was trying to wipe Rocco Rock's nose or punch it during the sequence at the end.

 

Dory looked like a Mulkey brother, only taller.

[PeteF3]

Hey, let's book a crazy ECW brawl main event and have all the focus on DORY FUNK. I like Dory more than most in the IWC, but goddamn, he fits into this as well as Bob Backlund does. That said, this match makes me unsure if Johnny Grunge ever actually attended a wrestling school. Another shitty-ass finish, even worse than Sabu vs. Cactus, and Styles' cluelessness as to why Paul E. and 911 were there was infuriating. Styles has gotten better, but jeez, they're there because they were paying for PE to take the Funks out. I picked up on this story, you could have done the same thing, Joey. Another shitty, overlong post-match that at least has a cool payoff with Rocco bungee-jumping off the eagle's nest.