[1997-02-01-ECW-TV] Raven vs The Sandman

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Last few minutes. Lori interferes on behalf of Raven, he rips her dress and she has a BWO t-shirt on. Both Raven and Sandman are surprised. The BWO decide to come out. Raven punches Stevie and Stevie superkicks him and Raven lands on Sandman, pinning him to win the title. This finish is too clever and overthought.

[soup23]

The action outside with Raven beating on the sandman is pretty bad. Sandman makes a comeback but Lori interferes. Sandman rips her dress to reveal a BWO shirt. They come out of the back and Stevie superkicks Raven this time explicitly without any misconception being made. The pin with Raven landing on the Sandman looked weird. They are doing a good job though of setting up the core four for the Barely Legal title angle.

[Kevin Ridge]

I was surprised Lori was still involved at this point. The Raven/Sandman feud was beyond done at this point. Richards shows up and super kicks Raven but he falls back on top of Sandman to keep the ECW title.

[PeteF3]

Has Sandman gotten Tyler back yet? Either way, this feud is on its last legs--Raven is already moving on to Terry Funk and Richards, it's time to find a new dance partner for Sandman. Bad action but a clever finish that's pulled off okay, when it could have been a total disaster.

[KB8]

I don't really know what's going on here with the who's-side-is-she-on Lori and the bWo t-shirt, but either way I agree that this feels like a feud that could be doing with a conclusion already. Richards standing up for himself again was good stuff, but I thought the finish was a little too cute.