[1997-10-25-ECW-TV] Shane Douglas and Rick Rude

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Shane taunts the crowd in his Shane Douglas way before asking Rick Rude to give him another tough challenger. Rude is getting a mix of "You Sold Out", "You Fucked Shawn" and "You Fucked Chyna" chants. Classy. The implication is that Douglas is paying Rude by letting him have sex with Francine (who seems about ready to fall out of her dress). The crowd is completely ruining this and won't let them do whatever their angle is at all. This time, Rude has produced Bam Bam Bigelow as an opponent! He and Douglas are in a shoving match. Candido and Sunny are trying to reason with him to no avail.

[Strummer]

Tammy just looks ridiculously hot here. Good God

[Kevin Ridge]

Francine is showing off everything in that dress. The fans are not endeared to Rude. Rude lets the fans do their chants. Well done Francine to tell those fans to screw off. Douglas is thinking he is getting Michaels as an opponent but nope, it’s Bigelow! Sunny has spent more time on ECW TV than WWF TV.

[soup23]

I like this venue a ton for ECW because of the closed corners and overall atmosphere it creates. I also liked how this whole promo developed and thought Douglas and especially Francine did well in their roles. Francine overall feels like a kind of forgotten figure as she is great in her role of knowing how to rile up the crowd, being smart enough to know what her best assets are, and using those to their fullest advantage.

[Robert S]

"You fucked Chyna." - "I fucked in China, in Singapore, in Korea. Tell me something I don't already know." Nice reaction by Rude.

[PeteF3]

Charming "she's got herpes" chant for Francine. Rude brags about being the only man in wrestling who can go anywhere he wants, wherever he wants...words that are VERY prescient.