[2000-09-24-ECW-Hardcore TV] Kid Kash vs Mikey Whipwreck / Rhino vs Kid Kash

[soup23]

The opening between Mikey and Kash is just getting started when Rhino comes in to interrupt. What we saw didn’t seem amazing but enjoyable enough. After break, it is Rhino vs Kash for the tv title. This was worked a straight sprint and was high octane action for the five minutes it lasted. Lots of spots of Kash ducking and moving for him to eventually fall prey to Rhino and the gore. We have a new champion and Rhino calls out RVD as that is the big money feud they are building to. **1/4 for the entire segment but fun stuff.

[AstroBoy]

I loved this. Whipwreck and Kash have a fine face vs. face match where both are pretty aggressive and testy with each other before Rhino comes in and gores both. Back from commercial and it's a total balls to the wall sprint between Kash and Rhino. Kash with intensity and urgency here that I haven't seen from him in other matches. Rhino is just vulnerable enough while also being a bruiser. They really get over animosity and hatred and it feels like a tooth and nail fight. Kash hits his out of control step up rana and Rhino lays him out with a short-arm clothesline in a great takeover spot. Finish is great with a sort of flash Gore and then one through the table to regain the belt. Rhino is awesome. I know it was short but as a whole package this was a blast.

 

***1/2

[GSR]

Kid Kash vs Mikey Whipwreck (ECW Hardcore TV 9/24/00)

After what fees like the hundredth stand off the year, Kash backdrops Mikey over the top rope to the floor before launching himself at him with a suicide dive.  He lays a couple of chops in, however as he then tries to rush him, Mikey dumps him face first into the ring apron.  Kash avoids the slingshot elbow drop, scoots to the top turnbuckle and hits a flying clothesline.  Mikey counters the tilt-a-whirl with a side slam, lifts Kash up in a double underhook when Rhino is in the ring and ready to pounce.  He sacrifices Kash to try and save himself, but that makes no difference as he ends up getting gored too.  Rhino with a piledriver on Mikey and as he ducks out the ring to look for something we go to a commercial break.

Kid Kash vs Rhino (ECW Hardcore TV 9/24/00)

We return from the advertisements to see Rhino running towards the ring, he doesn’t make it inside though, Kash taking him out with a tope suicida before he gets there.  Joey Styles informs us that the previous bout was declared a no-contest and Kash challenged Rhino to this match.  Kash dumps the ‘Manbeast’ into the front row and leaps off a chair over the guard rail onto him.  He takes too long climbing back to ringside however and Rhino hurls a chair at his head.  The action momentarily returns to the ring where Kash just about lands a double jump springboard rana before Rhino retreats to the outside again.  Twisting top rope quebrada!  Kash fires off some chops, but is cut down by a short armed clothesline.  Rhino sets up a table in the corner and an almighty gore separates Kash in half.  He picks his limp body up and then drives him through the table to regain the TV title.  Post-match Rhino breaks a piece of the table over Kash’s head, busting him open, and then calls out Rob Van Dam, telling him that if he wants the ECW TV title to get his ass out here now.  I’ve never seen such urgency out of RVD with the speed he’s moving down the aisle!  They go back and forth for a bit, infuriatingly Van Dam still managing to get a crowd pose in, until security are in to separate them as we go off the air.

I didn’t think much of the Kash/Mikey match, but it was a different matter altogether for what followed.  ‘Balls to the wall’ is a perfect phrase for what we got and it was also the perfect presentation of Rhino in the way that he regained the TV title.