[2000-07-16-ECW-Heatwave] Little Guido vs Yoshihiro Tajiri vs Psicosis vs Mikey Whipwreck

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After the wrestlers are introduced, Mikey Whipwreck and the Sinister Minister make their way out.  At first it looks like they’re just here to watch Tajiri, but no, Mikey somersaults into the ring and this three-way is now a four-way.  In a sense this is our third ‘impromptu’ match on the PPV already; ECW don’t half overdo that trope.  Nice huracanrana on Guido and a ‘Whippersnapper’ for Tajiri.  Tony Mamaluke sprints out, however Mikey plants him with a flapjack.  Pescado onto Sal E., who I doubt sprints anywhere, but the big man catches and then runs him into the ring post.  He rolls him into the ring, guillotine leg drop by Psicosis and Guido steals the pin as Mikey is out of there already.  Well that was worth it!  Tajiri with a couple of headscissors variations and as Guido and Psicosis go at it on the arena floor, he takes out both with an Asai moonsault.  He superplexes him back inside, moonsault into a leg drop by Psicosis but Guido kicks out of the cover.  Psicosis was pretty careless on that, Guido getting his hands up to protect his face just in time when he realised he was about to land ass first right on it.  Guido doesn’t sell it for long anyway, hitting the ‘Kiss of Death’ (another name for the Tomokaze) on Psicosis before a Tajiri German sees us down to two.  Hard knife edge chops by Tajiri as he opens up on Guido.  He then does this really smart pin attempt that was a new one on me.  My words won’t do it justice, but with Guido sat on the top turnbuckle he gets underneath him, grabs his ankles and drops him face first to the canvas.  He then reaches backwards, grabs Guido’s arm and turns it over into a modified backslide.  Guido even manages to pull out a neat counter to that, starting with a neck bridge to get his shoulders off the mat.  Tajiri reels off his staples like the Tarantula, the handspring elbow, and the crowd are liking what they’re seeing, even more so when he ducks out to ringside to collect a chair.  He ties Guido in the ‘Tree of Woe’ and baseball slide dropkicks the chair into him.  As Tajiri continues after him with that chair, Guido backs into the corner, gets the boots up and kicks it into his face.  ‘Sicilian Slice’ and the crowd start that tedious “Where’s my Pizza?” chant.  Payback time from earlier with Guido dishing out some hard open handed slaps to the chest.  Tajiri escapes the ‘Kiss of Death’, blinds Guido with the mist and gets the win after a brainbuster onto the chair.  The fans who were being dicks to Guido just moments ago are now giving him a round of applause after he gets back to his feet for his efforts in the match.  Strange bunch the ECW crowd!

Not sure what the point of adding Mikey to the match was considering he was the first man eliminated after only a few minutes of action.  It was like they had no idea of what to do with him so just threw him into this three-way.  The same goes for Tony Mamaluke who quickly disappeared after his run in.  You get the sense that they were trying to recreate the Tajiri/Guido/Crazy three-ways, but with Psicosis in the Crazy spot, although he didn’t have the same smoothness or sharpness as Crazy.  That’s what being underutilized for years in WCW does to you!  The match was for the better when it was just Guido and Tajiri, even adding some new stuff to the regular.