[2006-06-11-WWE-One Night Stand] Mick Foley & Edge & Lita vs Terry Funk & Tommy Dreamer & Beulah McGillicutty

[cactus]

This was originally meant to be just a 2 on 2 with the men, but after Beulah calls Lita a slut, she challenges Lita to make this a 3 on 3 match. Neat. The women don't really add much aside from Edge being able to score maximum sleaze points by pinning Beulah in a sexually suggestive pinning combination. They're mostly here to play off the ECW fan's misogyny and do the dreaded catfight spot. Mick Foley was on fire in 2006, and his pre-match promo shitting on ECW was brilliant. 61 year old Terry Funk can still go, he gets wrapped up in barbed wire, takes a fall of a ladder and even does a callback to his legendary empty arena fight with Jerry Lawler 25 years prior by selling his eye after he gets cut up. He plays off against Foley well and is adored by the ECW fans. The man's the GOAT for a reason. This was a chaotic hardcore brawl that's probably one of the best ECW matches out there, and it's under the WWE name!

★★★★½

[ShittyLittleBoots]

Foley's pre-match promo is pretty hilarious with his banter being lovely. LONG LIVE THE ALLIANCE. This match is just pure goddamn clunky chaos & it's so damn good! Funk & Foley going at it rules - Funk in general is such a madman here at 61 years of age with awesome punches, old-man hardcore insanity, huge bumps, awesome selling. What a GOAT. And I didn't even mention the "MY EYE" bit, which instantly reminded me of you know what. I love that man. All the barbed wire stuff, including the bats, the board, the FLAMING bat/wood/whatever it was that Funker brought -- it's all such gnarly, brutal, EXTREME stuff, if you will. Like I already mentioned, this thing is just pure uncoordinated-feeling having chaos & violence. It's one of the best matches each person involved here has ever been in. Long Live The Alliance, and long live this match. ****1/2

[Superstar Sleeze]

Mick Foley, Edge & Lita vs Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer & Beulah - ECW One Night Stand 2006

Mick Foley’s pre match promo is pretty funny saying he loved ECW under Stephanie McMahon and Long Love The Alliance. It doesn’t get as much as heat as you expect probably because it was actually funny. Beulah comes out to challenge for a 6-Person tag. 
 

Honestly you can JIP to the Barbed Wire Board I didn’t really think there was anything special in the beginning maybe some Terry Funk nostalgia spots. They suplex the barbed wire board onto Dreamer and business picks up. Foley eats it worse on a Funk trip. I thought Edge would at least blade. Foley gets revenge on Terry Funk who gave him a black eye by cutting him open near the eye. This leads to the call back to the famous Lawler match and the match is cooking now. Funk gets carried to the back. Customary Dreamer Testicular Punishment with Lita leg dropping a barbed wire baseball bat onto his nuts. Edge gets his sexual harassment with Beulah in an abdominal stretch. This was peak Edge as a character. The act with Lita was so good. They were such a good sleaze act. It is when he felt most main event. Terry Funk makes his triumphant return with a barbed wire 2x4 which gets lit on fire by Beulah! He attacks Foley with it who takes a nasty bump into the barbed wire board. Then Funk gets sent careening onto the board with Foley. We get the CATFIGHT~! Dreamer has his little run hitting DVD on Lita and the Barbed Wire Crossface on Edge. Edge uses the Barbed Wire across for what I think is Edgecution. Spear to Beulah with sexually suggestive pin for extra sleaze heat. They have to cut Funk out of the barbed wire in a cool visual.
 

The match takes a bit to get going but there’s a lot to love once the Barbed Wire gets going. Everyone plays their characters well Funk and surprisingly Edge are stand outs on the match. A good garbage match enhanced by the character work of everyone. ****