Wrestlepalooza (1997)

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Wrestlepalooza 1997 was the third Wrestlepalooza event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling which took place on 31st August 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Meng defending his ECW Heaviweight Championship against Raven. Raven said 1997 would be his year, the year that he finally won the ECW title but instead of doing the hard work he decided that one of Raven's Cult members would become ECW champion first and then hand it to Raven, a threeway was made between the cult members: Tommy Dreamer, Kronus and Bam Bam Bigelow which Kronus managed to get the win, at Cyberslam Meng easily defeated Kronus. Raven made a match between Bam Bam Bigelow and Tommy Dreamer and Bam Bam won to become the next man to face Meng, at Fuck Mania III Meng defeated Bam Bam and Dreamer immediatly attacked him as he was next in line, Meng got increasingly more infuriated as Raven kidnapped Meng's wife and refused to show her, at Extreme Countdown Meng brutalized Tommy Dreamer while Raven won the Extreme Rumble to gain his shot. Raven has since revealed that Meng's wife has stockhold syndrome and made out with her, Meng was furious and this unleashed a Meng that hadn't been seen since 1991 as he has brutalized every member of Raven's Cult, Raven threatened to raven effect his wife if Meng got too close to him and last wednesday during their contract signing Raven said "fuck you and your wife" as he raven effect'd Meng's wife, Meng destroyed all of Raven's Cult and a lot of security while Raven ran away

Roadkill won a battle royal NO1 contendership to the TV Championship due to pure luck as everyone else eliminated each other and he was the last man standing with 0 eliminations, Taz is having fun in the midcard division destroying every member of it but even he has said that this isn't a worthy challenge for this type of show and expects someone else to step up other than the "guy who fucks chickens"

Ever since Spike Dudley debuted, all he has wanted is to get his family's approval but Dudley Boyz keep rejecting him not wanting to have anything to do with him, Spike continues trying to make them win matches but failing miserably as he gets thrown around like a ragdoll, he finally had an emotional promo saying he just wants to be acknowledged as a Dudley but D-Von and Buh Buh Ray put it to an end as they said he didn't belong to the family and out of everyone, he was the only accident. Spike challenged them to a 3 on 3 match and would team up with Can-AM Express but they were injured by Dudley Bros, this is now a 3 on 1 handicap match as Dudley Bros promise to put Spike out of action for good

Sandman, Sabu and Tama formed a group called "The OG's" as they became 6 men tag team champions, Shane Douglas recently made a new trio consisting of Justin Credible and Mikey Whipwreck as they wanted the titles, at Extreme Rumble Douglas defeated Sabu for his group to get a title shot tonight

Little Guido was bullied around by New Jack and eventually forced to be his tag team partner or he would be killed, New Jack ended up being suspended due to going off the script and trying to take the ECW title away from Meng at Hardcore TV 100 and in his offtime Guido joined up with Kid Kash who was way more supportive as both men wanted to revitalize the CW division. New Jack returned at the Extreme Rumble with a sledgehammer(he was prohibited from using the fork since his suspension) as he quickly eliminated both Kash and Guido. Jack didn't like how Kash "took his bitch" and wanted them in a handicap match, Guido stopped being a pussy as he started chairshotting Jack but would always fall down to him due to his fear

Tommy Dreamer challenged Lance Storm to a 1 on 1 because he wanted to "test something", their match ended with Meng's rampage as he unloaded on both of them, they agreed to a rematch here tonight but no one is sure of what Dreamer is testing

Chris Candido introduced his girlfriend Sunny to ECW which has been his biggest downfall as wrestlers keep flirting with her and getting her to show her tits to the audience, Rotten Balls in particular have gotten really flirty with her so Candido challenged either one of them to a match and he would put Sunny on the line, Balls Mahoney defeated Axl Rotten to get a match at Extreme Countdown but failed to beat Candido, Rotten now steps up to the challenge as he also wants Sunny

In the Extreme Rumble match there was a huge spot as Mike Awesome and Jerry Lynn climbed up a ladder and Awesome powerbombed him out of the ring in an amazing elimination that could've broke Lynn's back, Awesome tried to apologize but Lynn didn't want his apology, he wanted a match against him as they were both amazing wrestlers and had already had 1 match before which was a banger, Lynn has been on a streak of amazing matches on supershows and both men have been called the "future of ECW"

## Details

* Kash and Guido manage to steal New Jack's sledgehammer and Guido goes crazy with hits even managing to break the sledgehammer on Jack's back and Kash stops him from further injury, Guido pins Jack
* Buh Buh Ray, D-Von and Big Dick are destroying Spike sending him through tables when Big Dick sends Buh Buh onto the corner and beats up D-Von as he reveals himself as Spike Dudley's tag partner for tonight
* Roadkill comes out for his match when he gets attacked BY AHMED JOHNSON who now goes by Moadib, he says he's the challenge Taz demanded
* This is old school Meng, 1991 Meng as Raven barely gets any offense in with a pissed off Meng