Extreme Countdown (1997)

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Extreme Countdown 1997 was the third Extreme Countdown event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling which took place on 22nd June 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is the Extreme Rumble Match, in which the winner will be getting a ECW Heaviweight Championship shot at Wrestlepalooza. The Extreme Rumble has the same rules as the usual Royal Rumble but with only 20 men and the twist is that every single man has to bring a weapon of his choice

The main match heading into the show is Meng defending his ECW Heaviweight Championship against Bam Bam Bigelow. 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. Dreamer will face a way more pissed off Meng as since Fuck Mania III, Raven has kidnapped Meng's wife and Meng has beaten down Raven's Cult a lot more times since then

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 was pissed at this and challenged D-Von, Buh Buh and Big Dick to a gauntlet match as he wants to prove he can beat them

Taz is having fun destroying all of the midcard and that's the sole reason why he doesn't drop the title and go to the main event scene, he decided to make a triple threat NO1 contendership match between 3 guys who he hated and wanted to beat up, Lance Storm defeated Sabu and Jerry Lynn to get the match against Taz tonight

Sabu, Sandman and Tama won the 6 men tag team titles at Fuck Mania III, Shane Douglas's new group Triple Threat wanted a title shot but they will only give it to them if Douglas can defeat his former partner Sabu

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 Candido to get the match tonight

## Details

* Doug Furnas hits Buh Buh with a chair and Spike rolls him up to beat Buh Buh
* D-Von destroys Spike in their match, he elbow drops him through a table to pin him but he doesn't realize that his own shoulders are on the ground while Spike has one shoulder up so he manages to win
* Spike can barely get up and Big Dick defeats him in 14 seconds