#tazmaniac

Sabu defends the ECW television championship against the Tazmaniac in March of 1994! This was back when ECW was still Eastern Championship Wrestling, a regional independent promotion that was just starting to make waves within the industry for its down-and-dirty approach. Sabu and the Tazmaniac were two of the semi-unknown wrestlers who put ECW on the map on their early days. This match looks to be quite a bit more violent and out of control than any of their later matches. Tazmaniac takes out Sabu's handler 911 with a pipe before going to town on Sabu, who is still chained up Hannibal Lecter-style. Sabu rebounds and hits Tazmaniac with an Asai moonsault into the crowd. He misses a dive into the corner and takes a belly-to-belly suplex over the top rope and directly to the arena floor! Joey Styles makes a point to say on commentary that you will not see a match like this in either the WWF or WCW! Sabu misses a legdrop from the ropes and gets dropped with a nasty-looking head and arm suplex! He rallies back and tries to put Tazmaniac through a table, but misses again! Sabu's manager Paul E. Dangerously cracks Tazmaniac with his dreaded cell phone! Woman, who has been sent by Kevin Sullivan to keep an eye on Paul E. attacks the psycho yuppie from Scarsdale! Dangerously winds up to hit her with the phone, but here comes Kevin Sullivan to punch him out! Sabu is distracted by the shenanigans on the floor long enough for Tazmaniac to deliver a devastating half-nelson suplex from the top rope! The referee counts three and Tazmaniac is the new ECW television champion! We got off the air with Sabu moonsaulting himself through a table set up in the ring!