Extreme Nation - ECW on TNN recap for December 24, 1999

Joey Styles and "The Quintessential Studmuffin" Joel Gertner welcome everyone to tonight's show. Suddenly, Cyrus shows up and demands a re-do on the opening, as the office hated it. He likes Styles' part, but not Gertner's "dirty middle name," saying the office and the people are not buying and that he needs to do something fresh. Gertner tells Cyrus his dry Canadian humor is running thin and that there is no office. Suddenly, Cyrus reveals he works for TNN, not ECW, and tells Gertner to work on his shtick before introducing Masato Tanaka, who is seen sitting in the front row. Tanaka stands up, then "Judge" Jeff Jones shows up. He says that if anyone, whether it be Spike Dudley or Masato Tanaka or anyone in between, wants a shot at Mike Awesome and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, they have to go through him. Spike Dudley shows up and hits Jones with a discus forearm before planting him into the mat with the Acid Drop. Mike Awesome then gets into the ring, forearms Spike, then tosses Spike into the front row where Masato Tanaka is sitting. Masato Tanaka jumps in the guardrail and gets in the ring with him, and both men fight. Security quickly moves into place to stop the brawl as soon as it starts, and Paul Heyman deamdns they wait for next week, but Cyrus tells Heyman that they built the company by giving the people what they want, and tells him to "have some balls" for the company. Paul Heyman makes the match official for right now.

Masato Tanaka beats Mike Awesome to become the ECW World Heavyweight Champion! After the match, Mike Awesome extends his hand, and both men shake hands before Mike Awesome personally places the ECW World Heavyweight Championship around Masato Tanaka's waist and raises his hand in victory before clotheslining Tanaka and hitting him with an Awesome Bomb through another table. The crowd chants "Awesome sucks!" as the locker room tends to Tanaka.

Mike Awesome confronts Cyrus backstage, pinning him to the wall and telling him that he not only does not care about the ratings, but he is going to "fuck things up" between ECW and FMW (Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling) by killing Masato Tanaka next week. Cyrus tells him that he does not have to wait until next week as Tanaka is right outside. This causes Mike Awesome to let go of Cyrus and run out of the dressing room, with "Judge" Jeff Jones not far behind. Cyrus has to get a drink of water afterwards.

Before the next match, Rhino, Steve Corino and Jack Victory come out of the locker room, with Jack Victory carrying a bloodied steel chair and Rhino sporting a bloodied right hand. Rhino guarantees Steve Corino that nobody will bother him again. Corino says it does not matter if it is Limp Bizkit, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes or Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney: nobody upstages him. Jack Victory asks Corino if he has seen his wheelchair, then a bloodied Axl Rotten is seen crawling out of the locker room saying he will get them and kill them.

Super Crazy beats Ikuto Hidaka.

Mike Awesome confronts Lou E. Dangerously, then looks for Paul Heyman. "Jedge" Jeff Jones mentions being hit by the Acid Drop by Spike Dudley, and says he is the reason for Mike Awesome's success. Mike Awesome grabs "Judge" Jeff Jones, pins him to the wall and dares him to repeat that statement, and tells him that he will rip his throat out if he ever says it again.

We see The Impact Players (Justin Credible and Lance Storm). They say the clock is ticking and time is running out, and they will commit any crime to take the ECW World Tag Team Championships away from Raven and "The Innovator of Violence" Tommy Dreamer at Guilty As Charged. We then see Da Baldies (Angel, Tony DeVito, Vic Grimes) attack a fan at ringside, then The Impact Players run into the ring and attack Raven before Da Baldies lay out Dreamer. Raven gets handcuffed to the entrance, then Justin Credible canes Raven in the head before saying "Quoth the Raven, never again!" Dreamer manages to crawl up the aisle and tend to Raven to end the show.