Anarchy Rulz (1999)

Anarchy Rulz (1999) was the first Anarchy Rulz professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). It took place on September 19, 1999 from the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois. The announcers for the event were Joey Styles and Cyrus.^[1]

Rob Van Dam versus Balls Mahoney was included on the 2005 WWE DVD release Rob Van Dam: One of a Kind.

Before the event aired live on pay-per-view, Danny Doring and Roadkill defeated Billy Wiles and C. W. Anderson in a tag team match.

Preliminary matches

The event kicked off with a match between

After the match, Simon Diamond cut a promo, bringing out Tom Marquez, the newest graduate of House of Hardcore. Jazz interrupted him and then Diamond insulted Jazz, leading to a match between Jazz and Marquez. Jazz nailed a Jazz Stinger to Marquez for the win. Diamond attacked Jazz after the match and Tony DeVito joined Diamond in the assault. Chris Chetti and Nova made the save, leading to them facing Diamond and DeVito in a tag team match. Danny Doring and Roadkill interrupted the match by attacking the competitors, resulting in the match ending in a no contest. A bunch of wrestlers tried to stop Roadkill and a brawl occurred until New Jack brought his trashcan of weapons and attacked everyone with the weapons.

Next,

Next, Sabu took on Justin Credible. After multiple interference by Bill Alfonso and Jason, Credible nailed a That's Incredible to Sabu on a steel chair for the win.

Later,

In the following match, Tommy Dreamer and Raven defended the World Tag Team Championship against Rhino and Steve Corino. Raven and Dreamer hit simultaneous DDTs on Jack Victory and Corino respectively and pinned them to retain the titles. Originally Corino was going to bring in the Insane Clown Posse as a surprise to face Dreamer and Raven. ICP's management pulled them from the show, resulting in the change to the card.

Main event matches

Arnold Furious of Wrestling Recaps wrote "Simply an incredible 3 hours worth of wrestling. If they'd actually booked matches for Dreamer/Raven v Corino/Rhino and Nova/Chetti v Diamond/partner then we'd be looking at one of the greatest PPV's ever. I can't praise this enough." According to him, the opening match between Lance Storm and Jerry Lynn and the two three-way dance matches were the best matches of the show.[2]

Scott Keith of 411Mania wrote "Two very good matches make it had to pass this one up, but Paul E's other booking is so crack-influenced at times that I have to wonder if he's actively trying to piss off certain portions of his audience."^[3]

Kevin Pantoja of 411Mania gave a score rating of 6.5 out of 10 as he wrote, "A good show from ECW with a great opener, two fun three way dances and a decent Television Title match. It's a historic show though as Mike Awesome wins the ECW World Title and wasn't even advertised to be on the show."^[4]

Results

Three-Way Dance eliminations

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References