Guilty as Charged (2000)

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Guilty as Charged (2000)
Promotion
Extreme Championship Wrestling
DateJanuary 9, 2000
CityBirmingham, Alabama
VenueBoutwell Memorial Auditorium
Attendance4,700[1]
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Guilty as Charged (2000) was the second ECW Guilty as Charged professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). It took place on January 9, 2000 from the Boutwell Memorial Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama.[1]

In the

The Impact Players (Justin Credible and Lance Storm) defeated Tommy Dreamer and Raven to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship, while Rob Van Dam retained the ECW World Television Championship against Sabu
.

Event

Preliminary matches

The event kicked off with a match between Mikey Whipwreck and C. W. Anderson. Lou E. Dangerously struck Whipwreck with his cell phone and Anderson delivered an Anderson Spinebuster to Whipwreck for the win.

Next,

The Dupps (Bo
, Jack and Puck) attacked Roadkill and Chetti until Nova and Doring chased them away with steel chairs.

Next,

Little Guido in a tag team match. Guido turned on Lynn by hitting a Sicilian Slice on Lynn and left and then Tajiri followed by delivering a brainbuster to Lynn for the win. After the match, Corino and Tajiri joined by Jack Victory and Tommy Rich, would attack Lynn and insult the fans and Dusty Rhodes. Rhodes would make his surprise debut from the crowd, attacking them until Rhino
beat him down. The locker room would empty to save Rhodes from Corino's entourage.

In the following match, New Jack took on Angel. The interference by Da Baldies allowed Angel to hit Jack over the head with a shovel for the win.

Later, Rob Van Dam defended the World Television Championship against Sabu, which stipulated that Sabu would leave ECW if he lost the match. RVD dropkicked the chair into Bill Alfonso's face when Alfonso tried to prevent RVD from using the chair. Sabu attacked RVD and attempted to hit a triple jump moonsault but RVD nailed the chair in Sabu's ribs and delivered a Five-Star Frog Splash to Sabu to retain the title.

kendo stick on Francine but Raven got in the way to save Francine and got hit with it. Credible then delivered a That's Incredible
to Raven to win the titles.

Main event match

Mike Awesome defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Spike Dudley in the main event. Awesome delivered an Awesome Bomb to Dudley from the top rope, through a table to retain the title.

Reception

John Powell of the SLAM! Sports section of

Canadian Online Explorer rated the event 4 out of 10, stating "ECW tried to mimic the competition cramming the show with more mike work than a livestock auction in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The outcome was a meandering pay-per-view bereft of any momentum or clarity. Even a high voltage Sabu - RVD bout couldn't save the show." He criticized the idea of the main event between Mike Awesome and Spike Dudley for the World Heavyweight Championship and did not consider Dudley, a deserving contender for the World Heavyweight Championship.[2]

Nick Sellers of 411Mania gave Guilty as Charged, a rating of 6.5, writing "The last three matches are all good examples of ECW's brand of wrestling, which in turn features some of the most notable workers of its existence. The world title match probably shouldn't have headlined the show, but Awesome's athleticism and Spike's stint as a crash test dummy were fun to watch. The TV title clash is balls to the wall action with some great gymnastry and the tag title bout had its fair share of good action. The rest is totally irrelevant and not worth tracking down. Even with that said, a PPV is only really as good as its headline matches, all of which delivered. Thumbs leaning up for the fun factor alone."[3]

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
Francine)
Tag team match for the ECW World Tag Team Championship9:23
7Mike Awesome (c) (with Judge Jeff Jones) defeated Spike DudleySingles match for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship14:10
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ^ a b "Guilty as Charged 2000 results". ProWrestlingHistory.com. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  2. Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original
    on May 19, 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  3. ^ Nick Sellers (February 21, 2013). "Canvas Critiques #3 – ECW Guilty as Charged 2000". 411Mania. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  4. ^ "ECW Guilty As Charged 2000 « Events Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database". www.cagematch.net. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
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