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Deep Impact (DVD) Description: This anthology
of wrestling mayhem from Extreme Championship
Wrestling promises an "emotional barbed wire
hell," and it delivers. In one gory match,
Terry Funk, whose specialty is taking more
punishment than any sane person could stand,
meets the evil and vicious Sabu in a ring
surrounded with barbed wire. In their battle for
the ECW World Heavyweight championship, it
doesn't take long for them to be smeared with
blood, beating the hell out of each other while
hopelessly entangled in strands of wire. It
eventually takes several men with tools to cut
them free as the announcer proclaims that the
action just witnessed is too brutal to ever be
shown on television. In another match Steve
Austin, before he became "Stone Cold"
and attained primetime stardom, battles in a
"three-way dance" with other notorious
bad asses Mikey Whipwreck and the Sandman. And
Mick Foley, in his "Cactus Jack"
persona, tangles with Terry Funk and gets burned
(literally).
Bonus footage
includes an "aerial war" between
Japanese and Mexican wrestlers that provides some
diversion from the usual hardcore brutality, and
in what's billed as the "Original
Catfight," bad girls Beulah McGillicuddy and
Francine drive the crowd wild by shedding all
civility along with most of their clothing. While
the production of this DVD is reasonably
professional, that doesn't detract from the
decidedly gnarly and low-rent feel ECW fans
adore. Fans of more tame and cartoonish wrestling
should be warned that the blood does flow freely
in some of these matches. --Robert J. McNamara
of Amazon.com
Matches include:
Mikey Whipwreck vs The Sandman vs Steve Austin;
Terry Funk vs Sabu; Taz vs Bam Bam Bigelow; Terry
Funk and the Sandman vs Cactus Jack vs Shane
Douglas; Masato Tanaka and Jerry Lynn vs Mike
Awesome and Justin Credible
BONUS DVD MATCHES:
Yoshihiro Tajiri vs Psychosis; Francine vs Belah
McGuilicuty; and promos by Cactus Jack and Steve
Austin (impersonating Hulk Hogan)
Starring: Taz,
Sandman, Terry Funk, ECW, et al.
Approximate
running time: 118 minutes
Rating: NR
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