Setting: ECW, Wonderland Greyhound Park, Revere, MA, November 23, 1996.
Axl Rotten no-showed, and Paul E. and Tod Gordon are trying to find someone to team with D-Von Dudley against the Gangstas. All of a sudden, Perry Saturn runs over with an idea.
SATURN: Boss, I know who to call. An old tag partner of mine, well, something happened in his last promotion and he could really use the work. He's not who you would think of when you think ECW, but, I'm sure he'll be happy for the opportunity.
PAUL E.: Call him, call him.
Saturn calls and it turns out this wrestler is all ready to go.
An hour later, the wrestler arrives at the building. Paul and Tod are surprised to see who it is. They explain the situation and find that, due to trademark issues, they have to bill him by his own name rather than the name he used when he was last on television six months earlier.
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ECW World Tag Team Championship: The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa Saied) (c) vs. D-Von Dudley and ???
BOB ARTESE: The following ECW World Tag Team Title match is scheduled for one fall.
(D-Von walks to the ring to no music)
ARTESE: Introducing first, from the South Side of Dudleyville, weighing in at 230 lbs., D-VON DUDLEY!
(Joey Styles wonders on the mic who D-Von's partner will be.)
(Ludwig Van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" plays)
ARTESE: And his partner, from Nashua, NH, weighing in at 250 lbs., PAUL LEVESQUE!
The crowd, after ten months of hearing Shane Douglas bitching about how the Kliq treated him, damn near boos him out of the building. Levesque enters the ring and he D-Von talk strategy.
AND HERE COMES NEW JACK!
Artese bails as the ECW World Tag Team Champions The Gangstas rush to the ring with the garbage can of plunder. It is a slaughter. Jack pulls out the X-Acto Knife and blades Levesque and generally beats the absolute hell out of him. After several minutes of mayhem, Mustafa powerslams Levesque and New Jack comes off the top with the 187 flying chairshot for the pin.
ARTESE: Here are your winners, and still the ECW World Tag Team Champions, THE GANGSTAS!
ECW World Television Champion "The Franchise" Shane Douglas makes his way out to the ring area and laughs as he sees the EMTs stretcher Levesque out of the building.
____________________________________________________________________________Set in a verse where WWE fired HHH after the Kliq Curtain Call at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1996, and WCW didn't want him back either. In real life, this was the night of the infamous Mass Transit Incident, where Axl Rotten no-showed and a 17-year-old kid named Eric Kulas who lied about his age and about his having been trained by Killer Kowalski got added as D-Von's partner. New Jack bladed him and generally beat the hell out of him. This way, instead of a 17-year-old kid being slaughtered, it's a 27-year-old wrestler who actually was trained by Killer Kowalski getting slaughtered. Same violence, more acceptable victim.