Top 5 Biggest Cross-Promotional Matches of All Time
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2. Taz vs Mike Awesome (ECW on TNT)
At Anarchy Rulz 1999, dominant champion Taz was shockingly eliminated in a 3-way dance just minutes in by Mike Awesome, who went on to win the match and ECW championship. Despite a brief title run by arch-rival Masato Tanaka, Awesome was a long-standing champion when he suddenly signed with WCW. Annoyed by the financial mishandling under Paul Heyman, the current champion went down to Atlanta, Georgia to see if the grass was greener in WCW.
Even appearing on WCW TV as the ECW titleholder, the company made little comment on Mike’s dominant reign in the ‘Land of Extreme’. With this scenario in mind, ECW and WWF worked together to get the belt off of Mike. Taz had signed with the WWF in late 1999, but the promotion allowed him to attend an ECW show to dethrone the mullet-wearing monster.
Taz, with his WWF theme, returned to ECW to dispatch Awesome in short fashion. Still with shenanigans galore, there was a ref bump and Tommy Dreamer DDT before the ‘Human Suplex Machine’ locked in the Tazmission to regain the belt. This meant that a WWF-contracted wrestler beat a WCW-contracted wrestler for the ECW title.
Ultimately, the current AEW Dark commentator was a transitional champion, dropping it to Dreamer 9 days later (who himself lost it later the same night when Justin Credible won it).
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