ECW - Hostile City Showdown [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: The Dudley Boys, The Eliminators, Pitbulls: DVD

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Includes: Little Guido vs Mikey Shipwreck, Rob Van Dam vs Doug Furnas, Taz vs Tommy Dreamer (with Beulah McGillicutty) and more.

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4.0 out of 5 stars WRESTLING AT ITS BEST, 6 Jan 2002

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Hostile City Showdown '96 takes the viewer back to the murky ECW arena. There are countless chair shots throughout, a good number of tables destroyed and plenty of high-flying and intense hard-core wrestling.
On the minus side the sound is quite poor but apart from that this ECW event does not disappoint and the wrestling is top quality and is a must for any wrestling fan.

Super Nova Vs El Peurto : A Short match with high flying moves and interference from Saturn and Kronus who vicously eliminate them both.

The Eliminators Vs The Gangstas : Unfortunatly their street fight is short as the entire ECW locker room gets involved.

Dudley Boys Vs The Pitbulls : Fists and chairs fly everywhere as both teams fight throughout the arena. (Cool)

Taz Vs Dangerous Devon Storm : Storm seems to be a Sabu wannabe as he steals all his high flying moves. This is a great match where Taz belly to belly suplexes Storm over the ropes who misses the awaiting table and hits the concrete floor.

Little Guido Vs Axl Rotten : Nothing special but a good solid match.

The Bruise Brothers Vs The Sandman/Too Cold Scorpio : This match starts off a little messy but 'Too Cold' helps to make this match very entertaining with some high-flying action.

Tommy Dreamer Vs Prime Time Brian Lee : A real brawl around the arena with Tommy Dreamer on the recieving end of some big punishment at times, great stuff.

Sabu Vs Rob Van Dam : The match everyone was waiting for. Brilliant high flying action with both athletes pulling out all the spectacular moves. This match is the highlight of the DVD with great hardcore wrestling.

Shane Douglas Vs Raven : What a heavyweight title match to finish with. Theres some class in ring wrestling and an intense brawl throughout the ECW arena which even goes out into the car park. Plenty of chairs, a steal plate, a cain and even a cheese grater come into play in this fight.

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3.0 out of 5 stars ECW Hostile City Showdown '96, 20 Sep 2007

By	Paul Levy - See all my reviews

This ECW show took place at the ECW arena in September 1996 and like a lot of ECW shows from this era it combines jaw dropping bumps with sloppy wretling performed by barely talented performers. The opening couple of matches on the show are dominated by the tag team rivalry between The Gangstas and The Elimenators. New Jack opens up the show with a typically colourful and entertaing interview, which leads to a brawl between the two teams. The brawl gets broken up and then starts again during a match between Super Nova and El Peurto Ricano. It then gets broken up again after an arena-wide fight. This was a good, entertaining way to start the show. I always enjoyed the way ECW events would open by making the audience think that they had abandoned the format, and this chaos suited ECW well. After the brawl, the show reverts back to the format but the chaos continues.
The Dudley Boyz take on The Pitbulls in another arena-wide brawl. As chaotic hardcore wrestling goes, this was very well done, and the fan interaction alone makes it worth watching.
The show continues with Taz taking on Dangerous Devon Storm (Crowbar in WCW). This is a short match created to continue the Taz/Sabu rivaley as Devon Storm imitates Sabu all through the match. Badly. Despite some mistakes and an entirely unimpressive Sabu impression, this was a good piece of promotion for the classic Taz/Sabu match at Barely Legal.
Little Guido vs Axl Rotten follows. This is a pure filler match. Fine for what it is but don't expect much.
The Bruise Brothers take on The Sandman and Too Cold Scorpio in a tag match. Sloppy match. Too Cold is the only talented wrestler in the ring and he has spent most of his career underachieving. Just poor.
We get the first of the big rivalry matches on the show next when Tommy Dreamer takes on Brian Lee. Another ECW hardcore brawl. Fine, but all this hardcore stuff does get old after a while.
The most anticipated match on the card is Sabu vs RVD. A very good match with some amazing bumps, this is the best of their original run of matches in 1996. It still has some embarrasing mistakes as all of their matches did, but the bumps make up for it. It also has a much better flow then the other matches in this rivalry.
Finally, in the main event, Shane Douglas takes on Raven for the ECW world title. A slow match at first, it picks up towards the end with some false finishes and outside interference without overdoing it.
On the whole this is an entertaining show but is really nothing remarkable. I have not seen many of the early ECW shows, and am discovering them for the first time now. Inconsistent, but good.