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ECW, The Night The Line Was Crossed. Was this the first ever 3-Way Dance?

At a very tight stretch.As detailed in Turning The Tables (shill, follow link below, shill) it was the first singles match in the US where all three men were in the ring at the same time AND it could end via pinfall.* The first triangular match was in the late 1900s with people from three different styles of wrestling in a round-robin series.* Smoky Mountain had done a round robin series a few months earlier. Both Smoky Mountain and Mid-South had done multi-team matches.* There had been three-ways in Mexico and Canada.* The first US match to have three guys in the ring at the same time was in 1977 with Fritz Von Erich, Bruiser Brody and The Sheik, but elimination was by bodyslam only.
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When is American Dragon Vs Lance Storm being shown on TWC?Thanks!T

The show (Supercard of Honor) should theoretically be split between the week after next, and the week after that. However, it's possible Storm-Dragon will be cut from the TWC broadcast to try to boost DVD sales.
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ECW, The Night The Line Was Crossed. Was this the first ever 3-Way Dance?

At a very tight stretch.As detailed in Turning The Tables (shill, follow link below, shill) it was the first singles match in the US where all three men were in the ring at the same time AND it could end via pinfall.* The first triangular match was in the late 1900s with people from three different styles of wrestling in a round-robin series.* Smoky Mountain had done a round robin series a few months earlier. Both Smoky Mountain and Mid-South had done multi-team matches.* There had been three-ways in Mexico and Canada.* The first US match to have three guys in the ring at the same time was in 1977 with Fritz Von Erich, Bruiser Brody and The Sheik, but elimination was by bodyslam only.
All three men were not in the match all the way through though, correct? It started off as a regular match for fifteen minutes before turning into a three-way and one of the participants, (Sabu?) was taken to the back because of an injury at some point in the contest.
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Yep - it was Sabu v Douglas for the first 15 minutes, the deal being that if either man won, Funk would come in straight away for a straight singles match. Sabu was indeed taken backstage for part of the match, the story being that Douglas was the only one who worked the full hour.

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I understand that it was a work, and a pretty disgusting one, both morally and practically.Invader#1 drank a pint of pigs blood and downed vodka before the match, so he would vomit blood. Meanwhile the angle was that Hernandez was trying to get revenge for Brody's murder.

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So Invader #1 stabbed Bruiser Brody. What was the motive? And, in all these years, has noone tried to take even a small measure of revenge?

Funny you should say that, a friend of mine linked me to this just the other day. http://www.wrestlinggonewrong.com/video/ma...z_kneedrop.html
According to one shoot interview I heard, he was invited to Japan to wrestle for some company after he had killed Brody. It was a front for the Yazuka who wanted to kill him for killing Brody, he caught wind of the plan though and hightailed it straight out of the country.
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