>>9102582Pat Tanaka vs Rocco Rock
>On the December 7th 1993, edition of ECW Hardcore TV, the teams agreed upon a "Body Count" match featuring Tanaka and Rock at the upcoming Holiday Hell supercard. The stipulation would be that their respective partners, Diamond and Grunge, would be locked in separate jail cells. Whoever won the match would be able to free their tag partner. The loser would witness their partner's jail cell explode, and if there was no winner after 15 minutes, both jail cells would explode.The explosion stipulation was likely borrowed from death matches commonly seen in Japanese hardcore wrestling at the time, which used C4 explosives.>The encounter took place on 26th December 1993, in front of 800 fans at the ECW Arena.The second-to-last match on the card, it was heavily hyped beforehand on ECW television. Match details, including what transpired and its duration, remain unknown. However, Tanaka picked up the victory via pinfall.On paper, he thus should have been able to rescue Diamond, leaving Grunge to his fate. In actuality, possibly because of kayfabe shenanigans, it was Diamond's cell that exploded.Ultimately, the "explosion" was deemed underwhelming. According to Diamond, ECW's Paul Heyman was not given permission to utilise special effects fireworks that would have created a bigger bang. Rather, paper was lit to create the smoke, and a recording of an explosion was used for the sound. The poor quality finish led to outrage from the ECW crowd, leading to boos and chants of "Money back!". Despite the poor explosion, Diamond was still forced to sell the effects of it, claiming it was the "most embarrassing situation I was ever involved in.”Joey Styles, the commentator for the show, summarised that “It went over like a fart in church.”
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