10 Most Unexpectedly Great WWE Matches-2

2. Beulah Vs Bill Alfonso (ECW’s As Good As It Gets 1997)

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ECW was known for the violence that they introduced to the mainstream wrestling world. They had quite the fair share of bloody brawls that would make people cringe to this very day. However, the bloodiest match in company history didn’t feature the likes of New Jack, The Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, Raven, or any of the other people you would immediately think of when this subject came up. That particular match featured a 110-pound woman that was pretty much nothing more than a valet, and a 160-pound (with bricks in his pockets) referee/manager.

As the story goes, ECW had themselves a “mole” in the locker room. This person would connect ECW wrestlers to WCW for contract discussions, allowing them to quietly and secretly prepare to “jump ship”. Bill Alfonso, known as Fonzie, was accused of being the perpetrator, and he was booked to be in the match with Beulah, who would beat him up and eliminate him before he was fired. Wrestling has long featured an unwritten rule of jobbing people out and/or embarrassing them before they’re set to leave a promotion or territory. It’s done to make them look weak, so that they’ll come across as “damaged goods” when they join their next promotion or territory. This situation was a twist on that, obviously.

With pretty much the entire ECW roster at ringside (under the guise of tending to an injured Tommy Dreamer, but reportedly as lumberjacks, of sorts, to make sure Alfonso didn’t escape his “punishment”), Fonzie and Beulah were left to go one-on-one. During the match, Fonzie bladed himself and cut a little too deep. He ended up with blood pouring out of him like a faucet. As the ECW fans worked themselves up into a rabid frenzy, Beulah continued to beat on Alfonso, as he just kept bleeding and bleeding. It was as high-drama as you could imagine, with Fonzie going above and beyond what was expected of him. He looked like a gunshot victim as Beulah hit him, tossed him into the crowd, beat him with things, and egged the crowd on. Whenever she would be on the receiving end of offense, it only incensed the crowd.

Their encounter only lasted a few, brief minutes, but Alfonso did enough to change Paul Heyman’s mind about firing him.