Shane Douglas vs 2 Cold Scorpio (ECW - 5/11/96)

The story of this match is one that I love wholeheartedly. Two Cold Scorpio challenges Douglas to a title match, but since Douglas is upset at not winning the ECW World title, he dismisses the Television title outright and doesn’t want the title at all, even if he respects Scorpio. So Scorpio is determined to make Douglas respect the title. That’s a perfect way to bring importance to the secondary title, should you execute the finale correctly. One of the criticisms that I can throw at this is that it’s very self conscious. They go out to have a classic match. But fuck it, it’s a classic match. Self-conscious or not, it’s a real epic match. They not only go through the usual classic match moments notes, but they use that to tell the on-going story as well. The opening pure grappling stages were excellent and they built upon that, getting more and more aggressive, turning into a brawl when Douglas blasts Scorpio in the face with the chair. Douglas gets more frustrated with Scorpio and starts to cheat in order to win but Scorpio isn’t relenting and forces Douglas to fight and struggle to everything. I swear Douglas couldn’t even execute his Belly to Belly suplex until the end. This was a wonderfully executed match with great technical wrestling, great brawling, great bumps from Scorpio and Douglas and a great narrative from bell to bell. Douglas cuts a great promo afterwards, appreciating his win, putting over everyone, including Two Cold Scorpio and ECW, but Scorpio nails him anyway. Weird way to end the promo but the promo was great. Probably my favourite ECW match. ****1/2

I think it's the best Scorpio match.

The Windham one you mentioned is great. There's another one vs Eddy GUerrero I really like from 3 Way Dance 4/8/95.

Those would probably be my top 3. If I could only keep one, it'd be the Douglas match. It's such a great match even Joey Styles is good on commentary