CyberSlam (1999) was the fourth

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event produced by

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(ECW). The event took place on April 3, 1999 in the ECW Arena in

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. Eight professional wrestling matches took place at the event. The

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was an

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, in which former tag team partners from The Gangstas, New Jack and Mr. Mustafa competed in opposing teams. Jack teamed with The Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks (

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and

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) and Mustafa teamed with The Dudley Boyz ( Buh Buh Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley). Mustafa and Dudleys won the match. On the undercard,

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retained the

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against

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and

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retained the ECW World Television Championship against 2 Cold Scorpio.

Storylines

The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television program '' Hardcore TV''. At ''Crossing the Line'', Mustafa Saed made his surprise return to ECW on behalf of New Jack to confront The Dudley Boyz ( Buh Buh Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) until he

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ed heel on Jack by smashing a guitar on his head and revealed himself to be the mysterious benefactor who wanted to run

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and New Jack out of ECW. Saed then allied himself with the Dudleys to feud with Jack. At Living Dangerously, Jack defeated Mustafa in a match. At Living Dangerously,

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and Shane Douglas defeated The Impact Players ( Lance Storm and Justin Credible) in a tag team match. After the match, Cyrus the Virus made his ECW debut and distracted Dreamer and Douglas to allow Impact Players to attack them. On the April 2 episode of ''Hardcore TV'', Credible helped Storm in defeating Dreamer in a match.

Event

Preliminary matches

The event kicked off with a match between Jerry Lynn and

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. Lynn hit a

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for the win. After the match, Lance Storm cut a promo in the ring to testify against

's claims that Storm took steroids and Storm brought a sample of urine to prove and challenged Dreamer to provide a sample of his urine test and Dreamer showed up to attack Storm with a DDT and poured the urine on Storm. Next,

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competed against Rod Price.

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interfered in the match by attacking Nova on behalf of Price and then Nova's tag team partner

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also got involved, making it a tag team match. Nova and Chetti nailed a ''

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'' to Price for the win. After the match, Crush attacked Price with a jumping DDT. Next, Mosco de la Merced made his ECW debut against

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. Crazy hit a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and a frog splash to Merced for the win. In the following match,

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made his return to ECW against Papi Chulo, who made his ECW debut in the match. Michinoku nailed a ''Michinoku Driver 2-B'' to Chulo for the win. Next,

defended the World Television Championship against 2 Cold Scorpio, who made his surprise return to ECW. Sabu interfered in the match and hit an '' Arabian Facebuster'' to Scorpio through a

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outside the ring. After a back and forth action, Scorpio seemed to have the match won as he climbed the top rope for a ''Scorpio Splash'' but Bill Alfonso crotched him on the ropes and held a chair, allowing RVD to hit a ''Van Daminator'' and a ''Five Star Frog Splash'' to retain the title. Later,

returned to ECW and cut a promo, in which he issued a challenge to

to a

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for the World Heavyweight Championship, which Taz accepted. After brawling throughout the ringside, Taz nailed a ''Tazmission-Plex'' to Candido through a table which injured Candido's neck and the referee stopped the match, awarding the win to Taz. After the match, Candido was being carried away to the backstage on a stretcher but Tazz dragged him and tossed him into the ring and applied a ''Tazmission''. In the penultimate match, Shane Douglas took on Justin Credible. Douglas tripped Credible from the top rope and delivered a '' Pittsburgh Plunge'' for the win. After the match, Lance Storm joined Credible in attacking Douglas with a

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. Tommy Dreamer attempted to make the save but he was also attacked with the kendo stick.

Main event match

New Jack and The Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks (

and

) took on The Dudley Boyz ( Buh Buh Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) and Mr. Mustafa in an

. Mahoney shot a

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into Mustafa's face but it distracted him enough for Dudleys to nail a ''3D'' to Mahoney for the win. After the match, Rotten and Mahoney locked Mustafa in the cage and laid him on a table and Jack hit a diving splash to Mustafa from the top of the cage onto the table.

Reception

Bob Colling of ''Wrestling Recaps'' wrote "This is a really good show. I’d say six out of the eight matches had entertaining qualities. The show had fast paced contests and a good battle between Douglas/Credible. Also, the segment with Storm and Dreamer was nicely done and advances their feud. This is probably one of the better ECW shows I’ve ever watched and it only took me almost thirteen years to watch. Cyber slam ‘99 gets a thumbs up from me." ''The Wrestling Revolution'' staff praised the event, writing "This was a very good show from ECW. We got solid action all up and down the card, some big angles in both the Dreamer vs. Storm and Taz vs. Candido feuds, and a big blow-off in the main event." Peter Kent of ''411Mania'' rated it a score of 3, stating "This is certainly not an essential show, with no real standout matches. Mostly filler fodder. But Douglas vs Credible was much better than expected and Tajiri/Lynn was really cool" James Bullock of ''Capricorn City'' wrote "There’s some good stuff here, that’s for sure. But nothing here is must-see. The crowd truly did take something away from this show, but you can’t blame them for becoming desensitized. Check it out if you want to, but don’t get your hopes up about seeing something special."

Aftermath

The matches of the event aired in syndication on the April 8, April 15 and April 22 episodes of ''Hardcore TV''. Shane Douglas and Tommy Dreamer continued their feud with The Impact Players (Lance Storm and Justin Credible) after CyberSlam. On the April 29 episode of ''Hardcore TV'', Dreamer defeated Lance Storm in a match. After the match, Storm and Credible double teamed Dreamer until Douglas made the save but he was attacked as well. Douglas would then suffer a broken ankle, which put him out of action and led to his departure from ECW. Dreamer wrestled Storm at Hardcore Heaven.

Results

References

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