Living Dangerously (2000) was the third and final

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(PPV)

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produced by

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(ECW). It took place on March 12, 2000 from the

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. The commentator for the event was Joey Styles. The

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was a tournament final match for the vacant World Television Championship, which had been vacated by previous champion

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due to an injury.

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defeated

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to win the vacant World Television Championship. On the

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retained the World Heavyweight Championship against

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and The Impact Players (

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and

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) won a Three-Way Dance match to win the

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Event

Before the event aired live on pay-per-view,

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defeated Pitbull #1 in a non-televised match.

Preliminary matches

The event kicked off with

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insulting The Sandman's wife Lori Fullington, prompting Sandman to come to the ring to fight Corino but

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attacked Sandman and Lori until

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made the save and it led to a Texas Bullrope match against Corino. Rhodes hit Corino with a chair and delivered an

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to win the match. Next,

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competed against The New Dangerous Alliance ( C. W. Anderson and Bill Wiles). Roadkill was about to hit an '' Amish Splash'' on Wiles but Elektra

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ed on Roadkill as she crotched him on the top rope. Lou E. Dangerously hit Doring with his cell phone and Anderson nailed an '' Anderson Spinebuster'' to Doring for the win. Next,

was scheduled to compete against

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(w/ Mitch & "The Prodigy" Tom Marquez). However,

came out threatening violence. This chased Diamond away from the ring while Kash attacked Awesome from behind to begin a match between Awesome and Kash for the World Heavyweight Championship. Awesome delivered an '' Awesome Bomb'' to Kash through the table to retain the title. After the match,

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checked on Kash until Diamond ordered

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to attack her.

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and Chris Chetti made the save and this led to them competing against Jado and Gedo. Nova and Chetti hit a '' Tidal Wave'' to Gedo for the win.

advanced to the final of the World Television Championship tournament as The Sandman was unable to compete due to being attacked earlier in the show and taking his wife to the hospital.

competed against

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in the only semi-final death match. Sal E. Graziano interfered in the match but Crazy removed him by hitting a

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. Crazy followed by

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ing Guido onto a

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and followed with a springboard moonsault to win the match and advance to the final round. Next,

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took on

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. Mahoney delivered a ''

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'' to Kanemura on a steel chair for the win. After the match, Da Baldies attacked Mahoney until

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made the save and attacked Da Baldies with various weapons, leading to a match between Jack and Baldies member Vic Grimes. The action spilled to the ringside and they brawled with each other throughout the arena. The two then climbed the top of a steel structure and, in one of the most dangerous spots in the history of ECW, fell off it onto two tables. Grimes landed hard on Jack's head, which gave Jack a wound in the forehead, brain damage, a skull fracture and permanent blindness in his right eye. The penultimate match was a

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, in which Mike Awesome and

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defended the

against

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and

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and Impact Players (

and

). Tanaka nailed a '' Roaring Elbow'' to Awesome for the first elimination. The action then continued between the remaining two teams. The Impact Players delivered a '' Deep Impact'' to Dreamer to win the titles.

Main event match

The main event was a tournament final for the vacant World Television Championship between Super Crazy and Rhino. The

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was knocked out when Rhino pulled the referee in front of Crazy's moonsault.

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interfered in the match by spitting

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into Crazy's eyes. Rhino and Tajiri double teamed Crazy until

, Scotty Anton and Bill Alfonso made the save. The injured RVD broke a crutch on Rhino's back while Anton attacked Tajiri. RVD drove Rhino through a table with a flapjack and Crazy hit a moonsault on Rhino to win the vacant title. After the match, The Network attacked Crazy, RVD and Anton until The Sandman made the save by clearing Network.

Reception

According to Bob Colling of ''Wrestling Recaps'', "this show consists of several matches that were decent but nothing stands out as great or really all that good. You can certainly skip this pay per view as you wouldn’t be missing much." Scott Keith of ''411Mania'' wrote "Can’t go any higher than thumbs down for this one, given the lack of payoff, entertaining matches, good booking or common sense, despite the usual hard work from the participants." Nick Sellers of ''411Mania'' wrote "There's good, there's average and there's absolute idiocy on this show. The ECW vs TNN stuff was actually done well, but apart from the TV title stuff the rest of it fell a bit flat by comparison. And then there's THAT New Jack/Grimes scaffold dive, which was reprehensible. Apart from those, and the midcard starting to get formulaic, there's still that intangible ECW fun factor attached to the show and the crowd is hot throughout, and those two elements alone always make their shows easy viewing. Call it somewhere in the middle."

Results

Tournament brackets

Three-Way Dance eliminations

References

External links

Living Dangerously 2000 results
{{2000 ECW pay-per-view events Living Dangerously Professional wrestling shows in Connecticut Danbury, Connecticut 2000 in Connecticut March 2000 in the United States 2000 Extreme Championship Wrestling pay-per-view events