411's ECW on Sc-Fi Report 4.14.09

Posted by Michael Bauer on 04.14.2009

Kozlov makes his ECW debut, the Chase is down to two, and we have a real Match of the Year Candidate from ECW!

Welcome to the ECW on Sci-Fi! As always, I am Michael Bauer, your 411 ECW Re-capper.

Josh Matthews starts with WWE Draft post-hype before welcoming us and Matt Striker to ECW before Elimination Chase hype.

John Morrison vs. Evan Bourne

Morrison has no Miz and no Slammy Awards with him tonight because of the draft. We get highlights of Miz being drafted and breaking the team with Morrison last night. The bell rings and the lockup leads to a grounded go-behind by Evan Bourne, but Morrison powers out with an arm wrench. Bourne reverses using his quickness to get an arm wrench of his own. Morrison escapes with a knee to the gut and gets a headlock. Bourne shoves Morrison off, but he gets decked with a shoulder block. Morrison charges again, Bourne avoids it and get an arm drag takedown into a grounded arm wrench. Morrison backs Bourne into the corner for a break, but Bourne catches him for a quick near fall. Morrison chokes Bourne on the bottom rope and then starts kicking away. Bourne fights back, but Morrison ducks the step up enziguri. Bourne catches Morrison flush with a kick for two and then stomps away in the corner. Morrison whipped into the corner and Bourne charges. Bourne gets flipped over the rope and he lands on the apron. Morrison has his punch blocked, but he leg sweeps Bourne. Morrison runs off the ropes and charges the knee into the face of Bourne. Bourne collapses to the floor, Morrison rolls him in, and gets a two count. Bourne gets thrown into the corner and Morrison locks in a torture rack. Bourne escapes as he spins around into a headscissors!!! Holy shit!! Morrison to the floor, Bourne looks to charge, but Morrison dives in and hits a dropkick to the knee. Both men are down as we go to commercial at 5:30.

Back at 9:10 and Morrison has Bourne in a headlock, almost like a sleeperhold. Bourne gets to his feet and elbows out. Bourne lands some kicks to the leg, but Morrison hits a roundhouse to the head for a two count. Morrison just pounds away in anger and Bourne gets stomped in the gut. Bourne backed into the corner and Morrison pounds away, but Bourne fires back until Morrison locks in a version of a Crowbar. Morrison switches into a Chicken Wing as Bourne gets to his feet. After some struggling, Morrison grounds Bourne again as Bourne looks to be passing out. Bourne rolls around and frees an arm before charging into the corner to break the hold, hitting John's head on the turnbuckle., Bourne fights back and hits a huge clothesline, followed by a hurricarana. Bourne follows with a drop kick and leaping spin kick for a two count. Morrison whipped into the corner and he gets the foot up, but Bourne catches it and send Morrison up top before hitting a leaping hurricarana for two. Bourne leaped off the mat for that one. Bourne and Morrison reverses each other into some near falls. Morrison with a right hand and he goes to the ropes, but Bourne follows and both men gets dumped to the floor. The ref starts the count and Bourne rolls in Morrison. Bourne goes up top at eight and hits the flying knees from the top for a two count. Bourne hits a series of stiff kicks to chest. Morrison catches the third and tries for the Moonlight Drive. Bourne slips out and hits a knee to the face. Bourne sets Morrison in position and goes up top, but Morrison catches him with a enziguri and hits a Moonlight Drive from the top rope! Morrison gets the cover and the three count to end the match at 17:20 in an early Free TV MOTY candidate!

Winner: John Morrison

Match Rating: **** MOTY on Free Television by far this year. This match was nearly flawless and it shows exactly why Morrison was a former ECW Champion and why Bourne will eventually be some champion in the WWE.

Backstage, Vladimir Kozlov walks towards the ring as ECW's draft pick from last night.

Vladimir Kozlov vs. David Florea

David, it has been nice knowing you. The bell rings and David runs right into a boot. Kozlov just pounds with forearms in the corner and follows with a shoulder block. David hits one punch and goes to the second rope and leaps into a headbutt. Kozlov hits a fallaway slam and follows with a one handed chokebomb for the three count in under two minutes. After the bell, Vladimir grabs the microphone and starts speaking Russian with some American mixed in. Something about dominating everywhere else and now ECW will be dominated.

Winner: Vladimir Kozlov

Match Rating: ½* A pure DUD for a squash match.

Backstage, Finlay and Hornswoggle warm up for the Triple Threat Match.

We are back and we get a look at Triple H and Randy Orton, which Matt and Josh touch on before hyping the supplemental draft.

Backstage, Paul and Katie Lea are backstage worrying about the draft and the possible splitting of brother and sister. Jack Swagger walks in and says that since Superstars debuts this week, they should have a Q&A with Jack Swagger. She has a better idea and has the finals of the Elimination Chase scheduled instead. GREAT!!! But she does thank him and congratulates Swagger on an excellent match last night on Raw.

Elimination Chase Triple Threat Match - Christian vs. Tommy Dreamer vs. Finlay

Before this begins, I give two to one odds that Christian loses here and gets sent elsewhere in the supplemental draft.

The bell rings and Finlay kicks Dreamer in the gut and Christian follows up after Finlay. Finlay gets the advantage back and takes down Dreamer before hitting a hip toss on Christian onto Dreamer. Finlay covers Dreamer for two. Christian hits an inverted atomic drop on Finlay and Dreamer is back up. Dreamer whips Finlay into the turnbuckle, but he walks into a boot to the face. Finlay covers and gets a two count. Finlay hits an uppercut and keeps Christian out of the ring. Dreamer gets thrown into the corner again as Christian comes back in. Christian runs after Dreamer, but Dreamer avoids the contact and nails Finlay with a clothesline. Christian charges again and gets back body dropped. Dreamer hits a suplex on Christian for a one count. Dreamer lines up Finlay with a few punches as he backs to the ropes. Dreamer charges Finlay and clotheslines him and Finlay to the floor. Christian heads up top and hits a cross body onto both men as we go to a commercial at 3:45.

We return at 8:55 as Christian heads up top to just be thrown to the floor by Finlay. Finlay got thrown hard into the steel steps during the break. Finlay goes after Dreamer and locks in a chinlock as Hornswoggle is screaming something from the floor. Finlay throws Dreamer down by the head and gets a two count as Josh one-ups Striker on the rules of the match as there is no disqualifications. Dreamer gets locked in an arm bar, but Dreamer locks his hands and Finlay decides to go outside and nail Christian with a clothesline for some reason. Dreamer gets nailed with an inverted backbreaker for a two count by Finlay. Finlay goes back to the chinlock, but Dreamer escapes with a jawbreaker. Dreamer hits a body slam as Christian heads up top. Dreamer avoids the contact and drop toe holds Christian onto Finlay. Dreamer gets sent to the floor as Finlay and Christian clock heads as Finlay came off the turnbuckle. Christian heads up top, but Finlay catches him a now Dreamer is in. Finlay gets into a Tree of Woe as Dreamer superplexes Christian for a two count. Dreamer hits the basement dropkick, but Finlay is up fast enough to dump Dreamer to the floor. Christian gets hits with the rolling fireman's carry, but gets to the floor. Dreamer gets a DDT for two count on Finlay. Christian goes for the Killswitch, but he gets thrown into the ropes and he gets stuck. Finlay charges Dreamer, but he gets flapjacked into Christian. Dreamer goes for a school boy, but gets two. Finlay is up quickly and hits the Celtic Cross on Dreamer for the three count at 15:00. Dreamer is out of the Chase and my idea is so wrong.

Winner: Finlay
Eliminated from the Chase: Tommy Dreamer

Match Rating: **1/2 Pretty good match, even if it did feel a little disorganized.