The Tremendous Tirade: ECW on SCI-FI 2.05.08
Posted by Larry Csonka on 02.06.2008
The first ever Gulf of Mexico Match…at least it wasn’t a piñata on a pole match.
+++ECW on SCI FI 2.05.08+++
-Styles and Tazz are our announcers.
-We get highlights of last week's show.
~Party Crashing Punk Speaks~
CM Punk makes his way to the ring, and he's dressed to talk! Punk discusses the Championship Fiesta from last week. He wasn't invited to the party, so he invited himself. We see footage of the Fiesta and the debut of MARIACHI PUNK! Punk is rather proud of his fake mustache. He is using his rematch clause right here, tonight!
Chavo comes out now and dare I say is OFFENDED! Chavo says Punk will not get his rematch tonight, but he will get it at No Way Out. As for tonight, Chavo wants revenge for being embarrassed. He will let someone else explain how.
The Extreme Dictator Armando Estrada is on the screen and is currently outside of the arena. Tonight CM Punk will make history by facing Chavo in a "Gulf of Mexico Match." Shit I swear I am not making that up. Extreme rules, and the only way to win is to throw your opponent into the Gulf of Mexico.
Chavo says he is a warrior, a Guerrero and that tonight he'll leave Punk drowning.
Layla and Victoria w/Lena vs. Kelly Kelly and Michelle McCool
Kelly and Layla to begin, Kelly gets a muffed cartwheel deal in the corner, not off to the best of starts. Tag to McCool, rolling neck snap gets 2. Layla tags in Victoria, forearms by McCool and then chops. An Irish whip and a corner clothesline by McCool. She gets a run up in the corner and delivers a RANA for 2. That was cool. Victoria gains control, pulls some hair and McCool kicks her in the face as Victoria charges in on her. Kelly tags in, cross body off the top rope and gets 2. Kelly with a head scissors off the ropes, but then Lena interferes and that allows Victoria to get the Widow's Peak for the win as McCool attacks Layla and Lena on the floor.
Winner: Layla and Victoria @ 2:40 via pin
It wasn't horrible, Kelly is an athlete as is McCool. They are learning, but just getting a few "MOVEZ" down doesn't mean you're actually improving. Layla, Kelly and McCool still all need a lot of work on their basics. I am just glad no one is getting hurt.
Rating: *
-On Smackdown this Friday Shelton Benjamin and Kane will have a rematch.
-54-days to RASSLEMANIA~!
John Morrison w/The Miz vs. Tommy Dreamer w/Colin Delaney
I thought we were getting a tag match this week? Oh well. Colin is still wrapped up and gets his first TV entrance. The poor bastard, he'll need more tape for just walking to the ring.
Headlock by Dreamer to begin, off the ropes and a tackle to Morrison. Morrison fires back with an elbow, off the ropes and a hip toss and then an arm drag by Dreamer. To the corner, Irish whip and Dreamer gets a bulldog and cover for 2. Morrison trips Dreamer to the ropes, and then chokes him out with the boot. Morrison gets a dropkick as Dreamer was on the apron. Morrison to the floor, attacks Dreamer as Colin has to watch on. Mounted rights by Morrison, break dance leg drop gets 2. Kicks to the head by Morrison, and then into a million dollar dream. Miz talks shit to Colin on the floor as Dreamer fights back, but Morrison gets a neck breaker and covers for 2. Morrison to the corner, and up top…MISSES a corkscrew moonsault, and about landed on his HEAD! That had to suck. Dreamer runs wild and gets a cover for 2. Tree of Woe, Dreamer charges and nails the Miz who tried to get involved. Dreamer with a reverse DDT on Morrison, Colin tries to help but gets tossed down by Miz. Dreamer takes Miz out, but ends up taking the palace of wisdom (Morrison's spinning neck breaker) and Morrison gets the win.
Winner: John Morrison @ 4:30 via pin
They had a fine match and are using Dreamer to advance what they started with Colin. Morrison and Miz are the perfect assholes to play off of Dreamer's passion and Delaney's lovable loser character.
Rating: *¾
~A Sit Down With Stevie~
Styles had a chance to talk with Stevie Richards today. Styles discusses the throat surgeries he had. He got the injury in the original ECW, we see footage. He says that was very scary. To fix the neck, they had to go through the throat, which gave him paralysis of his vocal chords. He got an implant to help with that. He has had a total of 9-surgeries. Most of which in 2007. Styles asks why he wants to compete, and he says because he loves it. Next week he gets a chance to compete again, and he gets a chance to prove that he belongs. Damn fine interview, filled with real emotion. I always LOVED Stevie in the original ECW and still feels that he has something to offer. I hope he gets that chance.
Kofi Kingston vs. James Curtis
Curtis is the former KC James, who had a run on Smackdown. Lock up and they shove off. Lock up again and a side headlock by Curtis, off the ropes and he tackles Kingston. Kip up and an arm drag by Kingston. He keeps the arm bar, Curtis to his feet and front rolls and counters it, but Kingston lands on his feet and gets him back down into the arm drag and arm bar. Curtis fights back to his feet, pulls Kingston down by the hair and breaks the hold. Curtis works the arm of Kingston now, cranks the arm but Kingston rolls through and leaps to the apron, flips back in and rights to Curtis. He misses a leg lariat, but gets a back elbow. BO BO Leg drop and then leaps to the top, rights to Curtis, off of him and then gets the Cool Runnings for the pin.
Winner: Kofi Kingston @ 3:22 via pin
It was fine. Nothing was blown, but it was just a developmental match on national TV. The crowd likes his entrance, but they were scarily silent during the match. I liked the selection of James to work with him, as they likely worked together while Kofi was in OVW, but they need to do something to give us a reason to care about this guy and do it soon. Kofi has a ton of charisma, and is very athletic, but we have no reason to care.
Rating: *
Punk takes advantage of the, "come dressed as you are" line and wears a shirt and pants. Guerrero does the same. I appreciate the little things like that. They brawl to start and Punk tosses Guerrero to the floor. Punk has a tribute to Dusty going with the bandanna on his knee on top of the jeans. Dusty always did that to tape over the jeans. They brawl into the crowd, brawl some more and then Punk leaps off of the hockey boards onto Guerrero. He then slams him down and says it's time to go to the Gulf! They leave the arena and are presumably brawling through the building, but we can't see shit. We see them fight their way outside now and continue to brawl. A car pulls up and almost hits them and Guerrero tosses Punk onto the car, breaking the windshield. We head to a commercial @ 4:20.
Back from commercial @ 8:20 with both men brawling closer to the water. Punk scoops up Guerrero, and then slams him on the hood of a truck. Punk then backdrops Guerrero onto the truck, which is an Auto Glass truck as well, comedy you see. They are now fighting their way to the fishermen, who are remarkable calm in this situation. Guerrero is in control and starts yelling at Punk about earning a rematch. Guerrero gets a cooler and throws it at Punk. He didn't appreciate that and they brawl by the edge of the water. Kicks by Guerrero, he yells at Punk some more and then steps on his face. Guerrero goes for a suplex, but Punk escapes that and gets a GTS, and Guerrero takes an awesome bump into the water.
Guerrero swims comically as the show ends.
Winner: CM Punk@ 11:45 via tossing Guerrero into the Gulf of Mexico
That was very reminiscent on an Attitude Era hardcore rules match, but a fun one that didn't suck. Punk once again humiliates Guerrero, and you have to wonder what the family will have in store for him next week in return.
Rating: **¾
The Tremendous Tirade: The Punk/Guerrero feud continues. While it isn't bad, the repetition is starting to get to me. The match was good though, and thankfully different so that helped. Adding that match to the No Way Out card adds to an already strong card, so that's good as well. I liked the interview with Stevie, and I hope that he gets a chance at a decent run here in ECW. He never really got a chance I feel, and as I re-watch the older ECW stuff, I remember how talented he really is and see the potential still. The women still need a lot of work, and Kofi is floundering in my opinion. Morrison gets a win over Dreamer, and I am hoping for the tag match next week as I do like the Colin Delaney stuff. Not a bad episode of ECW in anyway, but not a great one either. It was good and a lot of fun in many ways. Basically watch if you want to, but if you miss it you really won't be missing that much outside of the main event and Stevie interview, which were both good.
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Posted By: stown (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 12:14 AM
The difference in the booking of Lagana from Rhodes is incredibly noticeable. The last few shows have been booked really well and I think WWE made a great decision in appointing Dusty to this position.
Posted By: Henry (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 12:29 AM
First time in Punk/Guerrero feud I enjoy a match from them.
Posted By: Guest#9028 (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 12:58 AM
Dude, it has been three weeks. Nothing about Kofi's silence was "scary."
Posted By: MDK (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 01:05 AM
I actually realized I was home on a Tuesday night, and turned it over to ECW right before the Dreamer-Morrison match. Good stuff, there.
I also enjoyed the interview, but wonder if they're actually going to end up doing something with Big Stevie Cool. I hope so, but hope in one hand, shit in the other...
As for Kofi, what the hell was that? That is not the type of match you need to put a new character in to get folks excited. Indy-style arm drags and emotion-less arm bars. Sorry, but Orton's the got claim to emotionless rest holds. And I really wanted him to give that guy a Frankensteiner after he was sitting on his fucking shoulders. Nice screw kick, though I don't buy it as a finisher. Maybe in time.
And that Punk-Chavito match was very reminiscent of the old Hardcore Title, especially the match where somebody got threw in one of the Great Lakes, I believe. Some body of water. Guess they really are trying to capture that old Attitude Spirit. Decent match for TV, but I never much cared for "walking matches".
I found this show more entertaining than the last Smackdown, but I suppose if I actually caught this show regularly, i might not have such a high opinion of this epsiode.
Boy, I wrote a book there...
Posted By: G-Walla (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 02:17 AM
The /wooo/ World Order wishes to state that we want Stevie Richards as ECW Champion. We will be satisfied if his reign is only for one show, so long as Stevie can retire with at least one reign as ECW Champion to his credit.
Posted By: /wooo/ World Order (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 04:25 AM
Chavo/Punk was like a much better version of Al Snow vs. Bob Holly at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1999, when they were in Memphis and ended up in the Mississippi river. Although, it lacked the post-match charm of Al trapped in a mesh shouting maniacally while the cameraman didn't think to help him.
Posted By: T.G. Corke (Registered) on February 06, 2008 at 06:21 AM
Crazy Mariachi! so finally the truth comes out!
Kelly Kelly needs to give up on her handspring elbow thingie, her flying crossbody was nice. Maybe now that Stevie is coming back young Elijah can have a ready made feud? The main event was a fun little match. Gotta appreciate Chavo's bump off the GTS.
Posted By: JMASCORPIO (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 09:02 AM
Kofi reminded me a lot of Booker T, actually.
Posted By: Bman (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 09:21 AM
Why doesn't the WWE get as much crap for putting on a no-build ridiculous gimmick match between one of their champions and his top contender as TNA does?
Posted By: DeimosMasque (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Masque, no build? It's about the 3rd or 4th match between the two in the last few weeks.
Are you stupid? TNA gets so much flak because they seemingly do it every week, the matches are awful (______ on a pole) and the booking as a whole makes no sense. In TNA, this feud would have STARTED with the Gulf of Mexico match, thats the difference. WWE may have stupid angles and gimmicks, but they follow a logical progression where TNA is very random, ignoring stipulations and title shots at will.
Posted By: dennett316 (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 12:10 PM
actually, kofi reminds me of eddie from tekken.
Posted By: sut (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 01:10 PM
The only problem I have with matches that WWE tries to sell as "street fights": the guys still throw the weak "clubbing blows" across the back. I just find it really hard to buy that they're fighting. It just looks like they're walking while pulling eachother's hair and occasionally smacking a forearm across the other guy's back. That's like my girlfriend and I going to the mall moreso than a street fight. I just had higher hopes for Punk as far as selling it as a "fight" than I do for most wrestlers that are put in this atmosphere; Chavo, in particular, is a submission/lucha wrestler, y'know? More weapons/objects strewn about their path may have helped.
Posted By: KanyonKreist (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 01:36 PM
I don't know if anyne noticed, but Chavo neglected to mentioned that he had never been bet at No Way Out. So it looks like we got a streak on the line...
Posted By: Tyler Moliterno (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 03:19 PM
I loved the main event. I seriously laughed EVERY time someone said the phrase "Gulf of Mexico" for the whole show because it was just that ridiculous. Good times.
Why is this entertaining and TNA would get crap? Because with TNA, this match would the 5th of 9 blow-off matches, would be held on PPV and wouldn't be as simple as "throw opponent into water".
"If your opponent is dunked 6 ft under, you win the match. Any less than that and he can try to pull you in for 20 seconds. If he does not succeed within 20 seconds, a chess board will be set up by Bob Backlund and the first person to beat Kevin Nash in 7 moves or less gets possession of the victory. The actual victory will then be suspended from the rafters and put on the line in an Ultimate X match on the next Impact."
Posted By: Jeremy (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 03:55 PM
I think that Kelly is improving a bit, in that she's willing to try more mores and is doing some of them well (her flying legsissors and that cross body were done perfectly) but She needs to get "Injuried" (kayfabe) and go back to OVW for at least two months. and Layla should stick to managing.
What was the point of having Lena there anyway? what's her role. She should stay in OVW or FCW for at least 6 months, same with that EVE girl on smackdown, Until you can be as impressive in the ring as you are walking down to it, your no good to wrestling fans. On that note, I like that Kelly was wearing somthing resembling wrestling gear tonight, it helped her look legit.
Posted By: Davy (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 06:12 PM
They needed a match, but they've already had how many in the past few weeks? Obviously then you've got to go to some gimmick, but you can't overshadow what's going to be on your PPV. Having the two brawl but neither get a proper win is pretty much solid booking, and they did it in an original and fun way, without resorting to a double DQ.
Posted By: Tom (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 07:22 PM
I didn't care much for the ending of the street fight. Typically, when Punk hits the GTS his opponent is knocked out cold. However, when he hit Chavo with it, he just fell into the water and started swimming and yelling. I just think it kinda no-sells the move. Sure he won the match with it, but I don't know. Maybe I'm being too picky. Show was great for an ECW show though.
Posted By: travis (Guest) on February 06, 2008 at 09:49 PM
Kofi is the man, but we just need a reason to care. I say start a program with him and Burke and let them help out each other....
Posted By: Industry (Guest) on February 07, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Travis, I think it's like when they through a bucket of water on someone that's knocked out. The ice cold water revitalized him (maybe I'm reaching). I guess they could have told him to try to drown himself...
Posted By: G-Walla (Guest) on February 07, 2008 at 02:18 PM
Two things spring to mind when I watched this week's ECW.
1) It's only a matter of time before Colin turns on Dreamer.
2) Kofi Kingston might be really interesting if they teamed him with Carlito and Armando Alejandro Estrada was their manager. Maybe they could kill Ron Killings a Caribbean gimmick and form a stable.
Posted By: Unright (Guest) on February 08, 2008 at 08:48 PM
I think team Kofi with Carlito and Umaga to form the new Islanders. Granded, they'd only be a third like the old Islanders... I guess you could add Finlay, too... what a rag-tag grouping that would be...
Posted By: G-Walla (Guest) on February 10, 2008 at 11:39 PM
I'm sittin' here at 5 in the mornin', just finished watchin' an episode of Pro Wrestling Ohio. Guess who's in the main event? Colin Delaney. The kid is pretty good. He did some pretty cool moves. Like grabbing his opponent like a fisherman suplex and did a spinnin' neck break (like Jimmy Rave, I believe) and did a front flip then grabbed his opponent for a sunset flip.
Posted By: Rick Landis (Guest) on February 11, 2008 at 05:43 AM
