Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Nutter Center
Dayton, Ohio
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Mick Foley pumps up the WWE locker room and Rey Mysterio agrees? Paul Heyman is now getting the ECW locker room ready.
Jerry Lawler and JR are here, as are Joey Styles and Tazz. Tazz talks trash to Lawler and they almost get into it.
Rey Mysterio vs. Rob Van Dam
Yes, please. RVD hits a military press into a standing moonsault and the crowd loves that. RVD avoids a 619, but then gets dropkicked off the apron. On the outside, RVD goes for a guillotine leg drop on the barricade, but Mysterio avoids it. Mysterio climbs up to the ring and hits a leap into the crowd. When we come back from commercial, Mysterio goes for his variation of the bulldog, but RVD crotches him on the top rope. RVD climbs to the top and hits a single leg kick, knocking Rey to the floor. RVD this time hits the guillotine leg drop and gets a 2 count. RVD hits a skateboard kick with a steel chair in Rey's face and gets another nearfall. RVD misses a monkey flip attempt and Rey hits a second rope bulldog onto a steel chair for a 2 count. Rey goes for a springboard leg drop and RVD moves out of the way. RVD sets the chair on top of Rey, but he moves that out of the way just before RVD hits the 5 Star Frog Splash and RVD gets the victory. That was a weak finish to an otherwise good match.
Match Rating: ***
Kurt Angle is here and he says that he wasn't upset that Randy Orton RKO'd him in his hometown on Monday. He loved when he got to snap Orton's ankle in two. He's glad that Orton accepted his challenge for One Night Stand and out comes Orton. Orton says he feels sorry for Angle, who went from headlining WrestleMania to ECW. Orton then says that his contract has expired and that ECW's Angle will be facing Monday Night Raw's Randy Orton. They go back and forth and end with Orton saying he's going to kill the legend of ECW.
Mickie James vs. Jazz
I never liked Jazz's entrance music. Jazz hits a dropkick and Mickie rolls out of the ring. Jazz hits a running dive from the apron onto Mickie. Jazz hits a X-Factor, but Mickie grabs the bottom rope. Mickie hits the spike DDT and gets the victory. Did Jazz make another appearance after this? I feel like this was it. This match had about 5 moves, making it hard to rate.
Match Rating: 1/2*
We get a Sabu hype video.
John Cena is backstage with Todd Grisham. Cena tries to hype up that the WWE Championship will be defended for the first time ever at an ECW show. Cena talks about how the crowd will be as hostile as ever at One Night Stand. He says he could be worried, but he will fight like a man instead.
Paul Heyman is in the ring and talks about Tuesday being the debut of ECW on SyFy. I guess it was still Sci Fi at this time. He then runs down the card for One Night Stand. We then get highlights of last year's One Night Stand.
Angle gives a speech in the locker room before the battle royal. Big Show gives a calmer speech about WWE showing ECW who they are.
WWE vs. ECW Battle Royal
The WWE guys all get their own entrance and the ECW guys go the way of the Patriots and all come out together. Mark Henry for some reason is the first man eliminated from the match. I'm not sure why they even put him in this match to be honest. Tommy Dreamer eliminates Tatanka. Things you thought you'd never type in 2006. I'm not really sure why Dreamer and Edge are in this, considering they have a match tonight. Edge has sat out of the ring during the match, occasionally jumping on the apron. Terry Funk rushes at him and Edge dumps him over. Al Snow grabs Head, but misses with the swing and Shelton hits him with a kick to the head and sending him over the top. The two final ECW competitors are Angle and Sandman, while there is also Orton, Big Show, Finlay, Edge and Shelton. Orton dumps out Sandman and then Angle eliminates Shelton. Show goes for a chokeslam on Angle, but he counters and hits an Angle Slam on Show. Finlay attacks Angle from behind and hits a couple of clotheslines. Angle hits a catapult on Finlay and he's gone. Edge tries to sneak in, but Angle hits a belly-to-belly overhead throw to get rid of him. Orton gets rid of Angle and WWE is about to be announced the winner. Big Show rips off his Raw shirt and has a ECW shirt on. He tosses Orton over the top rope and ECW is announced as the winner. As far as TV battle royals go, this wasn't too bad. They got rid of guys pretty quickly and had the swerve finish to make it feel like it at least had a point. After the match, Angle and Show embrace.
Match Rating: **1/4
Edge shows Foley a Cactus Jack promo on the video screen.
Edge vs. Tommy Dreamer
Edge has a chair and Dreamer has a barbed wire baseball bat. Dreamer knocks the chair out of his hand and Dreamer loses the weapon shortly after. Dreamer instead hits him with a road sign back in the ring. Lita grabs Dreamers leg and Edge hits him in the head with the sign. Edge hits a drop toe hold into a chair. Edge hits Edgecution into a trash can, but Dreamer kicks out at 2. Dreamer fights back with a kick to the crotch and then hangs Edge in a tree of woe. Dreamer stands on Edge's balls and hits him with a kick into a chair to the face. Dreamer goes under the ring and grabs a table. Dreamer sets it up and then sets Edge up on the top rope. Lita comes in and hits Dreamer with a kendo stick. Funk grabs Lita by the hair and in comes Foley and puts barbed wire around Funk's neck. Edge goes for a powerbomb, but Dreamer counters with a back body drop and Edge misses the table and his leg hits the table. Dreamer then hits the Dreamer Driver through the table, but Lita hits him with the kendo stick. Dreamer goes for a powerbomb, but Edge hits him with a Spear and gets the victory. Funk and Foley are brawling on the outside. Funk busts him open the hard way and that's all. This was a pretty good match that got better as it progressed.
Match Rating: **1/2
We come back from commercial with Foley sitting in a chair for a promo. He talks about loving ECW, but ECW didn't love him back. This is your classic passionate Foley promo putting over his match at One Night Stand. This was very good and then it leads to Tazz and Lawler getting into it again. Tazz attacks Lawler and they start brawling on the announce table. This was surprisingly intense, considering Lawler's age. As they are breaking it up, Styles knocks off JR's hat and JR looks legit not happy.
When we come back from commercial, they are back in their spots and JR is just trying to get through the show. This leads to a RVD/Cena hype video.
John Cena vs. Sabu
Sabu goes down the wrong way to the ring and it exposes all the tarped off seats on the TV side. That pretty much sums up Sabu as a performer. Cena dominates the early portion of the match until Sabu dumps Cena out of the ring. Sabu hits a springboard somersault dive onto Cena and then throws a chair at Cena. Sabu uses the chair some more and throws him into the steps. Sabu hits a leg drop off the announce table and throws him back in the ring. Sabu jumps off a chair in the corner, but Cena catches him and hits the FU. He slaps on the STFU and in comes Big Show, causing a DQ finish. The battle royal wrestlers all run into the ring and we have a big brawl. The crowd doesn't seem into this at all, which is somewhat surprising. The match was decent enough, but was really just here to set up the brawl at the end of the show.
Match Rating: *3/4
I really enjoyed this show. I thought it was very focused on the task at hand and delivered. Really the only thing that felt out of place was the women's match, which is a shame because they could have had a good match. Otherwise, this was one of the better TV episodes of the year up to this point in 2006.
Overall Rating: 71%
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