Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Sovereign Bank Arena
Trenton, New Jersey
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Paul Heyman is here to introduce Rob Van Dam. He talks about One Night Stand and Heyman hands him the new ECW Championship. Edge is out to try to make things interesting here. Edge says that he respects RVD and that they have more in common than he probably thinks. They are both Money In The Bank winners and both had to work their way to the top. Edge shakes his hand and then of course hits him with a Spear. Edge retreats through the crowd, but Cena is there to attack him. The three men start to get into it. Cena then hits Heyman with a big right hand and the ECW locker room comes out to check on him.
After the break, Heyman is handing out the Kool Aid to the locker room and says that they will be invading Raw this week.
The Zombie vs. Sandman
As I look up who played Zombie here, it sounds like he sadly passed away 6 years ago. He grabs the mic and starts grunting. Out comes Sandman through the crowd, as Joey Styles reminds us of how terrible of a person he is. Sandman attacks him with the kendo stick and hits a side Russian leg sweep for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Kelly introduces herself and she's an exhibitionist, which means she's going to take off all her clothes tonight.
They show us the entire match of Jerry Lawler vs. Tazz at One Night Stand.
Kurt Angle vs. Justin Credible
Angle quickly takes down Credible and hits him with a forearm. Angle hits a German suplex and then dumps him over the top rope. Angle hits a headbutt and puts Credible in a chokehold for the victory. This was just to establish Angle as a machine and to remind us that this is very much a WWE program.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Angle grabs the mic and accepts Orton's challenge at Vengeance and he'll make him tap out.
Paul Heyman says he's throwing out the plans for the rest of the show and he's going to have an Extreme Battle Royal. The winner of the match will face John Cena at Vengeance.
Kelly says she's next.
They then show a vampire outside the arena, who of course is Kevin Thorn.
They now introduce Kelly, this was the prequel to Kelly Kelly. She starts dancing and stripping down. She covers herself and that's it. I thought this was the Mike Knox introduction, but I guess not?
Extreme Battle Royal
The competitors are Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, Al Snow, Danny Doring, Amish Roadkill, Stevie Richards, Balls Mahoney, Tony Mamaluke, Little Guido, Big Guido and Big Show. This of course is supposed to be 10 men, but if you can count, that's 11. Weapons are legal here. When we come back from the commercial break, the weapons are all being used in the ring. Sabu sets up a table outside the ring. A bunch of the guys work together to hit Show with weapons. Al Snow grabs Head, but Show blocks it and he drives Snow out of the ring. Doring is next and he's gone. Show then tosses Richards and Roadkill out. Show hits his new move, but Balls barely gets up for it and the Show throws him out. Dreamer starts smashing Show with a street sign to slow him down. Sabu goes for Air Sabu off Dreamer's back, but Show catches him and tosses. Sabu hangs on, but Show then throws Dreamer through the table outside the ring. Show chokeslams Little Guido on Mamaluke and he then throws out both of them. Big Guido now stands toe to toe with Show. They start brawling and Guido is quickly eliminated. Guido holds onto Show's arm and Sabu comes from behind and hits him with a chair to eliminate him. Sabu will take on Cena at Vengeance. That felt really rushed and that like no one mattered outside of Show and Sabu. In hindsight, they never ended up booking any of the others like they mattered, so it's not surprising now. The match was fine for a battle royal, but hardly anything to get you talking about the first episode.
Match Rating: *
This was not a well received episode and it's kind of easy to see why. I am probably one of the bigger WWECW fans out there, but this one just missed the mark. It was rushed and just was all over the place. There have been many, many worse episodes of wrestling that WWE has produced than this, but this one had higher expectations.
Overall Rating: 40%
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