Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Roanoke Civic Center
Roanoke, Virginia
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Sabu vs. Roadkill
The show kicks off with Sabu coming down the aisle, which gets no complaint from me. Sabu hits a big top rope DDT. He goes for a triple jump moonsault, but Roadkiill trips him up and he hits face-first on the chair. Roadkill pulls out a table, but Sabu almost kills himself by hitting a dive to the outside. Roadkill hits a second rope elbow drop and is actually looking pretty good here. He goes for a top rope splash, but Sabu throws a chair at him and hits a hurricanrana. Sabu hits the Arabian Facebuster on top of the table. He puts on the Camel Clutch, but Roadkill won't give up. Sabu hits him a few times with the chair and then puts it on again with the chair underneath him and that is all. That was a million times better than I thought it would be. I have mentioned it before that these types of matches aren't my cup of tea like they were back in this era, but this was a well done one. It was all action and chaos in a good way.
Match Rating: ***
They show Kevin Thorn outside the arena.
Tommy Dreamer is in the ring and he says after the beating Big Show gave him last week, he has more respect for him. He says "Thank you sir, may I have another?". Out comes Big Show and he destroys Dreamer again.
Mike Knox tells Kelly that he only likes it when she shows it off to him. He then asks her to be in his corner tonight.
Kurt Angle says that if he wins his match against RVD tonight, he'll be the #1 contender at Saturday Night's Main Event. Man, a lot is about to go down between now and that SNME for ECW. He considers himself a failure that he hasn't been a champion since April 2nd.
Mike Knox vs. Danny Doring
This is Knox's in ring debut. Knox hits a Sky High. Meanwhile, Kelly sees a fan that's interested in her and asks him to unhook her bra. Knox runs over there and shoves him to the floor. Knox goes in the ring and hits the Cross Rhodes for the victory, but Kelly headed to the back before it happened. Kelly reveals herself to be on the stage.
Match Rating: 1/4*
They then announce that it's time for Kelly's Exposé with Kelly Kelly. It's not less awkward than it has been in previous weeks. So they went to commercial, she danced for about a minute and now Knox comes out? He throws a shirt at her, but she throws it back. So he goes up the pulls her down and brings her to the back.
Big Dick Johnson comes out in a robe dancing down the aisle. He's dancing in the ring and Sandman's music hits. He rips off his pants and starts dancing in his g string against Sandman, so of course he gets beaten with the Singapore Cain and that's all. Personally, I'm just waiting for Sandman to get destroyed by someone.
Paul Heyman tells Rob Van Dam that he's facing John Cena and Edge at Saturday Night's Main Event. If Kurt Angle wins, it becomes a Fatal 4-Way and his odds of retaining become even less. RVD is still confident. Edge and Lita are then shown walking through the crowd and take two guys seats at ringside.
After the commercial, Tazz interviews Edge and he says he does what he wants, when he wants. He insults Tazz's height and says he came here to watch Angle and RVD destroy each other.
Kurt Angle vs. Rob Van Dam
I remember loving this match and have been wanting to re-watch for a long time. Angle gets RVD to the mat early on and works on the arm. RVD is able to hit him with a windmill kick and then does the same spot he did with Cena the night before where he leaps up to the top rope and Angle shoves him to the floor. When we come back from commercial, Angle has RVD on the mat until he escapes via jawbreaker. Angle quickly hits an overhead belly-to-belly with a release. RVD fights out of a body scissors, but Angle hits him with a German suplex. RVD hits a spin kick and both men are down. They get up and trade forearms. RVD hits a springboard kick and a couple of clotheslines. Angle fights back with a high cradle suplex. Angle goes for the Angle slam, he counters into a sunset flip, which Angle counters to the Ankle Lock, but RVD gets out. Angle hits a belly-to-belly suplex again and gets a 2 count. He puts on the Ankle Lock, but RVD rolls through and hits a superkick. RVD leaps up top and goes for the single leg kick, but Angle catches him and puts him in the Ankle Lock. RVD is able to get to the bottom rope, but Angle drags him back to the center of the ring. This time RVD pulls Angle through the ropes and to the floor. RVD rolls him back in and hits a slingshot leg drop for a nearfall. RVD misses Rolling Thunder and misses, but hits Angle with a kick to the head. He hits a split-legged moonsault, but again Angle kicks out. RVD goes up top again, but Angle leaps up and hits a suplex for another 2 count. Angle goes for the Angle Slam, but this time RVD counters into the spike DDT. RVD hits the 5 Star Frog Splash and picks up the victory. Things really picked up towards the end of the match to make for a great TV main event. Kudos to RVD for three very good matches in a row with Edge on Sunday, John Cena on Monday and Angle on Tuesday. After the match, Edge Spears RVD and makes out with Lita.
Match Rating: ***3/4
This was far and away the best episode of ECW so far. We got a great main event, a surprisingly great opener and then some filler in between. With being an hour, the show just goes by a lot quicker than Raw and SmackDown.
Overall Rating: 73%
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