Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Target Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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After a lengthy recap of Big Show winning the ECW Championship, Paul Heyman is out with a riot squad. He blames the fans for RVD losing the title. He talks about doing what's best for ECW and they then show him walking to the back. Tommy Dreamer confronts him and is wondering what Heyman is thinking. Heyman says that there is no time to explain because Dreamer's match is next. Dreamer is in street clothes and wasn't aware he had a match here.
Tommy Dreamer vs. Test
So Dreamer has to wrestle in street clothes here and then clotheslines Test over the top rope. Test immediately drives Dreamer into the ring post and throws him back in the ring. This seemed like a perfect opportunity for Test to evolve as a performer after being away for a couple of years, but instead he's pretty much the same. Dreamer makes a comeback with a swinging neckbreaker and a reverse neckbreaker. Dreamer goes for the DDT, but Test counters and hits a full nelson slam. Test goes up to the top rope, but misses with the elbow drop. Dreamer goes for the Dreamer Driver, but Test counters, rolls him up and puts his feet on the ropes for the victory. I'm not sure that really did much for Test here.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Candice is getting dressed backstage and then gets up close with Kelly to tell her that she's going to make this extreme.
Ariel the tarot card reader says that the future holds blood and then Kevin Thorn comes in and spits out blood at the camera.
Now it's time for Kelly's Exposé and it ends how it always ends, with Mike Knox taking Kelly away. Only this time, Sandman comes out and attacks Knox. Sandman hits him in the head and he falls off the stage and crushes a can of beer in celebration.
CM Punk talks about his tattoos.
Sabu vs. Justin Credible
Credible attacks Sabu right away, but Sabu is quickly on offense. Credible goes looking under the ring, but Sabu does a somersault dive over the top rope. He hits another somersault over the top back into the ring. Sabu sets up the table that Credible pulled from under the ring. For some reason, it looks like the crappiest table they could have found. Sabu lays Credible on the table and hits a leg drop through the table. Since this wasn't an Extreme Rules match, Sabu is disqualified. Cool. Don't worry though. It will be Extreme Rules at Saturday Night's Main Event.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We hear from Balls Mahoney and he's balls to the wall. Yep.
Now Ric Flair tells us who he is and he's going to win his 17th world title tonight.
Shannon Moore is coming and now he looks like a punk.
Extreme Rules For The ECW Championship
Ric Flair vs. Big Show
We get some stalling into the commercial break, but when we come back the match if already in progress. Flair gets busted open pretty early on and Big Show dominates. Flair is able to get in a couple of low blows to finally slow down the champ. Flair pulls out a barbed wire baseball bat and starts wailing on Show. It is pretty crazy looking at it over 15 years later that Ric Flair and Big Show had the crowd chanting "E-C-W" in a match under the ECW brand owned by WWE. Flair pours out some tacks and starts hitting Show in the head with a chair until he falls in the tacks. Show isn't happy about it, so he gets up and chokeslams Flair and then puts on his new finisher for the submission victory. He then throws Flair stomach first into the tacks for good measure. I hate to see guys like this take some of these risks, but as a novelty match, they did make it entertaining.
Match Rating: ***
Flair gets walked to the back by the medical staff as we go off the air.
Pretty much everything on this show outside of the main event wasn't good. It's only an hour, which will always work in its favor, but this one wasn't particularly worth your time.
Overall Rating: 45%
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