Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Hammerstein Ballroom
New York City, New York
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So this one was supposed to be a pretty big deal. I remember making sure not to miss this one. Let's see how it holds up.
Extreme Rules Match
Sandman & Tommy Dreamer vs. Test & Mike Knox
So this obviously turns into a brawl in about 10 seconds. Dreamer and Sandman go under the ring and pull out some barbed wire board and bring it in the ring. Test saves Knox from being suplexed in it with a shot to the head with the kendo stick. Kelly Kelly tries to step in front of Sandman, but he picks her up ou tof the way and continues the attack. Dreamer then puts Kelly on his knee and spanks her with his bloody hand in an embarrassing moment. In comes Paul Heyman's personal protection beats up Dreamer and throws him into the barbed wire. Heyman walks away and in comes Test to throw Dreamer onto the barbed wire again. Test hits the TKO and that's all. What could have been a fun match, it turned into everything I have grown to hate about the original ECW.
Match Rating: *
Heyman is shown backstage with the locker room giving him the cold shoulder. Sabu tells Heyman he wants Big Show, but Heyman says he won't let him and threatens to throw him out of the building.
CM Punk says that he's going to make the most of his opportunity.
Justin Credible vs. CM Punk
This was what had me excited about this show, even though I had never seen anything he had done at the time this aired. Punk quickly connected with me and has been one of my favorites ever since. Some nerd who writes wrestling reviews that no one reads on the internet likes Punk. What a shock. The one thing I do remember about this match was how much offense Credible got here. Credible hits two snap suplexes and then an overhead belly-to-belly into a bridge and gets a 2 count. Punk makes a comeback and hits a springboard clothesline. He then hits the running knee in the corner into a bulldog. Punk puts on the Anaconda Vise and that's all. I'm not sure I would have had Credible look that much of a serious threat, but Punk looked good here.
Match Rating: **
Brooklyn Brawler is in the ring and says he is too extreme for Raw and SmackDown and is going to become ECW Champion.
Brooklyn Brawler vs. Kurt Angle
We get mostly stalling and then Angle hits a headbutt and slaps on the Ankle Lock for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
ECW Championship Match
Batista vs. Big Show
Leave it to Vince McMahon and Paul Heyman to book this match in ECW country. The crowd is naturally crapping all over it. Big Show gets on the mic and says to screw RVD and Sabu. He then stands outside the ring and stalls just to get more heat. Batista ends up outside the ring and eats a kick to the face. Listening to both Tazz and Joey Styles both defend the match is just bizarre. Anyway, they try to have a match and it isn't very great. Show grabs the title belt, but Batista hits him with a spinebuster. He goes for the Batista Bomb, but Show picks him up and slams him off his shoulder. Show grabs the belt and hits Batista with it for the DQ. Why even book this match? Sabu of course comes out and chucks a chair at him. He then hits an Arabian Facebuster to Big Show's back. He follows that up with a dropkick with the chair, knocking Show off the apron and through a table. Well those 30 seconds were better than the entire match.
Match Rating: 1/2*
The Punk debut was good and the Sabur interference was effective. The rest wasn't very good. I can't believe they would try to pull this off in NYC. They had a chance to redeem themselves a little bit and they just weren't able to do it.
Overall Rating: 43%
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