Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Madison Square Garden
New York City, New York
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Paul Heyman is out to kick off the show. He takes all of the credit for ECW returning and being at Madison Square Garden and blames the fans for ECW going out of business. Out comes Sabu to interrupt. Sabu attacks his security and goes after Heyman. The security attacks him, but Sabu hits them with the chair and then an Arabian Face Buster. Heyman says that Big Show will take on Sabu for the ECW Championship in Extreme Rules. Sabu then hits a springboard dive off the top rope on both security guards.
Rob Van Dam vs. Hardcore Holly
RVD attacks Holly on his was up into the ring and there's a big "R-V-D" chant from the MSG crowd. The action goes outside and Holly does a rare dive. RVD then tries a moonsault from the barricade and kind of, sort of hits it, but sells it accordingly. Back in the ring, Holly hits a nice dropkick and gets a 2 count. Holly goes for an elbow off the turnbuckle, but RVD gets his leg up, but Holly kind of lands on it strangely. RVD hits Rolling Thunder and a monkey flip on Sparky Plugg. RVD goes up top, but Holly is able to hit the top rope and cause him to lose his balance. From there he goes for a top rope superplex, but RVD knocks him off. He goes for the 5 Star Frog Splash, but in come Test, Mike Knox and Stevie Richards. He hits a kick on Richards, but then they all gang up and attack RVD. Sandman's music hits and he and Tommy Dreamer come in and make the save. Poor Stevie gets the worst of it. The match was decent, but a little on the sloppy side.
Match Rating: *1/2
CM Punk vs. Shannon Moore
Well, Moore finally makes his re-debut tonight. He slaps Punk and goes on the attack. Punk does a Tarantula style move in the ropes and then hits a springboard clothesline. He hits the big running knee in the corner followed by the bulldog. Punk hits a flurry of kicks into the Uranage, which is followed by the Anaconda Vice and a tap out by Moore. Well, that was some debut. I mean, it made Punk look like a killer, but why even waste time even mentioning Moore before tonight?
Match Rating: 1/2*
Rene Dupree now says he is debuting tonight too. What a historic night.
Kelly Kelly lets CM Punk know that she is a big fan of his. Oh, and in case you didn't know, she's an exhibitionist and wants to go to some parties, but can't because she's 19. That was a lot of commas for that run on sentence. She says they can stay in though and then Mike Knox comes and takes her away. Kelly's acting is so rough here in 2006.
Kevin Thorn and Ariel are out to watch the next match.
Rene Dupree vs. Balls Mahoney
2006 is just such a weird year. Dupree hits a springboard elbow drop off the first rope. I'm not sure I've ever seen that one before. He does the little hop thing that leads into a fist in the face of Balls. He starts slapping Mahoney, which wakes him and he hits a sit down powerbomb. We get the "Balls" chant and he follows it up with a kick sending Dupree to the floor. Up comes Thorn and Balls takes care of him. Balls grabs a chair, but the ref takes it away. Thorn throws him off the apron into the steps, which appeared to be a rough fall. Dupree rolls him in and gets the pinfall victory. This all just felt surreal.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Matt Striker uses big words to insult Sandman backstage.
Extreme Rules Match For The ECW Championship
Big Show vs. Sabu
Sabu throws a chair, but Big Show swats it away. Show manhandles Sabu for a little bit and then destroys a chair so Sabu can't use it. It's probably the only chair in the building. Show hits a clothesline and gets a 2 count with a cocky pin attempt. Sabu makes his comeback and starts chucking chairs at Show's head. Show attempts to chokeslam Sabu through a table, but Sabu counters it into a DDT. Sabu goes back to the chairs and knocks him off the apron through another table. Show gets revenge and plants Sabu through another table. Back in the ring he hits his backbreaker and new leg drop finisher to pick up the victory. This was a decent enough main event that hit the notes the live crowd was looking for.
Match Rating: **1/4
This was a fairly good episode on a show that has shown some potential, but still isn't quite there yet. The roster is just such a hodgepodge of talent, that the crowd is just finding it hard to care about most of them.
Overall Rating: 59%
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