ECW 9-26-06 Review

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Tulsa Convention Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma

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They announce that our main event is an ECW Championship match between Big Show and Sandman. Justin Roberts then announces that JR is our special guest here tonight. He talks about how ECW's smash mouth style reminds him of Mid-South Wrestling. Out comes Matt Striker to interrupt. He insults JR, the crowd and Sandman. Wouldn't you know it, Sandman is now in the ring. He tries to convince JR to save him, but it leads to Sandman hitting Striker in the midsection and then JR joins in and hits him over the back with it. JR and Sandman share a beer to close out the segment. 

Hardcore Holly tells RVD that he's not going to tell him what he's going to do to him, he's going to show him. 

Extreme Rules Match
Hardcore Holly vs. Rob Van Dam

They quickly go outside the ring and it leads to RVD hitting the spinning guillotine leg drop on Holly as he's draped on the barricade. RVD gets out a table, but he takes too long and Holly attacks him. Holly slows it down and takes it to Van Dam. Holly is on the apron and tries to suplex RVD through the table that was set up earlier. They tease it back and forth and Holly eventually hits it as we go into commercial break. This, of course, is one of the more famous moments in WWE ECW history. When we come back, we're made aware of the huge gash on the back of Holly. As far as cuts that happened during a wrestling match go, it's definitely one of the most severe looking ones I have seen. He's still on offense and he drops RVD on a chair. He then sets a chair on RVD's face and hits a leg drop from the second rope. RVD fights back and hits a suplex onto the chair. Van Dam hits the monkey flip and the the top rope kick. Holly for some reason decides to sit in the corner, so RVD hits the skateboard kick with the chair. He then decides to lay down in the ring and RVD then hits him with Rolling Thunder with the chair, but Holly kicks out. Holly catches RVD and powerbombs him onto a chair and a gets a 2 count. RVD goes for the 5 Star Frog Splash, but Holly throws the chair into the face of Van Dam. That looked like it hurt. RVD escapes out of the Alabama Slam attempt, so Holly goes and grabs a chair. RVD dropkicks it in his face and then hits the 5 Star Frog Splash. He crawls over to Holly and picks up the victory. This will always be known for the gash on Holly, but the match was pretty good for what it was as well. Doctors immediately are out and wrapping him up. 

Match Rating: ***1/4

CM Punk is addicted to competition. In walks Kelly Kelly and she wants his help playing Extreme Strip Poker. Mike Knox of course isn't happy about it and they share some words. He tells him that after he's done straightening Kelly out, he'll be looking for Punk. 

Ariel vs. Francine

Ariel cuts a promo that seems to be way out of character and it leads to Francine jumping her. Francine throws Ariel around until Kevin Thorn comes in holds Francine for Ariel. Out comes Balls Mahoney and hits Thorn with a chair and that's it. Normally I'd complain, but this was insulting to everyone's intelligence.

Match Rating: No Rating

After a lame Sandman hype video, we go back to Big Show and Paul Heyman. Show tells Heyman to stay in the back and watch him do his thing. Oh, and the Singapore cane is legal. 

ECW Championship Match
Big Show vs. Sandman

We get a commercial break after their introductions and when we come back Show is getting attacked by the Singapore cane. They announce that it took 24 stitches to sew up Holly tonight. Sandman counters a chokeslam with a slow motion DDT and goes back to hitting Show in the head with the cain. Out comes Matt Striker and he steals Sandman's cain. Show hits his backbreaker into a chokehold before hitting the Show Stopper leg drop. This was pretty terrible. 

Match Rating: 1/2*

The good news is that the best part of the show got about half of the airtime. Unfortunately, everything else on the show was horrible. I'll take a good TV match on here any day, but it wasn't enough to save this from being anything more than just halfway decent.

Overall Rating: 48%