Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Peoria Civic Center
Peoria, Illinois
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We get a lengthy recap of the Bobby Lashley/Rob Van Dam match from last week. Tonight, we get the rematch. Brad Armstrong is already with Joey Styles and Tazz here tonight.
CM Punk vs. Hardcore Holly
Punk hits a dropkick to the back of the head of a seated Holly early on after trying to go for the Anaconda Vice early in the match. Punk knocks Holly out of the ring, but Holly moves out of the way of the suicide dive. Holly slows things down and hits a second rope leg drop. Punk gains a little bit of momentum, but it gets cut off by a Holly dropkick. Holly drops Punk on the top rope and then throws his shoulder into the ring post. Holly hits the Alabama Slam and gives Punk his first singles match defeat. CM Punk is just about the only guy not named Rob Van Dam who is over on this show, so of course you would have him lose cleanly to Hardcore Holly. I'm not sure I understand that booking. The match was pretty decent.
Match Rating: **1/4
A referee tells Test that his match is next, so Test whines about not getting a title shot so he's not wrestling next.
Elijah Burke is in the ring to give us the Elijah Experience. He's going to knock someone out. Sandman's music hits and he comes through the audience. They do kind of a dorky standoff and it's Sandman, so I've already lost interest.
Extreme Rules Match
Great Khali vs. Tommy Dreamer
Khali obviously just destroys Dreamer here, while they try to tell us how coordinated Khali is. I guess I need to prepare myself to relive this portion of WWE history where Khali is treated as a main event player once again. Dreamer tried to hit him with a sign, but Khali blocks it with a punch. He hits his finisher and stands on him for the victory. Whatever.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Rob Van Dam says that being the ECW Champion was the highlight of his career. He says he respects Lashley, but the tonight the ECW Championship comes home to RVD.
They show Tommy Dreamer standing up during the commercial break after his beating.
Kevin Thorn vs. Shannon Moore
Oh boy. If a Khali squash wasn't enough goodness for you, here's a Thorn one. He dominates, hits the Dark Kiss and gets the victory. No one cared.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Kelly Kelly returns next week.
ECW Championship Match
Rob Van Dam vs. Bobby Lashley
After a lot of hype from the announcers, we get an early commercial break. We miss quite a bit of action during the break, with Lashley steamrolling RVD a couple of times. Lashley misses with a Spear and RVD is able to capitalize. RVD misses with a leg drop on the table and Lashley is back in control. I'm enjoying this match and not really recapping it much. Just as I am typing that, out comes Test to ruin the match by hitting both guys with a chair. The match was good while it lasted, but it's weird why they were so into Test in this era.
Match Rating: **1/2
This was a pretty good show overall. The two main matches were enjoyable TV matches, even if the decision to have Punk pinned cleanly was ill advised. I know he has to lose eventually, but I'm not sure end of career Bob Holly was the right choice.
Overall Rating: 59%
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