ECW 2-6-07 Review

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Qwest Center
Omaha, Nebraska

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After a lengthy recap of Vince McMahon naming Elijah Burke the new face of ECW and the attack on him afterwards, Vince is making his way to the ring with the ECW Originals already in the ring. Vince talks about all of their criminal records. I know another guy with a criminal record. Vince then calls them dinosaurs and that they're about to be extinct. He says that some of them will be in action and warns them to not put their hands on any officials and that there better not be any interference or they are fired. 

If you thought ECW couldn't get any worse, think again. Snitsky is coming. Now with 100% less eyebrows.

Kevin Thorn vs. Tommy Dreamer

Dreamer was literally just in the ring. Did he really need to go back and then come back out? Right before the match starts, Matt Striker is introduced as the referee for the match with Vince watching in the back. Dreamer hits a sit down spinebuster and when Striker goes to make the count, he "hurts" his knee. Dreamer gets up to argue it and Thorn hits him with a clothesline over Striker's back for the victory. This was exactly what you were expecting after the opening promo. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

Hardcore Holly is with Rebecca and says that he's sat back and watched Bobby Lashley defend that title to everyone but him. Tonight he's going to prove why he should be ECW Champion.

They show a little biography piece on Bobby Lashley with his family and growing up. 

Hardcore Holly vs. Bobby Lashley

We get a little bit of Holly maybe egging Lashley on in the corner and he hits him with some seemingly stiff shots. Lashley hits a delayed vertical suplex, but Holly quickly is able to throw Lashley's shoulder into the ring post. They go outside and Holly throws him into the ring post and steps. He drives him into the ring and then throws him back into the ring to work on the back. Lashley is able to hit Holly with an overhead belly to belly suplex before hitting some clotheslines. Lashley hits a back body drop and a clothesline in the corner. He hits the press slam into the powerslam and that's all. That was at least more compelling than his match with Kenny, as they continue to just try and give him victories. Then out of nowhere, Lashley is attacked by Snitsky. Is he the first person to get a vignette and then debut the same night? Holly then hits Lashley with an Alabama Slam. 

Match Rating: *3/4

Balls Mahoney vs. Marcus Cor Von

Matt Striker is your guest timekeeper for this one. They show Mahoney getting destroyed by Umaga last night on Raw and he's sporting a neck brace. Cor Von quickly attacks Mahoney and hits a clothesline. He rips off the neck brace and throws it out of the ring. Mahoney hits the Balls punch thing, but then Cor Von hits a swinging neckbreaker. Cor Von hits the Pounce and then puts on the Cobra Clutch for the victory. They need to get rid of that. Striker then repeatedly just rings the bell and that's his contribution to his role there. Mahoney can't bump around that well, so this was probably Cor Von's least impressive squash so far. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

Extreme Exposé does their thing until Matt Striker interrupts. He then announces that Marcus Cor Von is the guest announcer and Kevin Thorn is the guest timekeeper. He is the ring announcer for this match.

Rob Van Dam vs. Elijah Burke

We join the match in progress after the final commercial break. Burke snaps RVD's neck on the top rope and RVD is snapped into the barricade. Burke hits leaping double knees to RVD in the corner. They are really hyping up the New Breed name because it's WWE and that's what they do. RVD comes back and hits a spin kick in the corner. He hits the 5 Star Frog Splash, but Thorn rings the bell while he's in the air. Striker tries to announce Burke as the winner, but the ref stops him. This distraction allows for Burke to hit a low blow and pick up the pinfall victory. This was rushed, so it didn't work as well as they had probably hoped. After the match, the New Breed attacks and the Originals come out to make the save. 

Match Rating: 1/2*

Well, like most things, this show is even worse with Vince's involvement. I am all for them trying to build new stars, but I don't think anyone was asking for Kevin Thorn to get a push. I'm not sure why I religiously watched this over SmackDown, but it's easy to see why I was in the minority.

Overall Rating: 36%