Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Tucson Arena
Tucson, Arizona
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We shockingly get a Trump/McMahon recap to start the show. After the intro, Vince is on his way to the ring and reminds us that Steve Austin is the guest referee for the Umaga/Bobby Lashley match. Vince stumbles over his words as he's trying to talk about slapping Trump. Just make this stop. He brings out Lashley for a public apology for choosing to side with Trump. Lashley says that he wants to apologize to everyone, including Vince. He shakes Vince's hand, but then doesn't let go of the hold. He says that when Vince slapped him, he should have broken him in half and then walks to the back. This all took up over 25% of the show.
If you hadn't been reminded enough, Ashley is in Playboy.
Balls Mahoney vs. Hardcore Holly
We get lots of punches and kicks here. For some reason Balls goes up top and then misses. Holly hits the Alabama Slam and that's all. Out comes Snitsky and he attacks Holly. Whatever.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We go to Rebecca with CM Punk to talk about Money In The Bank. He's interrupted by Elijah Burke and he's complimentary about Punk. Burke offers him a choice to join the New Breed. In walks Rob Van Dam and he tells him not to listen to him.
Rob Van Dam vs. Elijah Burke
It's all RVD in the beginning and into the commercial break. During the commercial, Ariel distracts RVD as he is going for Rolling Thunder and the delay allows for Burke to get his knees up. Burke hits RVD with running knees to the back in the corner after a rest hold spot. RVD fight back and hits a superkick. Burke gets hit with the monkey flip and then a spin kick. Split-legged moonsault gets a 2 count and Tazz claims that not many people kick out of that. I can't remember a time in WWE that he's won with that. RVD goes up top and hits the 5 Star Frog Splash and gets the win. This was pretty standard stuff.
Match Rating: *3/4
After the match, Tommy Dreamer gets on the mic and challenges the New Breed to a 4 on 4 at WrestleMania.
We go over Nick Bockwinkle being the next inductee in the Hall Of Fame. This obviously is a perfect transition to go to Extreme Exposé in the ring.
We then get a recap of Lashley and Vince from approximately 30 minutes ago.
It's time for Stone Cold and he talks that wherever there are WWE fans and WWE cameras, that's where his home is that night. He tells us that he's going to call the match right down the middle because that's the way it has to be. He talks to people in the crowd about who they want to get their head shaved. Austin says he doesn't care because either way someone is getting their head shaved. I would say that this is probably not the best advertisement for the city of Tucson. Austin says he will be at Raw for the contract signing. Austin is one of the most entertaining performers in company history, but I am pretty sure that he would tell you this was not one of his better segments.
Calling this episode inessential would be the nicest way of putting it. They are just using ECW as an extra spot for the Vince/Trump stuff. Like I have mentioned before, it obviously worked at the time to get extra buys. I can't argue that. However, hindsight has made this pretty insufferable especially with how both of these morons continued to fall further down the drain. With that being said, this show was not very good and contained next to no wrestling on it.
Overall Rating: 31%
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