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ECW 5-29-07 Review

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
John Labatt Centre
London, Ontario, Canada

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Randy Orton is out to start the show because this is ECW. He shows the footage of what he did to Rob Van Dam on Raw. He announces that he'll be taking on RVD in a stretcher match at One Night Stand. Out comes Tommy Dreamer to stand up for his friend. He tells him that he's not welcome here, but he wants him in a match tonight and Orton accepts. He claims he will kill the legend of ECW. 

No Disqualification Match
CM Punk vs. Elijah Burke

Let's see if they can improve upon their Judgment Day match here. It feels like I watched that forever ago and that's probably because it was. NFL has definitely cut into my retro wrestling time. It doesn't help that this stretch of 2007 is not very good. We get an early commercial break and then see that Punk missed with a leap and then was driven into the ring post. Burke hits his nice looking running top rope handstand elbow drop thingy, as he continues to work on Punk's ribs. Burke sets up a table in the corner and that allows Punk to fight back. Punk hits the running knee in the corner, but Burke counters the bulldog into a back suplex. Punk snaps Burke's neck on the top rope and goes for the springboard clothesline, but Punk legit slips. Punk goes for Go To Sleep but out comes Marcus Cor Von with a chair. Punk fights him off and rolls down his knee pads. He goes for an Elijah Express, but Burke blocks it. Punk is able to throw Burke out of the way and Cor Von hits Punk with the Pounce through the table. Burke covers him and picks up the victory. I was hoping for a little bit better between the two and the finish was a foregone conclusion given the stipulation. 

Match Rating: **

We go to Vince McMahon live in a studio. He makes fun of Joey and Tazz's names. He brings up Lashley and he is also live in another studio. Lashley laughs when Vince says he was brought up in the streets and tells him he had a silver spoon in his mouth. Ironically, neither are true. This is terrible. Lashley wasn't good in these situations yet at this point of his career and Vince is just so stale as a character. This feud can't end soon enough. 

We get more of the Rob Van Dam/Randy Orton feud. 

It's time for Extreme Exposé. They dance. 

Kevin Thorn vs. Balls Mahoney

Great. Thorn is without Ariel. Thorn throws Balls into the ring post because he's so serious now. He hits his sit down spinebuster and Original Sin for the easy victory. Whatever.

Match Rating: 1/4*

The Major Brothers are talking about RVD and in walks Matt Striker. Striker says that if RVD was smart, he wouldn't show up at One Night Stand. Striker then hypes up the draft and hints at splitting them up. Striker challenges one of the Major Brothers for next week. This was pretty poor television. 

Randy Orton vs. Tommy Dreamer

This match should be a 5 minute spring of a brawl. Instead, it's at a crawl almost instantly. Orton dropkicks Dreamer off the apron and to the floor. Dreamer is able to hit a superplex and then some right hands. Dreamer avoids a dropkick and gets a 2 count. Dreamer hits a bulldog and a sit down spinebuster. He sets up Orton in the tree of woe and hits the running dropkick. Dreamer hits an inverted DDT and gets another 2 count. Dreamer goes for the DDT, but Orton is able to hit the RKO and pick up the win. I'm surprised Dreamer got in as much offense as he did given that Orton is getting a big push right now, but in the end no one will remember that this match existed. After the match, Orton hits Dreamer with another RKO. Orton hits the punt for good measure. Out comes RVD and Orton takes care of him quickly and RVD is selling the concussion again. 

Match Rating: *

This was another ho hum episode. I suppose that's better than why does this exist ECW, which is a lot of weeks also. Nothing important happened here and they just continue to rush into too many things like Saturday Night's Main Event, One Night Stand and the draft. 

Overall Rating: 38%

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