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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

ECW 15th April 2008 reviewed

8 Man tag Match - CM Punk, Jimmy Wang Yang, Shannon Moore & Kofi Kingston vs Elijah Burke, Deuce, Domino & Shelton Benjamin. This sounded like it'd be a very good match with some decent talent involved. Punk's team were the better workers for most of this. Yang sold well & Kingston got an excellent pin. He's bound for greater things for sure.

Diva Dance off - Layla, Maryse, Eve Torres, Lene Yada & Kelly Kelly. Doing this basically says we don't trust these people to actually wrestle so we've got them doing this s**t instead. (Is Lena Yada supposed to be Gail Kim's replacement? She looks very similar & wears the same style costume Gail used to). Kelly Kelly took the obvious win that no-one cared about, such a waste of tv time.

Tommy Dreamer vs Mike Knox. Well at least it was going to be until the GM made it Mike Knox vs Colin Delaney. Colin can certainly take bumps & sell like crazy. I assume their running him as the modern day Mikey Whipwreck? Knox won in a very short match.

Tag Match, The Miz & John Morrison vs The Undertaker & Kane. This was a pretty even match, one of Miz & Morrison's better matches that I've seen. They both worked well enough but Miz looked a bit unsure doing some stuff with Kane which Kane no-sold anyway, showing a low level of in-ring trust. 'Taker & Morrison looked comfortable enough working each other, Undertaker took the win off the tombstone piledriver for his team. No shock there really.

This was another ECW show where they demonstrated they just don't have enough staff to work the matches & fill the air time they have. The Diva Dance off was evidence enough of that point. If they wanted to impress me with Mike Knox, they should have had him take on both Dreamer AND Delaney AND still have won. He'd have gotten way more over, winning in that way. ECW needs its own people and no-one from Smackdown or Raw coming in week after aweek. If they haven't got the staff then it's time to stop the shows & cease the brand until they have.

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