Yep, I'm reviewing another ECW, I'm not saying it'll be a regular thing. I just happened to find it and decided to watch and review it. What damn day does ECW air anyway? Did I put the wrong date on last weeks show?
Show opens with Teddy Long and I finally remembered who Jack Swagger reminds me of. Chris Nowinski, the Tough Enough dude who left after concussion issues.
Ricky Ortiz vs Boogeyman - There was no bell so this match never started. There was no winner as there was no match so this lasted the grand total of no time at all.
Paul Burchill vs Finlay - Is Finlay the oldest guy actually working in-ring for WWE now? What is he now, 8 or 900 years old? Finlay took the win in about 3 and a half minutes. Both the colour guys oozed over how good this match was so I assume they were watching something else (Katie Lea's cleavage perhaps?) as this was far below average.
Mark Henry vs Tommy Dreamer - I'm not exactly sure why the Cleveland crowd were chanting ECW (perhaps to show they remembered what show they were watching?). Henry is boring at the best of times (this was one of those times) and Dreamer performed well below par for him in what is probably the swan song of his career. Henry took the eventual win in a match that lasted just over 5 minutes. If Tommy wants a job after ECW I for one would welcome him to TNA.
C** storyline involving Jack Swagger having his title belt stolen and the culprit turns out to be Hornswoggle as it seems this is the only way they can get Hornswoggle on TV these days with cheap ass gimmicks like this one.
In a 1 hour show ECW will probably claim there were 3 matches. There were 2 as one never started or ended and had zero time duration. The 2 matches that happened totalled just under 9 minutes of in-ring action with the rest of the time spent on video packages, backstage s**t and stuff designed to further storylines thats not an actual match. Considering the show spent 41 minutes on air only 9 minutes of that was actually spent on matches. That's pretty pathetic when you look at it. We can but hope that ROH getting proper weekly TV time will finally kill whats left of ECW seeing as it hasn't had the good grace to die with dignity. If Tommy Dreamer has any pull left he'll ask them to kill the show before that happens. There is still time left for one more old style ECW show to end the brand on a high note. Let it go out and be remembered fondly please WWE?
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