ECW 14th Apr 09 reviewed

Matt Striker & Josh Matthews on the colour desk showing what happens to washed up wrestlers and those who fail in "Tough Enough".

John Morrison vs Evan Bourne. Ah, good old Evan. WWE actually stole the name for his finisher off me! At best this was an average match, early on Bourne was going to dropkick Morrison who was doing a missile dropkick himself but Bourne clearly changed his mind at the very last second & took a step back instead. Bourne sold a neck injury from a legsweep and Morrisons Torture Rack looked pretty good but it slowed the match down at the wrong time. Bournes headscissors was pretty impressive and whats quite bizarre is that they took a commercial break only 9 minutes into a show that only lasts for 40 minutes, the match was slowed down yet again with another weardown move. It took too long for Bourne to come back and this match was getting boring around the 13 minute mark but Bourne managed to rescue the match with a nice reverse Hurricanrana on Morrison who took the eventual win off The Moonlight Drive. The match was around 5 minutes too long and that was mainly due to Morrison trying weardown moves at totally inappropriate times, Bourne was the better worker here though.

Vladimir Kozlov vs David Floridia. I didn't expect this to be very long or very entertaining as Kozlov has a history of s**t squash matches against no name jobbbers and I wasn't surprised on any front here with Kozlov taking the win off a p**s poor choke slam where Kozlov also had to use the leg of his opponant for leverage.

Triple Threat Match, Elimination Chase To Backlash - Christian vs Tommy Dreamer vs Finlay (with Hornswoggle). This wasn't anything special, Finlay was his usual jobbing self but Dreamer & Christian made the match what it was taking the best bumps. Finlay took the eventual win with the Celtic Cross on Dreamer and he will face off against Christian on a new show later in the week for a chance to meet the ECW Champ in a title match.