ECW 1/30
On the heels of a solid RAW Monday night, the WWE tried its best to get people interested in Tuesday's ECW show in Houston, only to once again fail to realize that throwing the same feud at fans over and over again is not a way to get people interested in the product. First off, let's see if I have this correct. Vince McMahon owns ECW. It's not a storyline they try to dispute, its just a simple fact. Yet he shows up in an ECW ring and tells the fans that they are losers if they liked the old ECW, and that the original ECW guys still around (Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, Balls Mahoney) suck. Vince then proceeds to tell us that ECW needs new blood, only to bring out.....Elijah Burke? It was a truly bizarre segment that ended as one would think, with the four ECW original guys that McMahon declared that "suck" coming to the ring and clearing it out of Vince and Burke.
The only thing I can think of here is they are trying some stupid Old vs New ECW feud, that will have the four guys McMahon berated vs guys like Burke, Marquis Cor Von, and I'll guess Kevin Thorn and Test. You could also throw Hardcore Holly in there as well. This feud is all wrong, as of course it means we'll now see Vinnie Mac on ECW too much, as well as its just a feud that is so old and stale, no one will care, and that will include the 70,000 in Detroit when they try to throw this at us at WrestleMania in some stupid Hardcore four-man tag of the old vs the new.
Speaking of old, what has happened to RVD? A clean loss to Hardcore Holly, who I still think they may push for a title shot at Mania, is not what I would have expected. Did it make an impact? I guess, but I think that Holly could have beaten a number of guys in order to show something other than burying RVD. Same goes for C.M. Punk, who may never get out of the doghouse for his backstage antics. He lost to Striker by pin when Striker used the ropes on a rollup. Another waste of talent that may have to move on to find success in another promotion.
The main event, if you want to call it that, on this show was yet ANOTHER boring match
between Test and Bobby Lashley for the ECW Title. Again, for the third time in a week, Lashley won clean with a powerslam. The show ended with the Undertaker showing up, and making it seem like he cared about the ECW title, since he does have the option of fighting Lashley if he wants at Mania. Yeah, like that is going to happen. Just another way to drag out for a few weeks that Taker will take on Batista, while Lashley is going to end up with likely Holly or possibly Cor Von as his opposition for Mania. That will likely be the match where I go to the restroom. This show is just brutal to watch right now.
The only thing I can think of here is they are trying some stupid Old vs New ECW feud, that will have the four guys McMahon berated vs guys like Burke, Marquis Cor Von, and I'll guess Kevin Thorn and Test. You could also throw Hardcore Holly in there as well. This feud is all wrong, as of course it means we'll now see Vinnie Mac on ECW too much, as well as its just a feud that is so old and stale, no one will care, and that will include the 70,000 in Detroit when they try to throw this at us at WrestleMania in some stupid Hardcore four-man tag of the old vs the new.
Speaking of old, what has happened to RVD? A clean loss to Hardcore Holly, who I still think they may push for a title shot at Mania, is not what I would have expected. Did it make an impact? I guess, but I think that Holly could have beaten a number of guys in order to show something other than burying RVD. Same goes for C.M. Punk, who may never get out of the doghouse for his backstage antics. He lost to Striker by pin when Striker used the ropes on a rollup. Another waste of talent that may have to move on to find success in another promotion.
The main event, if you want to call it that, on this show was yet ANOTHER boring match
between Test and Bobby Lashley for the ECW Title. Again, for the third time in a week, Lashley won clean with a powerslam. The show ended with the Undertaker showing up, and making it seem like he cared about the ECW title, since he does have the option of fighting Lashley if he wants at Mania. Yeah, like that is going to happen. Just another way to drag out for a few weeks that Taker will take on Batista, while Lashley is going to end up with likely Holly or possibly Cor Von as his opposition for Mania. That will likely be the match where I go to the restroom. This show is just brutal to watch right now.
