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12-05-2006, 08:14 PM
Tonight will be the 1st ever post Paul Heyman ECW show. Dave Laguna ( a guy who broke in under Heyman years ago) will now be writing the show alone it appears. Heyman's final act was to leave a promo where he's visually angry and sadden that his once proud vision became Vince's same old product.
Of course being an ECW fan even I question why I'd devote time to a product that has pretty much in the next few months will lose many stars and be a shell of itself ? But I'm here til December 2007 give or take I suppose. Or maybe Vince will realize and pull his head from his ass and promote the show different....yeah and monkeys fly outta my butt.
The Good
The show opens with Paul Heyman's tearful good-bye. Cleary people can read between the lines here. The end is near and the fact is Heyman decided he had enough of Vince and Steph's vision. So he cut this promo and left. To put over Bobby Lashley and the Main Event tonight.
Rob Van Dam and CM Punk teamup for this opening card match which pretty much shows where those 2 are headed. No room for the regular good guys fans have gotten into. Unless your a Cena or Batista clone you aren't welcome in New ECW's top card.
Rob dedicates the match to Sabu as the 2 guys are pretty damn over. CM Punk and RVD have their fans as they face Test and Holly. Just when Holly looks to tap to CM Punk in a short tag match , they end up having the Security Team do a run in. Why they wouldn't let Holly put over CM Punk is beyond me. But this is the company that pretty much sidetracked Punk to push Lashley so what else is new.
The faces bury the masked member quickly. Then celebrate with Sabu who helped. I think Sabu and RVD share a moment where both realize their there to help CM Punk get a rub before they depart.
Now its time for the usual Tommy Dreamer is a f-ckin man spot. Davari dares Dreamer to come out and Tommy comes out selling he's near death. Back and shoulder wrapped as he looks like he's been thru a warzone.
Dreamer however won't back down and takes on Davari in this. Taking some punishment as he struggles back. Finally when Tommy does the unthinkable...he actually wins again on New ECW. This shocks everyone and out comes Khali who drives Dreamer down onto a chair. Laguna I hope is a Dreamer supporter since he's someone the fans have taken too. The Mick Foley esque underdog in a sense.
Big Show cuts a good promo on why he's gonna get back his title. Its a good spot to see. Good-bye Big Show , you will be missed.
Mike Knox does the best thing since he's debuted as he breaks up with Kelly and lays her out. Least that storyline ended and Taz climbs into the ring. I'd love to see Taz make a in ring return but he'd be buried as usual I suspect. Lets hope this takes Kelly and Knox off our TV's for now.
Lashley to his credit has people cheer for him since its before Smackdown. He's lucky they aren't on the road again as the fans get behind him at times. Its his best reaction since the European shows. Because he's gonna need them if he's gonna be the SUPERFACE that Vince loves.
Now as Big Show works this you have to wonder what Lashley will do for challengers. The problems with a Goldberg face is you need huge f-cking heels. ECW odds are will see Kane or Khali face Lashley in perhaps the worst TV build of all time. I can see why Heyman didn't want Lashley as a face since it really is gonna be hard to find people. All the while CM Punk plays mid-card b-tch , which is wrong to do since more fans seem into him .
The match itself was pretty good. Big Show can only do so much and Lashley's a beast to pick him up as we see. The match ends and so does the Big Show's WWE Career in a way as he loses and puts over Lashley.
The Bad
The funniest thing that proves that Vince cleary can't see ECW as different is the Kelly/Ariel match. Where Ariel is a sick twisted wannabe Vampire she jobs to Kelly , the usual hot blond WWE Diva who is what we see on every brand. God forbid we actually push someone who looks like a twisted freak for the Old ECW fans. What we need is same old, same old.
Not enough long matches cleary. Plus the shows geared like Smackdown with a monster face who can defy all . I like Lashley but I would like to see him face normal heels who could give him a run and with Show out , hows that gonna be possible ? Unless Matt Striker , Bob Holly or Test form a heel group on ECW and take the title.
OVERALL: **1/2 Outta 5. Laguna has a lot of work to do. To convince Rob Van Dam and Sabu to stick as well as Dreamer. They should just accept that with Heyman gone the vision is just screwed. Since their doing the same thing on New ECW as we see in Smackdown and RAW. I just wonder if RVD's wife will show up and do TNA chants anymore ?
Of course being an ECW fan even I question why I'd devote time to a product that has pretty much in the next few months will lose many stars and be a shell of itself ? But I'm here til December 2007 give or take I suppose. Or maybe Vince will realize and pull his head from his ass and promote the show different....yeah and monkeys fly outta my butt.
The Good
The show opens with Paul Heyman's tearful good-bye. Cleary people can read between the lines here. The end is near and the fact is Heyman decided he had enough of Vince and Steph's vision. So he cut this promo and left. To put over Bobby Lashley and the Main Event tonight.
Rob Van Dam and CM Punk teamup for this opening card match which pretty much shows where those 2 are headed. No room for the regular good guys fans have gotten into. Unless your a Cena or Batista clone you aren't welcome in New ECW's top card.
Rob dedicates the match to Sabu as the 2 guys are pretty damn over. CM Punk and RVD have their fans as they face Test and Holly. Just when Holly looks to tap to CM Punk in a short tag match , they end up having the Security Team do a run in. Why they wouldn't let Holly put over CM Punk is beyond me. But this is the company that pretty much sidetracked Punk to push Lashley so what else is new.
The faces bury the masked member quickly. Then celebrate with Sabu who helped. I think Sabu and RVD share a moment where both realize their there to help CM Punk get a rub before they depart.
Now its time for the usual Tommy Dreamer is a f-ckin man spot. Davari dares Dreamer to come out and Tommy comes out selling he's near death. Back and shoulder wrapped as he looks like he's been thru a warzone.
Dreamer however won't back down and takes on Davari in this. Taking some punishment as he struggles back. Finally when Tommy does the unthinkable...he actually wins again on New ECW. This shocks everyone and out comes Khali who drives Dreamer down onto a chair. Laguna I hope is a Dreamer supporter since he's someone the fans have taken too. The Mick Foley esque underdog in a sense.
Big Show cuts a good promo on why he's gonna get back his title. Its a good spot to see. Good-bye Big Show , you will be missed.
Mike Knox does the best thing since he's debuted as he breaks up with Kelly and lays her out. Least that storyline ended and Taz climbs into the ring. I'd love to see Taz make a in ring return but he'd be buried as usual I suspect. Lets hope this takes Kelly and Knox off our TV's for now.
Lashley to his credit has people cheer for him since its before Smackdown. He's lucky they aren't on the road again as the fans get behind him at times. Its his best reaction since the European shows. Because he's gonna need them if he's gonna be the SUPERFACE that Vince loves.
Now as Big Show works this you have to wonder what Lashley will do for challengers. The problems with a Goldberg face is you need huge f-cking heels. ECW odds are will see Kane or Khali face Lashley in perhaps the worst TV build of all time. I can see why Heyman didn't want Lashley as a face since it really is gonna be hard to find people. All the while CM Punk plays mid-card b-tch , which is wrong to do since more fans seem into him .
The match itself was pretty good. Big Show can only do so much and Lashley's a beast to pick him up as we see. The match ends and so does the Big Show's WWE Career in a way as he loses and puts over Lashley.
The Bad
The funniest thing that proves that Vince cleary can't see ECW as different is the Kelly/Ariel match. Where Ariel is a sick twisted wannabe Vampire she jobs to Kelly , the usual hot blond WWE Diva who is what we see on every brand. God forbid we actually push someone who looks like a twisted freak for the Old ECW fans. What we need is same old, same old.
Not enough long matches cleary. Plus the shows geared like Smackdown with a monster face who can defy all . I like Lashley but I would like to see him face normal heels who could give him a run and with Show out , hows that gonna be possible ? Unless Matt Striker , Bob Holly or Test form a heel group on ECW and take the title.
OVERALL: **1/2 Outta 5. Laguna has a lot of work to do. To convince Rob Van Dam and Sabu to stick as well as Dreamer. They should just accept that with Heyman gone the vision is just screwed. Since their doing the same thing on New ECW as we see in Smackdown and RAW. I just wonder if RVD's wife will show up and do TNA chants anymore ?