ECW Thread - 1/12/10: The ECW Homecoming FINALE
 

NO SPOILERS, PLEASE!

Welcome, everyone! As usual, enjoy the show!

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Interesting opening bit with Ryder and Hurricane...

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That was a milk-out-of-the-nose moment!

BTW, Helms is getting a little chubby in the mid-section - just like his buddy Matt Hardy.

Yeah for sure. Somebody needs to stop hitting the all you can eat Hurribuffet so hard.

<font color=goldenrod>Zack Ryder rules.

That is all.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>CM Punk wins and molds ECW in his image?

They've been thinking of rebranding the show in some way...it's possible</font>

Pretty sick move by Baretta with the spinning leg drop on Goldy's head while on the ring apron.

ECW Becomes SEW - Straight-Edge Wrestling??

Holy high knee, Batman!

Cm punk turns everyone on ECW straight edge and starts a war with the rest of the WWE.

Or not.

Rose Mendez can't speak Spanish

Gallows not coming out with Punk? Wonder if there's something "up" with that.

This is so stupid..they've hyped this up for a long time and the pay off only has about 10 minutes. Stupid

Man, Evan only lasted a tiny bit more than Santino in last year's Rumble.

Incredibly stupid tactical move, Shelton.

There went the two favorites in my mind.

<font color=goldenrod>Christian acting pretty heelish on the mic</font>

im pissed off now, thank you

<font color=goldenrod>Really hope Kane doesn't win this. It'd likely mean the end of his 11-year Royal Rumble match streak, as guys rarely pull double duty anymore.</font>

no worries, Vito.

<font color=goldenrod>ZEKE!</font> :cool:

Does Zeke win at RR, only to Finger-Poke of Doom the belt to Regal???

Let's hope not.

Ezekiel Jackson?? You have to be kidding me

Zeke vs Christian at RR? I don't like this 1 bit, but I don't see Zeke winning either.

The only upside to Zeke winning would be that it would free Christian up to finally get moved to another show. Hopefully Smackdown.

Also maybe it would give the belt to someone that it doesn't look so misproportioned on.

belt is kinda big

It's like twice the size of Christian's head. :lol:

It looked fine on Mark Henry and would look fine on Zeke, but it kind of looked ridiculous on Swagger and even worse on Christian.

well when they made the belt Henry was champion so I guess that is why it was made a little bigger

Yeah that's what I figured, but to me it's almost comedic looking on Christian. I'm not saying he's a bad champ or anything by any means, but just the belt looks so wierd on an average size guy.

agreed. It looks weird on Christian and it also did on Matt Hardy

Oh yeah forgot about him, you're right.

well maybe Big Zeke can take it off Christian's hands so thet he can be moved to Smackdown

I hope so, I like Big Zeke for some reason. Zeke and Koslov both.

I like Zeke. I never cared too much for Koslov. it's not that i don't like him it's just a meh thing

Yeah I understand I was the same way on him until his fued with Hunter on Smackdown.

That was a good program. so was the Taker/Koslov feud

Yep. I'm going to fully attribute all of that to Koslov. :shifty:

:shifty:

I see Zeke winning, Regal telling him to hand over the title to him, Zeke telling Regal to fuck off, Zeke face turn, etc.

You think they'd turn Zeke face that fast? Didn't they just do a face turn with Koslov as is?

So what? Zeke doesn't seem to be feuding with Kozlov, and really, Kozlov doesn't seem like much of a face. What has he done to appeal to the crowd? Get kicked out of a stable that they already hated? What makes him a face there?

i guess kozlov is on his way out

I don't know, that's my point. I just remember him teaming with Goldust and Tatsu a few weeks ago if memory serves and as we know, the crowd likes Tatsu and Goldust so I don't know what their angle is with Kozlov.

I don't remember him teaming with them. Show me video evidence.

Do it quickly too, I have a lunch date.

Nm AT. I was wrong.

JUST AS I SUSPECTED.

My eyes must've played tricks on me and I thought I read he was in a tag match with them, but as you suspected, I was wrong and I fail.

You're right in that he's not much of a face. But one night a few weeks back, IIRC, Kozlov wanted to fight Zeke and Regal wanted to keep the old band around, so Regal, Kozlov & Zeke had a 6-man against Yoshi Tatsu, Christian, and (I wanna say Goldust, but is that right?), and I think Regal and Zeke tried to sneak off on Kozlov, but Kozlov stood up to Regal and tried to attack him or something, but then in the post-match Regal and Zeke double-teamed Kozlov.

That's probably why I'd have to guess they consider him a heel, if the canon of that storyline is to be believed at all. But I still boo the fuck out of Kozlov, I think of him as a heel to this day, and treat Zeke as the hero, because let's face it, Zeke can go in the ring, Kozlov? Not as much as when he first debuted. Still not gonna give two monkey shits about him fighting Christian for the title at the Rumble. Guess I know which match will be my "piss break" match that night at the bar...

Ummm their IS going to be a Diva's Title match that night you know? I swear if it's Maryse vs Eve and Eve wins, I'll be pissed.

Plan before Melina's injury was to have Maryse win back the belt - don't know why they would change that now.

I'd be happy with at least 1 Gail Kim title run, but as we all know, Vince is going to job her out till she leaves again for TNA. :|

Yes, I realize the "Final" of the RAW Divas' Championship tournament will be held then. I dunno, I guess I can kinda see how a lot of people on here view the divas as a waste of TV time, especially on a PPV, but on the other hand, I think it's nice to have the divas come in and do their thing in the middle of the show. A lot are very talented in WWE right now, and plus, I don't know about you, Ermax, but my eyes need a 5-10 minute break out of the rest of the 3 hours being devoted to scantily clad men.

Point taken. If only there were more topless women's wrestling matches.

Last year's Diva match at the Royal Rumble was pretty great, for the record. I will forever love the spot with Beth Phoenix kicking the back of Melina's head with Melina's own foot.

Atta boy, Cool King(!)

There's a fed that might be right up your alley then: http://www.wextremew.com/ (Women's Extreme Wrestling)

Yes, they use all sorts of weapons and everything else, but. there's also a whole another meaning to 'extreme' when it comes to these lovely ladies, if ya catch my drift...:naughty:

Titties bouncing around and shit?

I first read that as TITLES...

not reading FTL...