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Originally Posted by Jaded-Dragon
I'm disgusted to say the least. How does one go from the awesome-ness of last years ONS, to this WWE watered down bullshit? Last nights show not only officially made me hate the new ECW, it made me not want to watch raw anymore out of shear spite towards Vince McMahon.
This years ONS was a joke, and that is including the main event. The Tazz (yes, that was not TAZ) Lawler match was a joke. I thought Taz said he had one left in him? That wasn't "ONE" that was 1/10th. All that hype (probably the best hyping of any match, worked-shoot wise) for a 15 second squash? If you can even call that a squash.
Angle vs Orton? Typical WWE style match, did you really think you could get away with doing rest holds in front of an ECW crowd? A real ECW crowd?
Sabu vs Mysterio, this match had me going, butit was too damn short. I don't mind the ending, but it should of been another 15 minutes into the match. This match was one of the few things that represented what ECW was about. Rey pulled out a few moves I wouldn't see on Smackdown and Sabu was in a homicidal state. It ended too fucking soon. At the very least, they could of gone to a 30 min time limit draw.
Edge and Foley vs Dreamer and Funk. This was what I expected, a tagmatch that degenerated into a hardcore brawl. I even expected Edge and Foley to win. As much as I hate Edge, they should of moved him and not Big Show into ECW.
FBI vs Tajiri and Super Crazy. I think the ref pissed me off more than anything. Tajiri came in to break up a pin fall and the ref was pushing him back and telling him to get back to his corner? That's not ECW!!! What the hell is that bull shit? At least the match itself was decent, although not very hardcore.
Mahoney vs Tanaka. A match I was very much looking forward to. Again, it was decent, but ended far too quickly. And with a single chair shot? I recall Tanaka taking 3 or 4 stiff chair shots from Mike Awesome lastyear. Not to mention an Awesome bomb through a table, and he still didn't stay down.
And finally, the main event. It was the crowd that made this match enjoyable, and that's it. It's a sad damn day when John fucking Cena does more hardcore moves in a match than RVD does. I don't think RVD should of squashed him, or completely dominated. It SHOULD of been a tough grueling match for both guys. That way RVD and Cena both come out looking good. Instead, we get RVD basically getting his ass beat the entire match, not doing anything he normally wouldn't do in WWE, and then not even winning cleanly. It was like saying RVD couldn't beat Cena on his own, because he was getting his ass handed to him the whole match until Edge put Cena through a table. There's always going to be that little asterisk next to that match. It pisses me off that RVD can have 40 minute marathon matches with Jerry Lynn, but he can't beat Cena by himself. Fuck that. It's like they were saying, "Well, you finally get your World Title reign Rob, but first... We decided it would be best if we kicked you in the nuts really hard".
And next we have the ECW debut on Sci-fi. I was expecting some sort redemption in the show after last nights horrid PPV, but again I was slapped in the face.
I'm not even going to address the fact that Cena got a bigger pop than RVD.
The Angle squash was BS. And not even the fact that he squashed Justin Credible, who I don't feel one way or the other about, but the fact that JC can no longer be taken seriously. It was UNNECESSARY for Angle to squash anybody. This is your first ECW show and you want to represent it by having Angle squash a former ECW champ? WTF!! Again, this was not ECW. ECW was about giving people oppurtunities that they may not get elsewhere. They could of used this platform to elevate JC, or any other ECW guy, and all they would have to do is give Angle a run for his money. We get it, Angle is a wrestling machine, how about showing me what an untamed Super Crazy can do against him?
The Zombie.... Ya know, one of the things I loved about ECW... They brung realism to wrestling. They despised gimmicks like the Boogeyman, The Undertaker, Ultimate Warrior, etc. And here we are today with a fucking Zombie going against The Sandman, and a god damned Vampire set to make his debut. Fuck that. In ECW wrestling was the forefront of everything. Not some stupid ass comic book gimmick that attracts kids. The gimmicks in ECW were always very subtle and realistic. Raven was that outcast, Taz was the bad ass, RVD was the cocky arogant prick, etc. This is just BS.
And to end the show, I'm encouraged to see Sabu vs Cena again.... Didn't I just see that? Haven't we already been over that Sabu is at his best we he is working with someone that compliments his style?
All in all, this entire fucking thing is stupid. I don't know how Paul or RVD can go through with this shit and still sleep at night. Was I expecting the old school ECW? Certainly not, but I definitely was not expecting this to be a third show for the WWE. A show that is only good to hype PPV's even more and bring dumbass gimmick characters into before they move them to RAW or Smackdown. I know that ECW is dead, but we've crossed that line of straight pissing on its legacy. I was just hoping for a show that Paul E. would be in charge of, where I didn't have to deal with stupid fucking gimmicks like the Spirit Squad, and I could just watch Wrestlers wrestle.
I give it a month before the SS shows up at ECW.
I'm not going to go over all the other things that need to be done, like the showings in smaller venues and such, those have all been said in this thread already. And I really don't think it's going to make a damn bit of difference.
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