[Mo Wonderboy]

Stevie Richards is absolutely first class, played loads of different roles perfectly. TNA will hopefully give him some good material to work with.

[Shuggie_Murray7]

Loved his debut segment as Dr.Stevie

[DomDom]

ECW on Sci-Fi 19/02/2008

Incase that writing isn't big enough and the million previous similar posts I've done aren't enough, I'm going to spoiler tag this baby.

Spoiler

Cracking looking main event, with Jack Swagger and Mark Henry vs. Christian and Finlay.

Paul Burchill vs. The Boogeyman

Burchill did a spoof of Christian Bale which leads to this match. I can't say that I approve. Well, I approve of the reasons, but The Boogeyman ? He's awful. The fact that a match this short managed to be so bad has to be a sign of how bad Boogeyman is. I know for a fact that Burchill is better than crap like this. Of course, he'll probably get sacked soon, so it's no big deal really.

ECW Title on the line as Jack Swagger defends against Christian next week.

John Morrison vs. Tommy Dreamer

Tommy Dreamer is on a losing streak for anyone wondering, so I can only guess he's gonna lose here. Dreamer takes a nasty bump from the apron to the floor. How about some ouch with that ouch ? Actually a decent wee match and well plotted out. Morrison managed to look really good here, but it was helped by the midmatch drama of The Miz's interference. You have to wonder where exactly they're going to do with Dreamer at the end of this.

Backstage with Finlay and Hornswoggle and Christian decides to join the party and gets whipped with a towel. Finlay says he and his son will keep their end up.

ECW are BIG time hyping Evan Bourne's return.

Tyson Kidd vs. Caden Matthews

Kidd looked absolutely brilliant this week, and considering how short a time he was in the ring, that is a hell of an achievement. That Elbow Drop he did at the end matched any I ever seen from HBK or even Randy Savage himself.

Tommy Dreamer and Ricky Ortiz are backstage. f**k OFF RICKY !!! I'm not even covering this.

Mark Henry and Jack Swagger vs. Christian and Finlay

Has anyone noticed that the usual "come back from commercial breaks with a Chinlock" thing is happening less and less in WWE at the moment ? I actually said to myself "no headlock when we come back" and sure enough, there wasn't one. It didn't take long for one to happen though. Another tag match on TV where you feel the guys can do this stuff in their sleep. It says a lot for the improvement of Mark Henry that he can do that as well now. It's just little things he's added, like adding snap to his moves. Anyhoo, decent main event.

OVERALL
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The usual inoffensive hour of wrestling from ECW. This Tyson Kidd fellow looks like one to watch, while the Finlay/Hornswoggle thing intrigues as does the Tommy Dreamer situation. Simple booking, and it's working, as ECW is still the most entertaining of the three brands on a consistant basis. While RAW and Smackdown have amazing times and bad times, ECW constantly puts on the same decent standard every week.

[Mo Wonderboy]

Tyson Kidd (AKA TJ Wilson) is a wrestler I've been high on for a while, coming from the dungeon he is obviously technically profficient. The main thing that sets him apart from being your generic technician is his mic skills which we haven't had the chance to see yet on ECW. If only he was an actual relation to the Hart family he would have been fast tracked up quicker.

[DomDom]

Indeed. WWE were even willing to give the fake Hart ( Teddy Hart ) a shot and he blew it twice due to his awful attitude. I'm sure that didn't help Wilson who is a great friend of Hart and no doubt would have backed him up big time. He's made it to TV eventually, and I'll be damned if he isn't shocking he hell out of me.

My one and only experience of TJ Wilson before now was his god awful match with Teddy Hart on an ROH show way back in 2003.

[Shuggie_Murray7]

God I hate Teddy Hart aka the spot monkey

[DomDom]

I'm a huge Teddy Hart fan. His main event fued with Homicide in JAPW has some of my favourite matches of the decade so far, including a MENTAL triple threat match which had Eddie Kingston in it as well. He's a spot monkey, but in the AJ Styles mould. He knows when to get his spots in.

I have major problems with his attitude though. The number of places he's found himself blackballed from is incredible, and has also made some pretty bad enemies in the wrestling world.

[Shuggie_Murray7]

I'm the only personI know who doesn't reckon AJ Styles is a spot monkey. All my mates say he is but I disagree. Maybe in the very early days of TNA but for the most part I would say he isn't.

[DomDom]

You don't have to be flashy to be a spot monkey. Styles was actually better in his earlier days because he HAD the moves and knew exactly how to use them. That is what set him apart from the other guys in the X Division, and it's what made him one of the best in the world at that point.

He's lost a lot of that because he's lost the flash. He's going to need to get that back if TNA want him in the main event scene, because it looks like they do.

[Shuggie_Murray7]

He wouldn't reach the main event using all the high spots. Guys already in the main event like Angle and Sting couldnt keep up with him.

[DomDom]

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He wouldn't reach the main event using all the high spots. Guys already in the main event like Angle and Sting couldnt keep up with him.

The other guy doesn't necessarily keep up. Just take the moves.

[Shuggie_Murray7]

DomDom, on Feb 19 2009, 18:44, said:

The other guy doesn't necessarily keep up. Just take the moves.

Thats what I mean. The pace he wrestle at is way too fast for the likes of Sting and the older guys in the main event.

[Mo Wonderboy]

Promo Goodness... 5 young stars of the future hopefully.

This post has been edited by Mo Wonderboy: 19 February 2009 - 19:14

[Shuggie_Murray7]

DH Smith fucked himself. They were gonna bring him and Wilson to ECW together but Smith decided he would talk with Raw management to try and talk his way into Randy Ortons Legacy and in turn got his push revoked.

Also I fukin love Colt.......I jus wish he would change his name back.

This post has been edited by Shuggie_Murray7: 19 February 2009 - 19:31

[DomDom]

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Thats what I mean. The pace he wrestle at is way too fast for the likes of Sting and the older guys in the main event.

Taking his moves away doesn't help that. If he wrestles fast, he wrestles fast, no matter how big his moveset is.

[Poet of the Macabre]

I can't believe anyone enjoys ECW. I have tried countless times but I have to switch it off.

This post has been edited by revolvingduck: 19 February 2009 - 22:46

[Rugster]

With all the Hoo Hah about this Piper and Jericho skit, I felt that I had to tune in to watch.


BIG WOWEEE.

What a load of shite.

And for a "Scotsman", thon "Rowdy Roddy Piper" sure does have a damn good Canadian accent!


Pile of shite!

[Mo Wonderboy]

revolvingduck, on Feb 19 2009, 22:46, said:

I can't believe anyone enjoys ECW. I have tried countless times but I have to switch it off.

I regularly find ECW to be the best tv WWE produce.

[DomDom]

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I regularly find ECW to be the best tv WWE produce.

Indeed.

It's no nonsense and the in ring action is mostly decent. Most of the time is spent in the ring and it has done wonders for the likes of Miz, Morrison, Kingston, Punk and even made Chavo Guerrero into a decent heel.

There isn't much of the "soap opera" crap that you find on the other brands. Two guys don't like each other. Sometimes they DO like each other, but there's tension. And there is only ever one goal for someone in ECW. Winning the belt. And you feel that ANYONE on that brand can hold the title at any one time.

EDIT : http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti. ..;VideoID=454206

The sliding People's Elbow

This post has been edited by DomDom: 19 February 2009 - 23:38

[RussellV1]

Just tuned in to RAW & was met with the image of Randy Orton sporting an obscene amount of baby oil

[Poet of the Macabre]

tbh, the wrestling isn't always most important thing to me. The whole "soap opera" stuff is part of the fun.

Many people say that wrestling is like a circus, if you don't like the clown you'll like the trapeeze artist etc. But I enjoy the whole circus. I like the wrestling, the stroylines, the girls, the comedy, the fans. If you have a show which is too top-heavy then chances are, I won't enjoy it.

[RussellV1]

Greatest T-shirt ever?

[KilliePie]

RussellV1, on Feb 20 2009, 01:45, said:

Greatest T-shirt ever?

Bloddy hell thats awful, but no doubt every 8 year old will be wearing either that or a Cena shirt at every show now.

Just watched this again, epic.

[TheScarf]

Why have all the wrestlers in the past year suddenly become all bronzed beauties? Is Vinny Mac insisting they all spend an hour a day on the sunbeds?

[perth_saintee12]

Ecw is a load of pish