Hunter's Torn Quad 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 by Adam Clarke and Ian Hamilton Notes: They're allowing signs into the arena tonight, after Raw was devoid of them thanks to some overzealous arena staff. WWE's interviewing kids around the building, probably for a video package at some point, and we'll be going live with dark matches and ECW in 25 minutes or so. The arena's half full as we go through the usual videos... Dark Match: Tommy Dreamer beat Carl Ouelette with a DDT. ECW ECW opens with John Morrison coming out, wanting fans to vote for him at the PPV. They show a replay of Punk v Morrison from last week. Out comes Miz, who gets the fans to vote for him... then out comes Big Daddy V and Matt Striker. It's the same "I want that title shot" angle we've seen a billion times. Out comes CM Punk who says he doesn't care who his opponent is at the PPV... and his mystery partner tonight is Kane! That match starts off the show; Punk still has the taped ribs and is really over. Everyone works over Punk's ribs as the crowd chants "who are ya?" to the Miz. Punk gets a hot tag to Kane, who gets into a staredown with Big Daddy V. Miz gets a blind tag and is promptly chokeslammed for as Kane gets the win. "Match wasn't bad - quite long for ECW" Cyber Sunday run-down now. Long period of downtime follows, causing the crowd to ger restless. Miz and John Morrison argue backstage, and Miz cheapshots Morrison, leading to our main event... because they didn't fly out the full ECW roster, I presume! Balls Mahoney is interviewed about how he likes Kelly Kelly. KK asks Balls out... and their date is TONIGHT~! They have an announcement about the talent merger, and our next match is Jesse & Festus vs Elijah Burke & Nunzio. Jesse pinned Nunzio with a flying cross body off the top in a quick match. Burke walked out after the match, and our main event is next! Miz v Morrison ends in a no-contest as Big Daddy V comes out and squashes both men, then poses, and that's the end of ECW! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haVoc 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 That's just awful sounding. I usually record ECW and fast forward through most. Probably won't even do that this week. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haws bah gawd 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 Holy shit, where'd they dig up Nunzio? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hawk 34 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 Holy shit, where'd they dig up Nunzio? He has done sporadic shows here and there recently. I don't know if they will hit Italy on this tour but I assume they brought him along for that reason. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanks for the Fish 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 Call me nuts, but I like the idea of the SD!/ECW merger of sorta. It opens up a ton of fresh match possibilities... I don't like the random Nunzio/Burke pairing though, at least Burke walked out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedJed 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 This sounds like the most uncreative and thrown together ECW show in a long time. I'm all for a SD/ECW merger, but this is not a good start. Can we say booking on the fly to the EXTREME here?!! How sad is it that I will be watching the show primarily to see a Kelly-Balls date. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hawk 34 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 The only plus about this is that we can see some really fresh matches now. Morrison/Punk, while solid throughout the first 25 installments, is throughly overdone. Now, they can lead to stuff like Finlay-Punk, Punk-MVP, Punk-Hardy and maybe we'll finally see Punk-Noble again which was always a blast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AntiLeaf33 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 So now we will essentially have 2 rosters? I can live with that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ginger Snaps 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 so does the show start with the Punk / Kane tag match or will they edit that to be the main event? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted October 17, 2007 A) they should go back to extreme rules for the ECW matches at least if they are going to do a brand merger B) Punk and Kane teaming is kinda fun. They should switch themes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
