[Fire-Babe]

Not that anyone cares at this point, and I'm not even certain I do....

Preview:
Extreme centennial

After countless chokeslams, frog splashes and Go To Sleeps, ECW on Sci Fi will celebrate its 100th episode on Tuesday. Armando Estrada has extreme plans for the historic show. The ECW General Manager will face a contract-seeking Colin Delaney, but will Extreme dreams turn into another nightmare for the hopeful? Or will the youngster finally earn a coveted contract on ECW’s 100th episode?

The self-proclaimed “Mexican Warrior” soldiered his way past the Big Red Machine on ECW on Sci Fi on Tuesday night. Thanks to a little help from his bodyguard, Bam Neely, Chavo Guerrero picked up a non-title, Handicap Match win over ECW Champion Kane. A vengeful Guerrero has his sights firmly set on the Big Red Machine’s ECW gold, but will he ever be able to win back the Championship? Was Neely’s impressive in-ring debut on ECW this week a positive sign for Guerrero’s future in the Land of the Extreme?

Also on the centennial episode, Tommy Dreamer will face his recent rival, Mike Knox, in an Extreme Rules Match. Will the ECW Original finally get revenge on Knox, who in recent weeks defeated Dreamer and his friend, Delaney?

Kofi Kingston remains undefeated in ECW action, as the Jamaican Superstar defeated Shelton Benjamin for the second week in a row. If the Gold Standard can’t stop Kingston, who will? Will the happy-go-lucky favorite of our fans continue to dominate?

To find out the answers to these questions and more, tune into Tuesday’s ECW on Sci Fi at 10/9 CT. It’s destined to be a historic night as the Land of the Extreme turns 100. Also, be sure to catch ECW in its entirety every week on WWE.com, available from Wednesday to the following Monday afternoon.

No mention of announcer shenannigans, or any of the other recent weirdness...so you know there will be some..

[Fire-Babe]

I feel like shit, so this will be short bullet point recap. I'll add more details when I rewatch this do the full one OOver there.

Mike Adamle comes down the ramp to meet with Tazz at the table to a chorus of boos. Tazz says he walked off in support of Adamle. Adamle grabs a mic and hops in the ring. He apologizes for being unprofessional, touts his qualifications. But says he had no idea how hard the job was. So he's going to give it the ol' college try. And that would be that.

Match 1: Tommy Dreamer v. Mike Knox

Extreme rules match. Stevie Richards sits at the table. Lots of implements. I should note, Dreamer set up the table, and also went through it. Winner Mike Knox in a match that had absolutely nothing to do with extreme rules.

Match 2: Kofi Kingston v. Matt Striker

Shelton joins the broadcast table in place of Stevie Richards. Mostly a squash. Winner Kofi Kingston then Shelton comes in and lays out Kofi.

Colin gets ready to come out for his match, and the entire ECW locker room is behind him clapping.

Match 3: Colin Delaney v. Arrrrmando Alejandrrrrro Estrrrrada

Contract match. AAE looking rather buff. Wellness program is AWESOME. And after some stuff Winner Colin Delaney!!!!

Colin celebrates with his fans, Tazz grabs a mic to ask him the obvious questions, like "How does it feel?" Colin gives the obvious answers.

Match 4: Chavo/Bam Neely v. CM Punk/Kane

Miz and Morrison take up the slack now at the announce table. In the middle of a fairly standard tag team match with all your usual tag team elements, there's the world's longest commercial break. The match itself isn't terrible, but it is also nothing new and unique and, you know, CELEBRATORY. Punk eventually gets the pin. Winners: Punk/Kane

You know, I originally felt bad about not feeling like doing a lot of detail, but if WWE can half-ass this 'big event' of a show, then I can half-ass my recap.

Oh, and fuck you, Vince.

[jetskid48]

No RVD, No Sandman, No Sabu, No Shane Douglas, No Steve Corino, No Balls Mahoney, No Axl Rotten, No New Jack, No Rhino, No Mike Awesome, No Justin Credible, No Lance Storm, No Raven, No Cactus Jack, No Terry Funk, No Mikey Whipwreck, No Dawn Marie, No 2 Cold Scopio, No Bam Bam Bigelow, No Tanaka, No Tajiri, No Public Enemy, No Dudley, No Gangstas, No Chris Candido, No Spike Dudley, No Paul Heyman, No "Taz", No Joey Styles...

But don't worry, we've still got Tommy Dreamer!



And Kofi Kingston!!!!!!!


It's the ECW 100th Episode - Tonight - 10 on Sci-Fi Network!

[Demko]

I agree. Fuck you, Vince. :-P

[Concrete TG]

May 6, 2008 15:36:41 GMT -5 jetskid48 said:

No RVD, No Sandman, No Sabu, No Shane Douglas, No Steve Corino, No Balls Mahoney, No Axl Rotten, No New Jack, No Rhino, No Mike Awesome, No Justin Credible, No Lance Storm, No Raven, No Cactus Jack, No Terry Funk, No Mikey Whipwreck, No Dawn Marie, No 2 Cold Scopio, No Bam Bam Bigelow, No Tanaka, No Tajiri, No Public Enemy, No Dudleys, No Gangstas, No Chris Candido, No Spike Dudley, No [glow=red,2,300]Paul Heyman[/glow], No "Taz", No Joey Styles...

But don't worry, we've still got Tommy Dreamer!

emphasis added.

this wasn't a celebration. It was a funeral - the official, final, public notice that ECW as "original" fans know it is dead.

I know that a lot of people said that it was dead at episode #1 when the Zombie shuffled out. but this was Vince sticking his middle finger so far someplace you got the fist, too.

"Uncle Paul" declared Vince's ECW dead when he mentioned the ratings.

Fuck you, Vince.

[Lucky]

I won't say "Fuck you, Vince" because ECW died a long time ago. And I actually am kind of amazed that anyone remained who thought of this ECW as anything remotely connected to that ECW. I mean, I'll argue that for awhile there was real reason to connect them. But that died away more or less when RVD, Sabu, Sandman, and Dreamer were gone. It hasn't even pretended to be connected in a LONG time, so I don't see the big deal. This is a show with Kane, Chavo, Punk, Miz, Morrisson, Shelton, Kofi, Colin, etc. That's all. To have expected anything but them last night would have been stupid.

Did someone actually expect RVD? I mean seriously? I thought we got over this shit at least 6 months ago.

[Andy]

May 6, 2008 15:36:41 GMT -5 jetskid48 said:

No RVD, No Sandman, No Sabu, No Shane Douglas, No Steve Corino, No Balls Mahoney, No Axl Rotten, No New Jack, No Rhino, No Mike Awesome, No Justin Credible, No Lance Storm, No Raven, No Cactus Jack, No Terry Funk, No Mikey Whipwreck, No Dawn Marie, No 2 Cold Scopio, No Bam Bam Bigelow, No Tanaka, No Tajiri, No Public Enemy, No Dudley, No Gangstas, No Chris Candido, No Spike Dudley, No Paul Heyman, No "Taz", No Joey Styles...

To be fair to WWE, its not like Awesome, Bam Bam and Public Enemy were really options.

[creepy]

Also in fairness, this was ECW on Sci-Fi's 100th episode "Extravaganza", not ECW's 100th episode "Extravaganza."

He could rename the show, though.

[bdoriginal]

Not that I expected anything crazy or something, but if anything, shouldn't the main event have been Extreme Rules with as many bodies as possible. Have it start off as a simple tag match between Miz/Morrison and Punk/Kane. Chavo and Bam run out to fuck up Kane a bit, M&M destory punk until Moore Wang show up and Wang can kill himself with a moonsault that puts somebody through a table. Just have some sort of crazy mad brawl. Have newly contracted extremist Colin out there too. Just have people brawling until Kane recovers and just starts chokeslamming every warm body he can get his hand around only for Chavo to get the low blow/frogsplash combo only for Punk to nail him with the GTS and the match still ends on a happy note.

[Fire-Babe]

May 7, 2008 21:04:52 GMT -5 Lucky said:

I won't say "Fuck you, Vince" because ECW died a long time ago. And I actually am kind of amazed that anyone remained who thought of this ECW as anything remotely connected to that ECW.

Well, that's why I *don't* call it Extreme Championship Wrestling for OORecap, I call it "Entertainment Championship Wrestling." Cos I agree with you.

When it wants to, WWE can do 'special' shows right. So even with the roster of no one related to non-WWE-ECW (with the exception of Dreamer), I still had hopes it would be at least entertaining, because it can be, and maybe with at least one stunt booking. RVD is the likely choice because he's done it before, but I wasn't really expecting him, either.

Largely because I still have him locked in my basement, but that's another issue, for you chat-folks.

So, yeah I guess I did expect a bit more, but I wasn't surprised to get much, much less. Doesn't mean Vince doesn't deserve a healthy 'fuck you' in general.

[Lucky]

Eh, I guess I understand that they gave it a LITTLE hype as the 100th episode so people expect more than the regularly week in and week out. Because that's what we got. Basically the same show we've gotten for the last year since Benoit (and maybe further back since December to Dismember). But I guess I can KINDA understand people expecting a little something.

But it obviously wasn't gonna be a RAW Anniversary show or anything like that. They had done nothing really to make us think it would be anything besides note the "100th episode" aspect. Which in and of itself was probably a stupid mistake because they had the same old crap planned as usual.

Then again that retarded slow clap for Colin makes it seem like they thought THAT was the special thing we were watching for. Or maybe Adamle's explanation that never happened in something they stupidly thought we'd give a fuck about in their retarded announcer drama BS and walkoff. But I'm kind of surprised anyone even considered RVD for a second, because I as sure as shit didn't. What would be the point to even try to drag him out?

But I'm a glass half full kind of guy so I'll look at the bright side. Colin won his contract! Which means for the first time in FIVE GODDAMN MONTHS we know next week won't have him wrestling for his contract. Damn near half a year spent on that piece of shit story and its FINALLY over. Now he can move on to a new storyless feud with repetitive matches that get strung out until they come to unsatisfying ends well after everyone stopped caring. Happiness.

[bdbdbd]

I never expected RVD or really anyone else "ECW" to show up and do anything special, but I was hoping for at least something aside from clips, most of which weren't that great the first time and almost all of which involve people not in the brand or even the company anymore (Sandman, Holly, Cor Von, RVD).

[Fire-Babe]

recap is finally up OOver there:

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