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Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: August 24, 2013, 3:24 am
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Someone asked for something American or British this week, never
man to turn down a request let us look at potential disaster in
the waiting. ECW One Night Stand.
This isn't of course the ECW we know and love, the violence, the
risqué content, the profanity laced interviews. Well okay it is,
but its the first steps WWE made towards ruining the legacy of a
company whose star had shone so brightly years before. This is
the second One Night Stand and marked the relaunch of ECW as a
different entity. I chose this one because its an interesting
mix of WWE presentation and ECW before the WWE ideas took over
and brought us something not that good. Bobby Lashley as
Champion anyone? Kelly Kelly? Mike Knox? Oh yeah we are still
stuck with him, but for a while there it was all good in the
hood and as usual, most bad ideas do start with good intentions.
The premise of this PPV began with The Money in the Bank ladder
match held at Wrestlemania that year won by none other than Rob
Van Damn. With Vince more than willing to put himself on TV to
fire up the feud a lot of the angles wrote themselves. The first
match on the card, Tazz vs Jerry Lawler was quick. Inevitable
really as Tazz is permanently retired through injury. This
stemmed back from the days of ECW taking over Raw to support
their first Barely Legal PPV, a rehashed angle but with strong
heat. Jerry Lawler was Satan to ECW fans, and if you've seen the
night that Raven left ECW you will see how hot he was. Next we
have Kurt Angle vs Randy Orton, which is especially interesting
because Angle's first foray into pro wrestling was with ECW. He
attended one show and left when Raven crucified the Sandman
swearing up and down he would never get involved with Paul
Heyman again. So why he ended up being an ECW guy is beyond me,
though he fit into things quite well, and as always the ECW fans
gave good wrestlers respect. This match leads on to a good
comedy aside. The FBI vs Super Crazy and Taijiri. Crazy and
Taijiri both made their names in ECW and by then had been WWE
regulars as had the FBI, this showed in a more polished version
of the ECW three way dances Guido, Taijiri and Crazy worked in
the early 2000's. Then it was on to the business end of things.
Sabu vs Rey Mistero for the World's Heavyweight Championship, oh
sorry World's Championship, like not calling it heavyweight was
going to make us think Rey wasn't 190lbs and 5' 9. Anyways, this
was a very good match, and full of the things both where famous
for, they lived up to their legacy. However Sabu was about 6
years past his prime and Rey was in on of those spots in his
career where he wasn't injured, though he looked like he could
be injured at any time. The two ECW veterans knew what the crowd
at the Hammerstien Ballroom wanted though and they gave it to
them, the match ending in a no finish, which back in the day
would have caused a riot. Maybe the ECW fans had calmed down?
Mick Foley, Lita and Edge vs Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer and
Buelah. This match is another booking choice oddity. Cactus Jack
was the first true star of the fledgling ECW in 1993, his work
for them while with WCW as tag champion made the company name
(along with some incredible matches with Sabu). The angle came
from real emotional interplay between Paul Heyman and Mick
Foley. Heyman had called Foley a prostitute for going to the WWE
in real life, and they cut some of the some rabid promos that
hark back to the days of the Anti Hardcore ECW interviews that
where quite possibly the best interviews ever done in wrestling.
This was a nostalgia match for sure. Even Terry Funk who I do
believe will go on for ever didn't look good, despite taking
most of the big bumps. He was outpaced by younger talent in the
opening of the match. But did they put their bodies on the line?
You bet they did. All in the name of ECW, which for Edge was
quite the thing having not been an ECW guy to begin with. As
this is really a WWE show we had what The Masked Man calls “the
palate cleanser”, something a bit more throwaway before we got
onto more serious business. Balls Mahoney and Tanaka put
together a fun, chair shot laden, high spots match that you
would come to expect from those two really. Did what it said on
the tin and gets us to the main.
John Cena vs RVD for the WWE title. There have been crowds
bigger than this for WWE title match, but none more vocal. This
was the birth of “Cena Wins, We Riot” (okay those fans hadn't
calmed down at all). This is where Cena began his route to being
a heel in the 18-30 male demographic and clearly he loved it.
Having not been a heel for so long he revelled in the fact that
he could do as he liked, all he had to do was be himself and do
his regular thing and he was over like no other guy in front of
any ECW crowd. They hated him of course, RVD was God for a
night, but if you want to see where the kernels of the Second
Summer of Punk come from, this is it. Daniel Bryan's feud
against John Cena? That starts here to. As Punk said himself if
there was one city that appreciates Daniel Bryan more than any
other its Philadelphia. Bryan and Punk would have been right at
home in the old ECW, and as we know Punk made the new ECW his
brand. This match of course would not be in Philly, its in New
York. The sentiment is the same though wherever you go, and it
gave Cena, and Vince, the chance to see the possibilities of
where things could go. It wasn't the first time he was booed,
London crowds have always been particularly unkind to Cena, and
Boston doesn't seem to hold home town advantage any more, but
back then this was something very different and it worked
perfectly.
Of course in the end the idea of an ECW relaunch turned out to
be a dud. The wrong bits of ECW came forward, the philosophy of
breaking new talent and trying to make stars would not happen
until NXT 6 years later. RVD was caught in possession about a
week later, the TV show sucked because they didn't take it
seriously enough and on top of that RVD, Paul Heyman and Tommy
Dreamer, the architects of the new ECW did not have enough power
over the WWE old order; Michael Hayes, Vince McMahon and Kevin
Dunn to make the show work with one vision. However at the
beginning there, it was a sight to see.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1dVQvIfs8
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: 01332tnafan
Date: August 24, 2013, 5:02 am
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I use to like the one night only ECW PPV things but when WWE
tryed making it a pg show for me it stopped being ECW then and
just a WWE show.
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: August 24, 2013, 5:07 am
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It doesn't really matter to me that it was PG, its that it was
just another show, it didn't break any new ground or present
things in a new way. NXT does that way better than WWEECW ever
did.
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: tnagirl
Date: August 24, 2013, 10:07 am
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That was a good show .. I use to like it when they did the one
night only ECW PPV thing
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: August 24, 2013, 10:36 am
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I guess it was hard keeping it special, especially when they
started blurring brands and you know the booking on ECW being
what it was.
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: August 24, 2013, 3:04 pm
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Actually there was tons of blood on it. Ric Flair split a gusher
in his first appearance against the Big Show, this show had barb
wire, blood thumbtacks and tables. Bob Holly caught a table in
the back and had 50 stitches in him on one show and that was
just on the TV show.
The big issue it was another case of "Vince knows best". I like
the comparison to NXT just because its what WWEECW should have
been, a place to break new talent that was different. Not a low
rent Smackdown.
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: August 24, 2013, 3:09 pm
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--- Quote from: SheriffLonestar link ---
>
> Actually there was tons of blood on it. Ric Flair split a
gusher in his first appearance against the Big Show, this show
had barb wire, blood thumbtacks and tables. Bob Holly caught a
table in the back and had 50 stitches in him on one show and
that was just on the TV show.
>
> The big issue it was another case of "Vince knows best". I
like the comparison to NXT just because its what WWEECW should
have been, a place to break new talent that was different. Not a
low rent Smackdown.
>
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. You got a vid of the bob holly one mate
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: August 24, 2013, 3:15 pm
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Sure, more accidental than intentional but blood none the less.
Tough old bastard kept going like usual.
HTML http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ce4r_rvd-vs-hardcore-holly-extreme-rules_sport
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: August 24, 2013, 3:24 pm
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--- Quote from: SheriffLonestar link ---
>
> Sure, more accidental than intentional but blood none the
less. Tough old bastard kept going like usual.
>
>
HTML http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ce4r_rvd-vs-hardcore-holly-extreme-rules_sport
>
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lol he is one crazy sob lol But that is because he is old
school and just keeps going lol
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Prelude to a Car Crash
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: August 24, 2013, 3:27 pm
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Was that the RVD match when his back was cut open ? I think they
use to show that on WWE when they was telling you not to try it
at home lol .
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