Inside Pulse’s LIVE ECW One Night Stand Report

Show starts out with a pan of the Hammerstein ballroom and the trademarked music.

Joey Styles comes out to a huge ovasion and starts out with a hearty OH MY GOD! He introduces Mick Foley as the color guy.

Rob Blatt: While this might not be exactly “ECW Production”, it does remind me of the 90’s RAW from the Manhattan Center, although, I’d argue that this is what ECW would look like today had they continued.

It’s also very nice to see Jericho take a chance here by changing his usual style and adapting his older Lionheart style. And I’m not sure who the crowd really is tonight, butit’s nice to hear the “f*ck ’em up” chants and the “you suck dick” chants at the Coach earlier in the night

Lance Storm w/Dawn Marie vs. “Lionheart” Chris Jericho
Back and forth match. Storm does a delayed vertical suplex in his style. Crowd chants many things, including “Holy Shit” and also “Chris Candido”. Storm tries a cradle piledriver, Jericho backdrops, Storm lands pretty clean and hits a sweet superkick for a 2 count.

For those of us curious if Jericho can still go like a cruiserweight, this should answer most of your questions, while these guys might not have the speed they did when they were younger, they can still goin the ECW style

Finish is Jericho getting the Walls of Jericho, Dawn Marie distracts the ref as Lance taps. Out of the crowd comes both Justin Credible and Jason the sexiest man alive. Jericho dropkicks both off the apron, but Justin hits him with a Singapore Cane from the floor. Storm rolled him up for the pin.
Winner: Lance Storm

What a match to start this PPV off Wids. I imagine we’ll see lots of run-ins with the amount of roster they have to put on television.

Pitbull Gary Wolfe cuts a promo. He reflects on the ECW brothers who have passed and throws to a video “ECW remembers”.

Now THIS is a match that I’m foaming a tthe mouth to see. I remember searching the channels on Saturday nights to find if ECW was on PAX that week jsut to see the Tajiri vs. Super Crazy series

Tajiri w/Mikey Whipwreck and Jim Mitchell vs. Little Guido w/Big Guido, Tracy Smothers, JT Smith, Tony Mamaluke vs. Super Crazy
Guido came down with a bunch more FBI guys, I’ll try to name them all. Frantic three way dance to begin. Styles notes three way dances in ECW you need to beat both men. Foley notes that he was ECW tag champs with Mikey and IWGP tag champs with Smothers in Japan.

(here comes my Heenan changing predictions) I think Tajiri and Super Crazy are going to go after each other so hard they’ll forget about Tajiri, my money’s on Little Guido.

Man, Super Crazy’s looking real good, my money’s on him

Crazy and the others start flying to the floor. Crazy runs up the balcony and does a moonsault from the balcony onto the entire FBI in the crowd. Crazy goes into the crowd to celebrate and is greeted by a Tarantula.

Big Guido goes for a powerbomb on Tajiri, who does the mist into Little Guido’s face. In comes A bunch more guys and it ends up with Tajiri pinning Guido to eliminate him. It’s down to Tajiri and Crazy.

I’m curious if this will draw more buys than Wrestlemania. Have I told you yet that I chose Tajiri to win this one yet?

They go back and forth.

Now HERE’S what people came to see, Tajiri vs. Super Crazy

Crazy goes for two moonsaults. On the third, he is pushed off by mikey Whipwreck, but eventually rebounds and hits the third for the pin

Thios match has GOTTA be short, now that Super Crazy’s on television, the INS knows where he is.

Where’s my $20?

Winner: Super Crazy

Video packages show some history of ECW, including Shane Douglas’ landmark promo.

Let’s see if they ignore the contributions of Raven, Jerry Lynn, and Shane Douglas. It’s impossible to ignore the “ECW” speech by Douglas.

Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Psychosis
Psychosis removes his mask. Rey does a bunch of high flying moves, Psychosis slows it down a bit. They chant “put your mask on” at Psychosis. Foley notes he did not bring Socko tonight. Brawling moves to the floor, Rey draped over the railing. Psychosis does a top rope leg drop!

Now Wids, I nearly wet my pants when I read that Psichosis was returning to fight Rey Jr. Was Psichosis unmasked in Mexico previous to this event in Mexico?

I think he was even unmasked in TNA if i remember correctly

TNA? What’s that? You see, this brings back more WCW memories for me than ECW. And while I appreciate Psichosis taking his mask off, I would have appreciated it had he kept it on too. Foley made a reference to how he brought Mr. Socko to the Hardcore Homecoming, which is something that I understand he had issues about for this PPV.

Styles speculates that Psychosis is doing things too high risk to impress on PPV. Psychosis is sent to the floor and into the crowd, landing on the laps of two shocked female fans. Rey then goes up top and

If the quality of matches continue, we won’t be deciding a MotY come December, we’ll be deciding a match of the night at 11 pm. I’ll add that it’s odd to hear Joey Styles call a West Coast Pop and a 619. What a match.
Winner: Rey

The Smackdown crusaders arrive, with tickets. The fans are relentless in bashing them, cursing at them as they arrive. It’s Angle, JBL, Orlando, Bashams, Carlito Matt Morgan.

Remind me why they would censor ANYTHING on a PPV? ESPECIALLY an ECW PPV. I wonder if Kurt paid the same amount that everyone else did

Amish Roadkill and Danny Doring cut a promo backstage, interrupted by the Smackdown guys again.

Long ECW promo.

Joel Gertner is here. He does his Well Well Well to the Smackdown crusaders. Begins his intro:

ECW One Night Stand
Back by Popular Demand

Angle grabs the mic from him and JBL pushes him over. Angle grabs the mic and runs down the fans.

“it’s good to see you still write for us” -Dan Hevia on me doing color tonight, and you know, I didn’t think they needed to give Angle a mic. And on top of that, Kurt Angle just admitted to sucking dick

JBL grabs the mic and the crowd is RUTHLESS chanting towards him. ASSHOLE! SHUT THE FUCK UP! They don’t censor any of the chants thusfar.

It’s funny if you replace “ECW” with “TNA” it almost makes contextual sense. ECW’s on TV more than TNA lately anyway

JBL runs down ECW fans as internet fans. RVD’s music hits and the crowd erupts. RVD comes out with Bill Alfonso.

Hey JBL, I’m on the internet right now and you said that “the only chance this PPV succeeds is that JBL is here”

RVD runs down JBL and the Smackdown crusaders. He says the success of the PPV will be for ECW and ECW fans and not the WWE guys. He said the fans want something other than those same guys. RVD has real passion in his voice tonight!

Wait a second, Rob Van Dam has passion in his voice? Not only that, but he’s speaking my mind here

Damn right. He talks about not having a creative team scripting his promo tonight. Crowd chants ECW and RVD intermittently. RVD is happy not to be limited to saying ‘cool’ and ‘whatever’. He builds to it, and then hands Fonzi the mic to say ‘Whole Fuckin’ Show” but the censors beep Fuck there for some reason.

WHY THE FUCK DID THEY CENSOR RVD?

RVD 4:20 means I JUST SMOKED YOUR ASS. They reminisce about RVD’s TV title reign. He talks about how that’s he should be used. Crowd chants RVD. He understands the respect, and that’s why he went to Vince to create this show. RVD recreates his convo with Vince including a hilarious Vince voice.

RVD’s voice is sore because he hasn’t been able to have any passion on the mic since ECW folded

RVD says Vince liked the idea and the dream became a reality. The date was set. But he had a knee injury and he said it sucked worse than anything. He names the overseas tour, Wrestlemania and Booker T’s wedding. As he continued, Rhyno runs into the ring and hits a GOAR!!! The lights go dark! In the ring is Sabu!!!

I never thought I’d see Sabu wrestle again on PPV, let alone against someone who was recently FIRED by the WWE

A referee runs down and we have an impromptu match!

Rhino vs. Sabu
They go right at it. Sabu FLIES at Rhino on the floor in an incredible spot. Chairs are now into play. The crowd chants “You Got Fired” at Rhino.

Sabu’s putting more effort into this than Kevin Nash’s entire last run in the WWE. You might want to throw in his TNA run too

Rhino goes to work on Sabu in the ring. Goes up to the top, Sabu fights him and hits a JUMPING top rope huricanrana. Then uses a chair tossed to him by Fonzi to do a springboard corner kick. Rhino then reverses Sabu facefirst into the chair and retakes control. The ref helps Sabu up and Rhino gores the ref. Piledriver by Rhino. RVD runs in and THROWS a chair at Rhino’s face. Then grabs the chair and does a sitting dropkick with a chair into Rhino’s face in the corner.

GOAR! GOAR! GOAR! One Night Stand pretty much sums up Rhyno’s night.

Fonzi gets chairs and they set up Rhino on the table. Sabu hits the “Arabian Sjullcrusher” on Rhino through the table as RVD holds the Rhino for the pin.
Winner: Sabu

There’s nothing to say here except that they’ve captured lightning in a bottle so far, because for what it’s worth, THIS IS ECW.

Backstage Al Snow argues with Head. They throw to another ECW video package.

Regal, Conway, Edge, Christian, Tomko, Snitsky, Maven, Coach and Bischoff arrive to huge heat as well.

JOEY STYLES IS MY HERO for saying “I’m glad I didn’t bring my wife tonight, the man is a wifestealer” about Edge. What these guys don’t realize is that the crowd MEANS EVERY SINGLE DAMN THING they’re saying they’re saying to these guys (except Christian, he’s the man even if he is there)

Chris Benoit vs. Eddie Guerrero
The only thing missing is Eddie Guerrero’s mullet, but then again, Mike Awesome is on the card, so at least there’s one mullet on the show

I’ll make note that this might be the first WWE related event that there is no mentionor sight of Triple H. Scratch that, here’s a Hell in the Cell promo with Triple H, I spoke waaaay too soon, so much for avoiding the WWE brand on this one.
Sorry my pizza came. The match was pretty damn good. Benoit hooks in the crossface and Eddie taps.
Winner: Benoit

Gertner approaches Bischoff for an interview, then grovels for a job. Crowd chants YOU SOLD OUT. Bischoff grabs the mic.

That Gertner’s a slow healer, that poor guy’s neck will never heal. Nice snake skin sport coat and furry neck brace though.

Bischoff cuts a promo on the fans and then tosses beer on Gertner.

Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka
Styles goes crazy on Awesome for selling out to Bischoff. Calls him Judas. Foley calls Styles’ rant the second shoot rant of the evening after RVD.

OH MY GOD! THE MULLET IS GONE! If there isn’t a powerbomb over the side of the ring through a table onto the floor I’ll be upset.

Brawling quickly moves to the floor. Foley mocks Awesome’s hair being gone. Tanaka works over Awesome on the floor with a chair and with whips into the railing. Awesome clotheslines Tanaka and toss him back into the ring.

If you n00bs think Joey Styles is being rough on Mike Awesome tonight, perhaps you should think that Mike Awesome leaving ECW directly contributed him being demoted from being an announcer to just another voice on the internet. Foley also pointed out that Awesome lost his “1980’s haircut” and hasn’t been so Awesome lately.

Awesome sets up a table on the floor and does a running Awesomebomb on Tanaka through a table from the apron. HUGE ECW chant. HOLY SHIT chant. Replay shows the powerbomb nearly broke Tanaka’s neck. Awesome looks very good.

THERE IT IS! THE AWESOME BOMB ON TANAKA!!!! Tanaka did this to Awesome as retribution after their first ECW match and tore his shoulder muscle. Mike Awesome did it to Tanaka and he was fine

Dueling chairs in the ring. They both go for each other’s head. Awesome hits Tanaka twice and Tanaka is fired up! Third dents the chair and Tanaka is on fire. Top rope bulldog of sorts on Awesome. Tanaka sets up both chairs in the corner on the mat, and hits a tornado DDT on Awesome. ONLY 2! Puts a chair over Awesome’s face and then hits that chair with his chair. Ouch. Then a top rope chair move. Awesome kicks out!!!! ECW chant.

The amount of punishment that these two guys are taking is unbelievable. Mike Awesome might just be fighting for his reputation as an ECW guy here, SPERE! SPERE! SPERE! on Tanaka.

Awesome up and hits a release German suplex. Tanaka pops right back up and charges Awesome, who spears him down. Foley calls him the former 70s guy.

check these guys into Mt. Sinai hospital once this match is over, Foley and Styles mention that 70’s Guy and the Fat Chick Thrilla! Quotes of the year for me right there!

Both continue with chair punishment. Tornado DDT by Tanaka sends Awesome through a table. Then Awesome up top and hits a top rope Awesomebomb onto the table shards. Holy Shit indeed. Even the Raw and Smackdown guys are shown having fun. ECW champ. THIS MATCH RULES chant. Awesome sets up another table on the floor. Awesome tosses Tanaka over the top rope through the table with another sick Awesomebomb. Awesome then flies over the top rope with a splash and pins Tanaka on the floor.
Winner: Awesome

Foley notes how Awesome was made to look like a fool in WCW.

I suggest you go back and read Gordi’s columns on psychology, because right there, that was it. And so far, this night has been more special to me than the last two Wrestlemanias have been and I’m at home alone, I was there at Wrestlemania XX and 21

Heyman comes out. He is crying. That’s him and Styles! THANK YOU PAUL chant erupts. Heyman starts to cut a promo and claims he’s not crying, his eyes are red for smoking a joint in the back with Van Dam. He first thanks Tod Gordon. Paul E. chant.

Every once in a while we forget that Paul Heyman is one of the best EVER on the microphone

He almost took the high road, but he has something to say to Bischoff. Runs down Bischoff. Then says hide your wives, it’s Edge. “You Screwed Matt” chant erupts. Edge goes to drink a beer, and Paul has 2 words for him — MATT FREAKIN HARDY. Edge does a spit take and mimes that it was three words. Then Paul goes after JBL, saying the only reason he was champ for a year was that HHH didn’t want to work Tuesdays. He closes by saying it’s not WWE it’s EC Fucking W.

HOLY SHIT! THIS PROMO NEEDS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED. This goes right up there with the promo Paul cut on Vince before the Invasion PPV

Movie Trailer?

The Dudleyz vs. Sandman and Tommy Dreamer
Sandman comes out last. Dreamer comes out and has a huge grin as the music Enter Sandman begins. Long entrance from the crowd, including pouring beers into people’s mouths.

Dare I say it, but I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about this match, to see Tommy dreamer back in an ECW ring and Sandman back in an ECW ring is like nothing else. We’ve got an hour for this one folks, I’d expect it to go the full length.

Sandman and Dreamer pour beers on girls chests and drink it off. One girl was Elektra. Also Chris Chetti and CW Anderson in the crowd. Crowd is still singing the Metallica song.

Think tables, think ladders, think kendo sticks, think chairs, think the kitchen sink, stop signs, more chairs, more tables, blood guts and EXTREME. Tommy’s at ringside, Sandman’s bleeding before he gets to ringside, we’ve got ECW alum at ringside, the crowd’s singing along to Enter Sandman and ECW’s One Night Stand is showing signs of coming to a clsoe with a main event. As a wrestling fan, not a mark or a smart or a smark, I do not want ECW to end. EVER

Both teams do fist pounds to start the match. They are all ECW. BWO music starts up and here comes Big Stevie Cool, the Blue Guy and Hollywood Nova. BWO chant. Richards has a mic.

This deserves your attention: the Blue World Order is in the same ring as Eric Bischoff Sadly to say, the Blue Meanie has lost weight.

Stevie talks about not having a real invasion without the BWO. Steviekick to Sandman, Dudleys attack Dreamer and its mayhem. Here comes Kid Kash, he’s punked right away. Styles calls him Mr. TNA — Total Nonstop Attitude. Here comes Balls and Axl. Balls is over huge as he takes out the BWO. Double chairshots on Nova and Styles calls that more painful than being Simon Dean on national TV. Kid Kash uses the ref’s back to jump onto the mass of people on the floor with a somersault.

Just when you thought this PPV couldn’t get any more awesome, there’s Kid Kash, Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten. Not to mentoin Simon Dean as Super Nova as well as Joey Styles admitting he’s going to be fired after one night back no the air. With Kid Kash at ringside, could we see Raven? I mean, it’s not liek TNA is alive, right?

Bell rings and match finally begins. Tommy has a cheese grater. Dudleyz take control. Bubba with a cheese grater on Dreamer. Foley “in a tribute to Vince McMahon” says Dreamer is busted wide open. Double team hangman’s neckbreaker on Dreamer. Sandman in with a ladder.

Unless you are incapable of getting PPV, therre is no reason you shouldn’t be watching this live. This match is going to make the Red Cross jelous oif the floor of the Hammerstein Ballroom

Dreamer uses the ladder around his head and clears the ring spinning around. Uses the grater on Bubba on the floor. Brawling continues all around. Sandman and Dreamer do double figure fours on the Dudleys. Storm and Credible are in to attack Sandman and Dreamer. Justin does That’s Incredible on a Ball of barbed wire. They hold up Dreamer and in runs Francine who hits Dreamer.

FRANCINE! I WANT RAVEN!!! I WANT RAVEN!!!

In runs BEULAH to a huge huge pop. Foley chants ECW. Impact Players go for a double team on Beulah, but she ducks and Storm hits Justin. Dreamer with a crimson mask hugs Beulah. Double DDTs on the Dudleys. SHE’S HARDCORE chant. Sandman holds a chair on Dvon’s crocth and says WAZUP as Dreamer hits that chair with another chair. More brawling and a table is in the ring with the Dudleys. Double team powerbomb on Sandman through the table for 2. Cane shots all around. 3D on Dreamer. Bubba gets another table. Spike comes down dressed as old and the crowd chants LSD. He has gas and they light the table. Styles: They’re gonna throw us in jail. Dvon lights the table and they do a double team powerbomb on Dreamer through the flaming table for the pin. What an incredible brawl.
Winners: Dudleyz

the emotions that watching the match has brought to me is unrivaled by ANYTHING I’ve seen in wrestling before. I’ve been to Wrestlemania X, Wrestlemania XX, 21, the 2000 Rumble, and none of that has compared to watching this PPV in my living room. I’m crying from watching a flaming table spot and god damn it, thank you WWE for putting this on and allowing it to go on.

Dudleyz grab Beulah and bring her into the ring but the Sandman canes everyone. Sandman calls for a beer. And the glass crashes. Out comes Stone Cold Steve Austin to a huge pop. Austin has a mic. You want a beer? He says Sandman needs a case of beer. He brings everyone out from the back for a beer bash. Everyone out of the back comes out. Austin runs down all the WWE guys. Calls them down for a fight. Austin is gonna get a beer and watch from ringside. He calls down Angle and Bradshaw by name. Austin calls Angle a Gold Medal Son of a Bitch. He’s gonna count down 10 and then go up there and slap the piss out of all of them. They come down to the ring as he counts down. They come to the ring and remove their shirts. We Want Tazz chant, and here he comes. Old music. Styles says it’s old school one Z Taz. Bischoff joins commentary. Styles yells at him for being the worst commentator ever. Tazz goes right for Angle and the huge brawl begins. Rhino spears Angle off the arpon and it’s a Tazzmission. ECW clears the ring of WWE guys.

Austin has JBL’s hat on. He calls on Foley to bring Bischoff to the ring. Foley grabs Bischoff and brings him to the ring. They bring Bischoff into the ring. 3D on Bischoff. Flying headbutt by Benoit. Austin directs them all. Asks Rey if he has a 619, crowd boos. Austin checks on Bischoff. He conducts a post-show interview. He asks Bischoff’s thoughts, and he curses which are beeped. They hold up Bischoff and he has a stunner. They toss Bischoff out of the ring as Stone Cold’s music plays. They begin the beer bash!

The Dudleyz bring Bischoff out of the arena. Austin pours beer into Sandman’s mouth. Al Snow pours beer on Head’s mouth. Ha! Let the bodies hit the floor plays as we celebrate ECW with the wrestlers and the fans. Show ends with Sandman and Austin triumphant and Styles saying ECW LIVESSSSSSSSS.

I can’t beleive it’s over, I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did, have a great night everyone. a five star event if I’e ever sen one