BLATT vs. ECW on SciFi LIVE for November 21st, 2006

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BLATT vs. ECW on SciFi for November 21st
Live from Strong Island, New York

Usual recap of last week’s events, highlighting Lashley coming to ECW, and then Let the Bodies Hit the Floor.

Striker starts the show and he’s out to be a sacrificial lamb to Bobby Lashley. He talk about his match and it looks like benevolence will be the word of the week. Striker says he’s gonna annihilate Bobby Lashley.

Bobby Lashley over Matt Striker by Dominator
Striker starts the match by running away and Lashley starts the match by throwing Striker’s desk out of the ring over his head. Pretty impressive actually. Hanging suplex, spear, dominator, three count. Thanks for playing Striker.

The Hardy Boyz over FBI (Tony Marmaluke and Little Guido with Trinity) by Twist of Fate and Swanton Bomb
The Hardy Boyz are announced as Team Extreme. I’m pretty sure that Lita was a part of Team Extreme. Oh well, I guess if you own the history you can re-write it. How nice of ECW to feed the FBI to the Hardyz. I refuse to cal them Team Extreme. the crowd is fully behind the Hardyz this evening, as most of them probably are questioning who the hell the FBI is anyway.

Nice double teaming by FBI on Jeff Hardy, who is still nursing his back injury sustained at his ladder match on RAW last night. Trinity attempts an FBI chant, but Long Island doesn’t know who the hell she is. Did you know that Trinity has a documentary about her? It’s called Trinity and I’ll let you know how it is in a few weeks. MAtt Hardy gets most of the offense here to help the story lines along. The Hardyz pull out an AMAZING neckbraker power bomb off the top rope and the Twist of Fate/Swanton combo takes out the FBI. I kinda wish they could have re-established the Hardyz without being at the expense of an ECW team.

Heyman is in Rob Van dam’s locker room and Heyman spits out his usual weekly blather about how he’s the boss and Rob Van Dam is his employee and it’s 1997 all over again. Actually, he says that if RVD loses his match tonight, Holly gets his spot in the EECM.

CM Punk over Kevin Thorn by Anaconda Vice
Nice to see Thorn is back. This match should be competitive and I think Punk will steal the show once again. Thorn takes control early but his hesitations between moves costs his that momentum. This is Thorn’s power vs. Punks speed. They’re about the same size with Punk giving up some size, but different styles. Just when you’d think this match is heading in the right direction, Kelly Kelly comes out to the ring and Punk slaps on the Vice and Thorn taps out. Oh well, I would have liked to see that get ten more minutes.

Ariel attacks Kelly Kelly post match, Thorn throws Punk out, we’ve got a catfight which gets broken up quick and Punk throws Thorn out like yesterday’s trash. Punk gets a hug from Kelly Kelly as they both celebrate in the ring and Mike Knox looks on and looks sad.

Big Show is in the ring and doesn’t look like he’s in a good mood. He puts over the EECM as this and that. The New York crowd goes weary of the Big Show and starts up the “WHAT” chant. Big Show responds with “What? Leave it to Nassau to be five years behind.” Brilliant! After Show says that no one can beat him, cue the Bobby Lashley music. Lashley hits the ring and we’re spared more talk by the Big Show in favor of a toe-to-toe encounter with Lashley and Show.

Show gets a nice looking punch in on Lashley but that’s all he gets as Lashley knocks Show out of the ring with a title shot to the head. Show goes berzerk on his way out and we go to commercial. Nice little encounter.

We’re fed an Elimination Chamber video package to kill some time before the main event. Eventually Rob Van Dam makes his way to the ring.

Rob Van Dam vs. Hardcore Holly
Looks like we’re gonna actually get some time for this match. Holly is backstage and Test is giving him a pep talk. Test says that he wants Holly there in the EECM with him. You know, didnt Test attack Holly’s bad back with a chair a few weeks ago? How dumb do the “producers” of the show believe we are? The match is announced as under Extreme Rulz. It’s been a while since the last one.

Looks like we’re getting the usual round of Rob Van Dam spots. We go to commercial right after a leg drop on the ring barriers.

It’s always annoyed me when promotions run commercials in the middle of matches. This time it’s a Survivor Series commercial and were back to the action and a chair is wedged in the corner. Rob Van Dam still has control. Remember that chair from two sentences ago, Holly put RVD’s head through it.

NASTY stomp by Holly on RVD’s head under a chair. Holly figures some different ways to use a chair including the chair to RVD’s throat. Want proof that Hardcore Holly STILL doesn’t belong in ECW? Listen to the Long Island crowd chant BORING during the match. Since RVD went head first, Holly has zapped the energy from this match. The crowd chants for tables, which might as well be a “BORING” chant. Speaking of, I miss Lance Storm.

It took ten minutes for Styles to recap the last time they fought and the stitches Holly received. Remember that stomp to the head from before? Holly hit an even more nasty version from the top rope. What was that? A super chair head stomp? Anyway, this match is still slow and trying my attention span. I understand that Holly’s style is slower, but the crowd is DEAD for this match. RVD comes back and the crowd is still dead for some kicks and a rolling thunder on a steel chair. This doesn’t bode well for the Extreme Rulz matches in the future. Superplex in a chair and a Five Star Frog Splash on Holly and the match is over.

I could have sworn that I heard a TNA chant somewhere in there. I could have heard it wrong but I went back to check and it was a TNA chant. Weird.

The Inside Pulse
What a weird show. It pushed very little forward and didn’t even serve the purpose of promoting the Survivor Series show on top of that. And what the hell is the card for D2D look like anyway? I know that the SurSer is more important, but besides the title match, there’s nothing for this PPV and I doubt that they have a plan. CM Punk can only save one segment a show and from the looks of it, the spotlight is changing to Bobby Lashley from RVD. I know I run this down every week, but where is Balls Mahoney, Rene Dupree, Sabu, the Sandman and Tommy Dreamer?