1) The Tommy/Colin feud is kind of pointless. I mean, I don’t think they have any intention of pushing Tommy so having him beat Delaney is worthless. Can we assume that Vince just kind of thinks Delaney is a joke because he’s so small? Is this just to get Tommy some pointless wins to pay some sort of tribute to ECW?
2) I’m still not in to this Striker/Grisham combo but I always say that you have to give a new team four or five weeks to find a groove. If I haven’t said that before, then I’m saying it now. Striker still seems a bit too much “fan” and not enough “heel” but I think he’ll get over that.
3) Evan Bourne seems to not be missing his partner at all. Apparently Chris Harris’s decision to take some time off and get fat and forget how to wrestle was not time well spent. Bold move… didn’t work out.
4) I’m amazed how WWE just uses LAX’s gang signs and just doesn’t care. First of all, why? Second of all, WTF does it have to do with “Ricky Ortiz”?
5) Matt Hardy/Mark Henry vs. Miz/Morrison as a main event. Will the be able to co-exist? No, of course they won’t. Kind of a worthless main event. The best part of this match was looking at this paragraph and determining that if Hardy and Henry ever wanted to be a tag team, they could be the M4-H5s. Why not just have another guest spot by Jeff and have Matt/Jeff vs. Mark/Atlas vs. Mis/Morrison and it would have made far more sense and could have ended exactly the same way.
6) Why Striker is striking out: “Miz refers to himself as the chick magnet. I didn’t know women were made of metal.” Come on now, Striker.
7) They offer full versions of the ECW show on WWE.com? Do they do this for all shows or just ECW? If they start offering streaming versions of all three shows then it’s another step toward me canceling cable and going Internet only.
8) Odd finish of the main event. Hardy gave Morrison a Side Effect off second turnbuckle. Hardy went for a pin and Morrison kicked out as the referee counted 3. Weird finish where everyone looked confused at the end. Someone effed up.
9) And Grisham is apparently still new to wrestling as he presumed Mark Henry was helping Matt Hardy up in a “show of sportsmanship.” I don’t even know if JR would have fallen for that one.
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Really bleh ECW show. This is kind of the lost show in the PPV build as it spends more time pushing the stuff from Raw and Smackdown as it does for its own single Summerslam match. I understand the point to this but it makes the show look even more 2nd class than it already obviously is.
