ECW Results, Upcoming ROH PPV and Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight

3/5 ECW Results

(Pics from WWE.com)


~The show starts with The Miz & John Morrison defending the WWE Tag Team Titles against Tommy Dreamer & Colin Delaney. Dreamer and Delaney were doing alright, until Delaney gets a chair and hits Miz and Morrison with it. This causes Dreamer and Delaney to get disqualified and allow the tag champs to retain their titles.


-Shelton Benjamin ends Stevie Richards’ three-match winning streak.


-Kane beats James Curtis in 2 seconds. For some reason, Chuck Palumbo decides to stalk Kane on from his motorcycle throughout the match.



-It is announced that Tommy Dreamer & Colin Delaney will receive a rematch for the WWE Tag Team Titles next week in a no-DQ match.

-Then, it was time for the main event of CM Punk vs. Chavo Guerrero for the ECW Championship.





-Chavo Guerrero pulls out the win and remains ECW Champion.

This episode of ECW was definitely built around the ECW title match. Thankfully, Punk and Chavo delivered and saved the show because other then that, the show was VERY uneventful. The match starts off a little slow but the pace picks up near the end.



Chavo Guerrero vs. CM Punk (Part I)




Chavo Guerrero vs. CM Punk (Part II)

Why the plug was pulled so quickly on Stevie Richards’ winning streak is a mystery to me but it was kind of hard to imagine just what Richards would be doing once he stopped beating no-names.

It seems Kofi Kingston took the night off to try and pick up Kelly Kelly. I bet this line works all the time on the “island”.



ROH Pay-Per-View Airing This Friday

(Pic from rohwrestling.com)

~Ring of Honor's latest Pay Per View event, Rising Above, is set to premiere this Friday. This show will be the sixth PPV event in the company's history since all ROH shows made are distributed via DVDs.

The show was pre-taped and originally occured on 12/29/07 in NYC. Here's the card for the show:

ROH World Title Match
Nigel McGuinness (Champion) vs. Austin Aries

ROH World Tag Team Title 2/3 Falls Match
Jay & Mark Briscoe (Champions) vs. Rocky Romero & Roderick Strong

Grudge Match #1
Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima

Grudge Match #2
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney

Grudge Match #3
Erick Stevens vs. Davey Richards

Three-Way Women's Match
Sara Del Rey vs. Lacey vs. Daizee Haze

Tag Team Scramble
Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black vs. Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. Jack Evans & Ruckus vs. Adam Pearce & BJ Whitmer

Grudge Match #4
Delirious vs. Brent Albright

In terms of in-ring action, the ROH PPVs have been extremely good and have been right up there with WWE and TNA. However, their shows are very poorly advertised and unless you already are a ROH fan, you probably won't know when their shows are released. This, of course, is the opposite of what you are supposed to do when you expand, try to reach out to the casual, non-fan to add to your fanbase instead of just catering to your loyal following.

Here's a 10 minute preview of the show released by ROH:



Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight

~The wrestler in the spotlight this week goes by a couple of names. "The Washington Warrior", "The Prince of Parkland (Washington)", and "The Aerial Emperor" are just a few. Personally, I perfer...

Jack Evans, from the Heavens.

Jack Evans is a regular in ROH and has been since 2004, but he's also made appearences in Japan and in other promotions across America, including TNA.

Evans is notable for mostly his breakdancing and his fast-paced wrestling style, which consists of a bunch of flips, twists and other high flying manuevers. Like the Springboard Skytwister Press Suicida



And the Space Flying Tiger Drop



And the 630 Senton



And even more breakdancing



Although all the high flying stuff is pretty entertaining, many people don't like Evans' style because he doesn't set anything up and just performs a bunch of moves like a choreographed movie fight scene.

I think Jack Evans is great and he's one of the few wrestlers that makes my jaw drop almost everytime I see him in the ring.



In ROH, Evans is the leader of his own group called "The Vulture Squad", which also features Julius Smokes, Jigsaw and Ruckus.

Evans is currently out of action after suffering a facial injury while taking part in a match in Japan. He's been out since January and I don't know when he's scheduled to make his in-ring return, but from the pics I saw, the injury was pretty brutal.



(clip of how Jack Evans got his injury)

Weekend Update (Part 2)

~The 450 Splash Weekend update continues,

2/29 WWE Smackdown Results

(Pics from WWE.com)


-Smackdown starts with The Big Show beating up on Joey Ryan & Jay Garland in a two-on-one handicap match. Show then gets on the microphone and says that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has no chance against him at Wrestlemania.


-Jimmy Wang Yang & Shannon Moore beat Deuce & Domino.


-Chuck Palumbo defeats Jamie Noble.

-Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero announces Batista as Smackdown's representative in the Raw vs. Smackdown challenge at Wrestlemania 24 vs Umaga.


-Batista & Kane beat The Great Khali & MVP.


-Jesse & Festus defeat WWE Tag Team Champions The Miz & John Morrison in a non title match.


-A match between Big Daddy V and Balls Mahoney never finished because The Undertaker runs in and lays them both out. Taker then calls Edge out but Edge sends Zach Ryder, one of his associates, to "greet" the Undertaker instead.


-Undertaker wipes the floor with Zack Ryder to close out the show.

I thought Big Show was very good on the mic. He even mentioned Oscar De la Hoya and Mayweather's $20 million Wrestlemania paycheck.


Is MVP ever going to win a match again?

I thought the Palumbo/Noble match was really solid. Definately better then I thought it would be.


I thought it made no sense to have the WWE Tag Champs, The Miz and John Morrison lose to nobodies when they have a title defense this Tuesday on ECW against Tommy Dreamer and Colin Delaney. A win for Miz and Morrison would have gave them more momentum going into that match and if Dreamer and Delaney were to beat them, the win would mean a whole lot more. If everyone can beat your tag team champions, why are they the tag team champions?

WWE.com Provides News on Other Organziations

~WWE.com has recently started reporting news regarding other wrestling promotions such as TNA and ROH.

This is a big shock since WWE generally acts as if they are the only wrestling organization that exists and rarely ever make any mention of other brands.

It sounds like a good idea, but I'm sure a large portion of WWE fans don't follow wrestling outside of the WWE, so news on other promotions may not be that well received.

TNA Impact Goes Live

~According to a gerweck.net article, TNA is planning on airing a live episode of their weekly TV show, TNA Impact, on Thursday, March 27th. Impact is usually taped on Mondays and footage from that night's taping airs Thursday.

I think live shows definately have a better feel to them then pre-taped ones. Nothing is cut out or edited and you get to see and hear the crowd's real reaction to what's going on. Hopefully, this won't be a one time thing for TNA.

TNA Tag Team To Be Featured on MTV

~TNA wrestlers, Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin, will be featured on an upcoming episode of MTV's Made, reports tnawrestling.com. The tag team, also known as the Motor City Machine Guns, will help coach a high school student into becoming a pro wrestler.

Here's a description of the episode from an MTV press release:

"Chris Hendricks is a self-described "choir queer" who's sick of being stereotyped as weak just because he's gay. He wants to be made into a larger-than-life pro wrestler so he can prove to everyone that he's tough enough to take a punch.

With help from his coaches, Motor City Machine Guns Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin from TNA Wrestling, Chris will bulk up and learn how to throw a punch and take a fall. But with only six weeks of training before his first professional match, it's anyone's guess whether or not he'll be ready to rumble."

The show is scheduled for Saturday March 8 at 12 pm ET.