In Sci-Fi pre-show commercial the term "Extremists" is used! GASP!
LAST WEEK
RVD vs EVERYBODY did not go well for RVD, who was betrayed by Bob and HANDED AN UNTIMELY DEMISE! Will he continue working after death like Tupac?
TONIGHT!
Let the bodies hit the floor!
DJ Elijah is with Joey... no Tazz today it seems. aw. You listen intently as Joey tells you that Tazz is out for knee surgery.
THE BIG SHOW COMES OUT! With the realla gorilla; Paul Heyman!
Heyman says he has BAD and GOOD news!
BAD NEWS: No RVD tonight. aw. GOOD NEWS: (I hope it has to do with car insurance) Oh... the Good news is that Big Show is here. hrm.
PPV December to Dismember will feature the Xtreme Xlimination Xhamber! WHO WILL BE THE 6th MAN?!
NUTSICLES! Bob Holly is walking backstage! Is he.. THE SIXTH CHILD?!
CLOSE ONE! Bobby Lashley literally kills Bob backstage, then comes out and signs the contract; Singlehandedly taking down the Big Show and making the Xtreme Chamber watchable. (lol@bias)
COMMERCIAL BRAKE!
WE'RE BACK! Today's show is in Gay Olde England
Paul Heyman talking backstage to Bob, Test and Show who are all crying like little girlies cause Bobby took the 6th spot in the XChamber. PAUL punishes Lashley by putting him in the Main Event. That'll teach him.
--- PUNK VS KNOX
C.M. PUNK comes out! Today marks the 5th anniversary of the day when he agreed to only wrestle Mike Knox for the rest of his career.
Those silly Brits! The whole time Knox was on the offensive they were pretending to be asleep! lol! They only pretended to care when Punk was winning, especially when he made Knox "tap out." Watevar. ---
COMMERCIAL BRAKE
Survivor Series is coming! Every single superstar will be co-captain of a team that is rly eliminating itself!
WE'RE BACK
Matt Teacher teaches us about the brutality of the Elimination Chamber which he isnt a part of. WWE is using the crap out of this guy.
fade to
C.M.PUNK giving A GOOD PROMO! He's being interviewed by Rebecca's hand with a mic on it. (no, they rly kind of avoided showing her face at the beginning of the promo ... hrm. ok.) He basically says he is going to literally kill everyone in the XChamber.
COMMERCIAL BRAKE
I went to the bathroom but there was probably a Mania promo here.
WE'RE BACK!
--- DAIVARI VS DREAMER
Little Daivari comes out with Kali. Pretty useless match made even further so as Kali interferes; causing a DQ. Kali then literally kills Tommy Dreamer and feasts on his immortal soul.
COMMERCIAL BRAKE
Ad for Roddy DVD. It shows Hogan in one of the clips which suggests to me that he'll be at Survivor Series.
WE'RE BACK
Turkay is eyeing Joey who shows a replay of Bobby spearing Show earlier tonight.
MAIN EVENT
BOBBY vs. BOB
Bobby Makes his entrance, then as soon as Holly takes one step past the curtains...
COMMERCIAL BRAKE!
Another Survivor Series Ad.
WE'RE BACK
Bobby is really over it seems. Bobby tries to retaliate- but nobody cares. Bobby with some nice shows of strength. Joey suggests that Bobby has incapacitated Bob for life via scoop and slam.
Superplex to Bobby. Near pin.
Bobby fights back, devastating Bob with a Northern Lights Suplex and a Shoulder Body Slam. (I learned such terms from my Playstation)
BUT INTERFERENCE BY HEYMAN'S GIRL SQUAD!
They face off against the rest of the participants of the Chamber who have run to the ring! RVD is rly here and even POINTS AT HIMSELF! That made the show for me.
End of show sees Rob and Bobby standing in the ring with the others on the outside. BOBBY GESTURES THAT HE WILL WIN THE XCHAMBAR!
GOOD NIGHT YOU!
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Rob, Test, Sabu, Show, Punk, Lashley are going to the Chambar!
SIDE NOTES: 1. Elijah sounds like John Cena +35 years. 2. Bobby > Bob
So from the sound of Joey, Lashley just isn't in the Extreme Elimination Chamber match, he's a part of ECW. So why are they shipping so many Smackdown guys over to ECW?? He makes #5 after Burke, Terkay, Daivari, and Khali. Strange.
I wonder how ECW is gonna be able to put on a 3 hour PPV, and if not, are they going to charge less for it?
Not having seen a whole SmackDown in years, I was shocked at the size of Lashley and just as shocked at the push they gave him last night. They seem to have made him the No. 2 title challenger, if not outright tied for first with RVD. Maybe they don't need The Alpha Male in the WWE; Bobby's already doing that gimmick pretty well.
Again, Knox doesn't show anything to establish a significant feud with Punk, and this seems more to be the languorous courtship of Punk and Kelly Kelly. Which of course means she's gonna turn on him. Knox isn't horrible in the ring. He's just bland. He isn't using his deep Downward Spiral anymore, and that eliminates any suspense that Punk could be laid out for a pinfall.
I've been bitching about the lack of eye rakes for the vice since Punk appeared on ECW. A cruiserweight could head scissor him too. And if we're talking about busting kayfabe, I don't quite buy Punk slapping an uranage on a guy the size of Knox. It sounds like I don't like Punk. There's a lot to like. But he's establishing in a moveset rut (springboard clothesline, running elbows, Tajiri flurry, knee attack, bulldog, uranage, vice) and working against a lump.
Tommy Dreamer vs. Daivari and not one DDT? Guh.
Burke wasn't bad on the mic.
"To be the man, you gotta beat demands." -- The Lovely Mrs. Tracker
I think Elijah Burke is star waiting to happen ...
I echo the sentiments of Packman regarding all of the Smackdown stars that are now joining the ECW roster. I know the whole purpose is to create & establish stars, but if they were going to move any one Smackdown star, why not Benoit?
Hey, we're in England for the first time and this is ECW! Sorry, RVD and Sabu won't wrestle and we didn't bring Sandman, the FBI, or Extreme Rules. But look at the size of The Great Khali, everyone! He's so huge, I can barely keep my eyes in my sockets!
I can't complain about Punk when he's the least offensive thing on the show. I certainly won't hold him responsible for his smarky annoying fans.
I shut the damn show off as soon as Lashley hit the ring for the main. I can't watch Lashley vs. Holly as the main event of ECW. That just sickens me.
There was one thing I liked, when Show, Test and Holly were yelling at Heyman about why he even made the pretense of inviting a sixth mystery man when he wanted Holly in the Chamber all along. It was a rare on-camera questioning of the brutally flawed internal logic of the writing. Also, look at that picture: Big Show, Test, and Bob Holly. This is ECW?
As for Elijah Burke doing color, every time he called Turkay "Man Bear" I heard "Manbearpig" in my head. It's a better gimmick for him. I'm super serial. But God forbid someone like Stevie Richards sit in for Tazz; someone who actually is ECW, can talk, and could also get himself over. ECW Originals are second class citizens in ECW. Back of the line, behind Test and Great Khali.
Oh, Chaplow, please learn how to spell "commercial break." A 'brake' is what stops your car from running. A 'commercial brake' indicates something that stops commercials, which isn't the case.
I don't know, maybe RVD and Sabu's passports got revoked after their little run-in with the law. Also, I bet they wouldn't let Sandman thru the terminal with all that beer cuz he wouldn't ddrink that crappy warm British stuff. ;-)
They REALLY need to announce some new matches for December To Dismember. Who've they got available? I guess Sandman Vs. Strike could be blown off there, despite being a dead issue for the last month. What else? Holly Vs. Dreamer, present Heyman flunky Vs. past Heyman flunkie? Terkay and Burke debuting? If so, against who?
To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires, and lights, in a box.-Edward R. Murrow
Originally posted by Mayhem I think Elijah Burke is star waiting to happen ...
I echo the sentiments of Packman regarding all of the Smackdown stars that are now joining the ECW roster. I know the whole purpose is to create & establish stars, but if they were going to move any one Smackdown star, why not Benoit?
Lashley ASKED to be moved there allegedly because he wasn't getting a good enough push on Smackdown and he liked Heyman from his OVW days. The other guys are merely just guys who had nothing going on in Smackdown. Instead of wasting away and not on TV, they shipped them to Smackdown.
I don't have a huge problem with these guys on ECW (except maybe Khali) but its gonna be hard to use all these guys each week in a 1 hour show. If ECW was 2 hours, it wouldn't be an issue, but now you got a lot of guys who only have 1 hour and a couple of PPV's a year to show themselves. And with ECW being used on Smackdown house shows, some of these guys will barely even wrestle.
Basically the way I look at it now is that you have three WWE shows and each one is a different type. Raw is your entertainment show, it's where you get the storylines and promos and such. You've got your entertainers and characters like DX, Edge, Cena, johny Nitro, Carlito, Spirit Squad and Eugene. ECW is kind of a fighting or brawling show not to say they're all garbage hardcore wreslters but with guys like the Big Show, Test, Holly and to some extreme (no pun intended) RVD and Sabu it's more of a brawling style than a technical wrestling style. Smackdown is your wrestling show with guys like Booker, Benoit, Finlay, Regal, Rey, Hardy, Helms, London, Kendrick and Chavo. Sure there will be some wrestling on Raw and ECW and there will be some entertainment segments on ECW and Smackdown, but for the most part I think each show has it's own style. So I can understand the Lashley move even if he hadn't asked for it. Lashley probably best fits a brawling style. Benoit could fit in on either show because he can wrestle and brawl but I'd rather see him wrestle.
Originally posted by WhattaburgerThat Anaconda Vice thing is the stupidest, suckiest, most smarky move ever.
Ever.
Is there a reason no one is raking his face...or better yet, punching him in the eye with the clearly free hand?
(edited by Whattaburger on 14.11.06 2103)
You could make similar arguments for a lot of moves, like the Van Daminator. He throws you a chair and kicks the chair into your face. Why not just HIT HIM WITH THE CHAIR?
I'm really glad to see Lashley on the ECW roster. He was getting lost in the shuffle over on SmackDown and his character (not to mention size) was too similar to Batista. Not to mention that he can more than hold his own in a garbage match, if need be. And shooting him to the Elimination Chamber is a good way to keep his push going.
(edited by It's False on 15.11.06 1215) "That's the thing: Maybe he'll be up and down this season, but when he's up, is there another center in the league quite like him? He protects the rim, passes out of double teams, has great hands around the basket, up-fakes on his jump-hooks, rebounds in traffic, even has a motor that keeps going and going (unlike a stiff like Eddy Curry). I'm not sure what's missing here. This is stunning. This is startling. There's almost no precedent for it. Just what the Lakers needed: More obscenely good luck. Meanwhile, I have to watch Al Jefferson whip jump-hooks off the front of the rim for the third straight season. I will now pour scalding hot water down my pants." -Bill Simmons on Andrew Bynum (11/08/06)
Originally posted by John OrquiolaOh, Chaplow, please learn how to spell "commercial break." A 'brake' is what stops your car from running. A 'commercial brake' indicates something that stops commercials, which isn't the case.
(edited by John Orquiola on 15.11.06 0719)
GASP! That literally brakes my heart that you think I have bad spaeling or something!
Originally posted by John OrquiolaOh, Chaplow, please learn how to spell "commercial break." A 'brake' is what stops your car from running. A 'commercial brake' indicates something that stops commercials, which isn't the case.
(edited by John Orquiola on 15.11.06 0719)
GASP! That literally brakes my heart that you think I have bad spaeling or something!
Maybe you could just stop posting recaps and wear a sign that says "I AM A MORON" instead.
Originally posted by John OrquiolaAs for Elijah Burke doing color, every time he called Turkay "Man Bear" I heard "Manbearpig" in my head. It's a better gimmick for him. I'm super serial.
Thank God, I thought I was the only one thinking that.
Originally posted by QuezzyBasically the way I look at it now is that you have three WWE shows and each one is a different type. Raw is your entertainment show, it's where you get the storylines and promos and such. You've got your entertainers and characters like DX, Edge, Cena, johny Nitro, Carlito, Spirit Squad and Eugene. ECW is kind of a fighting or brawling show not to say they're all garbage hardcore wreslters but with guys like the Big Show, Test, Holly and to some extreme (no pun intended) RVD and Sabu it's more of a brawling style than a technical wrestling style. Smackdown is your wrestling show with guys like Booker, Benoit, Finlay, Regal, Rey, Hardy, Helms, London, Kendrick and Chavo. Sure there will be some wrestling on Raw and ECW and there will be some entertainment segments on ECW and Smackdown, but for the most part I think each show has it's own style. So I can understand the Lashley move even if he hadn't asked for it. Lashley probably best fits a brawling style. Benoit could fit in on either show because he can wrestle and brawl but I'd rather see him wrestle.
I just came to this realization just last week. I was only watching Raw and ECW and I was really hating it and then I caught Smackdown by chance on a Saturday and realized I just missed actual *wrestling*.
I also don't mind these recaps so much. No one else is doing one here and I get a pretty good idea about what I did or didn't miss.
And for those of us who are Canadian and prefer old-fashioned store shoppin', the Benoit DVD is coming to Canada on August 10, according to http://slam.canoe.ca/ Slam/Wrestling/2004/06/ 07/489656.html