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CM Punk vs Tommy Dreamer vs John Morrison vs Chavo Guerrero
With the Big Show injured, management had to come up with a last minute plan for ECW on Sci Fi to stall. Not too bad of an idea to pit the four guys that weren't able to win the Singapore Cane match together. At least, it provides some continuity.
Good match with some entertaining spots.
Winner: CM Punk |
7/10 |
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Shelton Benjamin vs Matt Sydal
Nice job giving Matt Sydal some exposure. He's one of the better wrestlers WWE has in developmental.
The match was basically a setup for a conflict between Kofi Kingston, who was doing commentary for the match, and Shelton Benjamin. It's nice that management actually gives time to this feud, but people are going to lose interest soon if they don't build up a big match soon.
Winner: Shelton Benjamin |
7/10 |
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Armando Estrada vs Matt Hardy
The match itself was a bit short. Nothing out of the ordinary as Matt Hardy dominated Armando Estrada as expected. However, the setup for things was very entertaining and clever. After weeks of seeing Armando Estrada taking advantage of Colin Delaney, it's nice to see someone coming in for payback.
Winner: Matt Hardy |
8/10 |
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Colin Delaney vs Armando Estrada
New ECW general manager Theodore Long announced a second match for Armando Estrada. He had to face Colin Delaney, who promptly defeated him in approximately 30 seconds.
Once again, this was an entertaining and clever segment. The wrestling itself wasn't anything special. It was just good writing.
Winner: Colin Delaney |
8/10 |
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Kane vs CM Punk
As a reward for beating Chavo Guerrero, Tommy Dreamer, and John Morrison earlier in the night, CM Punk gets rewarded with a non title match against Kane.
The match itself was quite good. They were given the proper time to work an entertaining match. Kane gets the clean win after a chokeslam.
However, the only thing I would have done differently was to not bury CM Punk with a clean loss. Since Miz and John Morrison were going to attack Kane anyways, they should have had them interfering in the match before it ended.
Winner: Kane |
8/10 |
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Very good episode of ECW this week. You couldn't even tell that things had to be changed up at the last minute because of Big Show's injury. |
8/10 |