Pro Wrestling Ponderings

We kick off the last ECW before Night of Champions with a real trial by fire contest as Yoshi Tatsu in his fourth match on ECW is up against the snug and tough Lord William Regal.  Regal always known for working a tad stiff does not disappoint in this match.  Though I will say that with each passing Yoshi Tatsu match we see development in his ring ability, this match really had some great fluidity.  Yoshi Tatsu has been groomed very well as the chants  against Regal and for Yoshi were very audible as they have been since his debut.   A great job also by Regal who really shows that he is a true test for the younger talent as this showcased, albeit  slow, how tough Yoshi could be against other opponents who will try to slow down his style.  One not-so-surprising-again kick to the head and we have an upset for our youg newcomer Yoshi Tatsu.  Good way to start off the show in my opinion.

The returning Mike Williams gets another sound beating by the gigantic Ezekiel Jackson.  Jackson really didn’t even break a sweat as two moves in he soundly defeats Williams who then suffers the wrath of Kozlov who comes down and massacres him with the Iron Curtain finnisher as if to say to Jackson, ” You took way too long..”  A budding feud and god bless the agent in charge of this.

We have the gold standard Shelton Benjamin against the gold enigma Goldust.  During the match I found myself asking once again what did Shelton do to get pushed so far down the ladder and then the botch spot during the match occured and I found myself wondering if Goldust could actually win.  Goldust and Benjamin are sound workers and so the finish was a tad out of nowhere but did show the elite precision that the PayDirt can be hit at.   Short and decent match that for some reason I was hoping would go somewhere.

Sheamus gets in a short backstage skit where he basically is declaring that WWE has decided that his last name is too complicated and thus Sheamus is all we’re going to get.  Big fan of the guys work in FCW and so I was really hoping for a match of his to be on next but hopefully he’ll be on next week.

Burchill backstage with Helms and Katie Lea mentions how he’s going to decimate Reks when Goldust starts to distract Burchil.  Can we let the Bale thing go already.. damn!  Looks like Goldust will be on next weeks ECW.

So we have the debuting, on ECW anyway, Tyler Reks and honestly a comparison can be made to Mark Henry.  Reks starts off with the whole chant for me signal of reaching into the air, I don’t know how successful that has been on Superstars but the crowd is so dead silent here that it just popped into my head that he’s trying to get a Mark Henry reaction and yet is getting the Henry reaction of last month.  Seriously, no one in this arena gave a crap who this Tyler Reks guy was and I think it was obvious even to him that he had better be impressive in this match.  Burchill came out to a chorus of boos while a few cat calls were given to his “sister”.

The match honestly wasn’t bad and to me was everything the fed would want their future to look like.  Two larger than average athletes going at a pace that is beyond what we would normally expect.  Reks definitely hit some decent high flying spots drawing the crowd over to his side while Burchill proved further that he is an asset to the company in that he can have a decent match and still put over the other talent and somehow still come off as if it was sort of an upset.  How long as it been since we’ve seen Burchill win and yet it seemed as if he should have dealt with this newcomer a lot easier.  Upon the finish of this match with a simple roll up, Reks got a few spatterings of cheers and we of course had the attack from behind from Burchill which will obviously lead into anther 3 match fed for him and then off to another new comer.

Overall an action filled episode as we lead into our final segment that would have minimal action but get across the ECW championship match at NOC.  The new and brash mouth of ECW Abraham Washington came out once again to tell everyone how great his show is and asked that we all cheer to bring out the nmber 1 contender and campion of the ECW championship.

Dreamer and Christian both had their chops biten as Washington took cheap pot shots at them verbally but in the end it was all about the two friends getting it on and proving to eachother and the world at NOC who the better man was.  Abraham continues to sound off his scripted promos very well and damn I wish the fed would let him give the promos he gave down in FCW.  Anyway a stare off between the two friends-turned-opponents to fade the show off and god damn it why can’t someone from TNA watch this show and learn how to run a wrestling tv show.

Anyway, that’s it for tonight folks. Thanks for reading.

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