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WWE - December to Dismember

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ECW December To Dismember
December 3, 2006
James Brown Arena
Augusta, Georgia

Hardy Boyz V. MNM
Everyone is saying that this match stole to show. Umm...no. This match was a little above average in my book. Both teams were botching spots and the match was why too long for me. Even though it had to be long. This match is NOT as good as everyone says it is. The Hardyz win. ***

Balls Mahoney V. Matt Striker
horrible match. Striker gets in all the offense and Balls gets two moves in and wins. 1/4* only because Striker worked on Ball's arm for most of the match so there was some psychology to it.

Elijah Burke & Sylverster Terkay V. The FBI
another horrible match. nothing really noteworthly here. Burke & Terkay win. 1/2*

Tommy Dreamer V. Daivari
just horrible. Are you seeing the theme here? Better than the last two matches but again, nothing worth talking about. Daivari wins. 3/4* Notice all the ECW originals are losing every match except Balls who got no offense in.

Mike Knox & Kelly Kelly V. kevin Thorn & Ariel
again, I got nothing to say about this match except Ariel is hot. What, I like a little meat on my women. Key words a little. Anyways, Thorn & Ariel win because Knox turns on Kelly. *

Extreme Elimination Chamber for the ECW CHampionship:
Big Show (Champion) V. RVD V. CM Punk V. Test V. Bobby Lashley V. Hardcore Holly
Not as bad as everyone thinks it is but it's one of the worst elimination chamber matches. Solid action from RVD & CM Punk and the rest is just decent. Lashley wins the title. ***1/2

Overall, the worst WWE Produced show every. No really it is. The buyrates were around the 90,000 mark, making it the lowest in the histroy of the WWE. However, everyone is calling this "December To Disappoint" I am going to be very harsh here but...WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING??????? it's not like this was a very loaded card. There were only two macthes named to the card with six days left on the PPV. So you know that they weren't going to go 3 hours. This was a one match show and very one match show I have every seen sucked. I agree that this PPV was the worst ever, however, you don't have to be pissed off that you ordered it expecting WrestleMania and got WCW Uncensored. That's your fault for not knowing that this card sucked. I didn't order it because I know it would be horrible. So if you want to piss and moan, go ahead. Hell, I was surprised that it got 90,000 buys. The WWE should be happy that people were that stupid.

I watched this ppv live in the UK & i was so dissapointed. ECW is dead. If Paul Heyman got the chance, he would of got this ppv as he wanted too but VKM had other plans. Only got too words for this. THIS SUCK'S
If you want to watch some proper ECW, Go n get the original. That Rules !!

I ordered this PPV and this maybe the last WWE PPV I ever order. This has to be one of the worst PPV's I ever seen in my life. No matches had any real build up. The EMC was a joke how do you let CM Punk and RVD get eliminated and let Lashley of all people win the title??? FBI jobs out to a team noone even heard of. The only match that was worth a damn was the Hardy vs MNM. Sabu getting replaced with Hardcore Holly was horsecrap. I think its time everyone boycotts WWE. Seriously this crap they are putting on tv week after week. Is getting really tired. Its seriously a joke anymore. Vince done all of this on purpose. Brought back ECW so he can kill it. If you want to watch a quality promotion. Watch Ring of Honor you will get your moneys worth. All and all avoid this PPV at all cost. Worst PPV of the year hands down.

Where to start......

First off it may have been called ECW December to dismember, but this had wwe all over it. i.e. it was terrible. Since Vince re-launched ECW back in June he has turned it into a laughing stock, with bad wwe wrestlers - test, the great khali, matt striker, lashley, elijah burke, terkay, to name just a few, performing in a production known for innovative storylines, matches and lots of violance. The fact is if this had been a real ECW event and Tommy Dreamer had been beaten by a roll up by Davari, 10 minutes later their would have been a riot. Dreamer has more in ring ability in one eyebrow than people like great khali and mike knox will ever have.

Now my review -

It started off badly with the usually great Joey Styles (who puts everybody over unlike certain Raw announcers, one who mumbles on and on about his beloved sooners, and only talks about the main event, and another who spends 2 - 3 hours waiting for a young lady to appear more than half his age, just so he can shriek "PUPPIES" in a ridiculously high pitched voice) who says we will crown a new champ tonight. Thanks Joe, we now all know that Big Show drops the belt.

The first match was very, very good, and the best tag match wwe has put on in years, with back and forth action and some good spots and near pin falls. 9/10

But then, oh dear.

Awfull wrestling alert. The next matches are dire to say the least.

I wont bother to review them as they are matches only good enough for Heat a few years back.

It is not people like Balls, Dreamer and the FBIs fault as they are given naff opponents and probably have no creative freedom.

But to have Dreamer and the FBI job to nobodies is crminal.

At the One Night Stand events weapons were allowed in all matches but now we get a so called "extreme rules match" once every 3 weeks if were lucky.
Apart from the Chamber match it was all just normal old wwe rules. So please drop the Extreme name already as it is an offence to real wrestling fans.

The main event you knew would suck when Sabu was taken out and in came, wait for it.....Bob Holly. Now im sorry but Sabu has wrestled with numerous bad injurys and put on credible matches, so it was another screwjob to get a wwe wrestler in the main event.

Now what a farce the Chamber was. RVD and Holly started, in came Punk (who actually has some talent), but was pinned by RVD, then in came test. Then what followed was the most ridiculous pinning farce ever. test big booted Holly who did not kick out, but the ref only counted 2. Then as the ref changes his mind and says it was a 3 count and Holly leaves, Tazz is saying he kicked out and he is still in it. AWFULL. test then pins RVD after a pretty impressive elbow drop onto a chair on RVDs face from the top of a pod. Which the crowd did not like and they were chanting for a refund. Then lashley enters but breaks the table in his pod whilst doing so (ending the table spot ending they probably had) pins test quickly then we have to wait ages for the timer to go down. Big Show comes in hits the chair lashley is holding with the baseball bat several times. Then minutes later lashley pins Show to become the new champ. Cue a few TNA, TNA chants.

All in all, a farsical event. Nowhere near good enough to carry the good name of ECW.

Yes TNA and the real ECW pay-per-views have some bad or sloppy matches (usually involving The Baldies in the latter) but they were only sloppy because they actualy take risks and believe me some of the stuff both companys try or tried were freaking amazing.

The wwe does not care for either tag belts, the cruiserweight division is a joke, with the only person not in a tag team being jimmy wang yang. So helms near 12 month reign is not very impressive to say the least. The womans division is void as well now with both Lita and Trish retiring leaving Mickie James as the only lady that can wrestle and is not just T+A.

Sabu and Jeff Hardy might be earning more, but they should have sticked with TNA. The futre of wrestling.

wwe entertains (and I use the term very loosley) people by having some freak eat worms and every 2 months bringing in 2 old ladys whose combined age is 163, and one of them trying to stop the other taking her bra off.
It also faffs about with ludicrous soap opera storylines, and characters with awfull gimmicks (boogeyman, striker, simon dean, hurricaine helms, spirit squad etc). They also have wrestlers with no in ring ability (great khali, mike knox, lashley, cena and batista). And guys who should have packed it in years ago (sgt slaughter, jim duggan, hogan, dusty rhodes).

Three pay-per-views in 4 weeks also takes the biscuit.

TNA and ROH entertain by concentrating on real wrestling involving insane spots, matt based action and superb counters and finishers.


Ever since they changed the name wwe has been dying.

After watching it in 2006 - wwe is dead.

Between 1997-2001, if you would have told any wrestling fan on the planet that a PPV with the initials "ECW" attached to it would result in being one of the worst PPV's of all time, we would have thought you were nuts. Even after the One Night Stand PPV's, most people would have still thought you were nuts but man how times have changed.

Normally on my PPV reviews, I'll review match by match but I'm not going to waste my time here & I'll get straight to the point. I gave this DVD 2 stars for 2 reasons. One is the crowd interaction because this had the crowd reaction that Vince was scared of (which is why this PPV was moved away from the Hammerstein Ballroom). This was a crowd that wasn't going to take any crap & let WWE know about it and that's the only reason I wasn't skipping through every match past the opening tag. You would tell that from their reaction to when they replaced Sabu with Hardcore Holly, or when the two most popular stars on the ECW brand were the first two eliminated from the chamber match...even to the point to where they started to chant "TNA! TNA! TNA!" during a match (which isn't edited out on the DVD) which reminded me of when the fans chanted "ECW! ECW! ECW!" during the King Of The Ring PPV in '95.

The other was the opening match between MNM & The Hardys. This was the type of tag team match that you don't get in WWE anymore..they were given alot of time to go out there & tell a story and give us a match that will be talked about for months without having to crash through a table or jump off a ladder. WWE doesn't care about their tag teams anymore so to see a tag team match like this is a blessing for those fans who actually value tag team wrestling from as recent as London & Kendrick, MNM, Team 3D/Dudley Boyz, and the Hardys to teams of the past like the Steiner Brothers, Road Warriors/Legion Of Doom, and the Hart Foundation.

Besides these two points, this show was a 3 hour edition of Shotgun Saturday Night in which it was dry & heavily one-sided, all these matches were thrown together at the last minute, they did a last minute bait & switch on the main event, the PPV ended over a half hour early, and the one character who was used on all the poster & promos for the event (Sandman) only made a cameo appearence at the end of a match.

The DVD extras include post-Chamber match comments from all the participants along with the Big Show's final match against Lashley from ECW on Sci-Fi. I only suggest you rent this DVD just to check out the Hardys/MNM match and also to amuse yourself at how the crowd just completely turns on this entire show. Besides that, this will go down as one of the worst in wrestling history next to Legends Of Wrestling, nWo Souled Out, Starrcade '94, and the '04 Great American Bash.

Matches

1. Kevin Thorn & Ariel def. Mike Knox & Kelly Kelly
Pretty much anything with Mike Knox is a worthless, pointless waste of time. Sad to see that the Vampire character is still around. I'm guessing it's only because WWE likes keeping the large chested Ariel on TV.
2.Elijah Burke & Sylvester Terkay def. F.B.I
So these ECW newcomers take on a couple ECW old-schoolers. Nothing special here. This is not a ppv caliber match. Filler basically.
3.Balls Mahoney def. Matt Striker
Balls, a lifetime ECW Mid-carder takes on Matt Striker, evil teacher and poor heel. Balls was always fun to watch and his matches were usually pretty decent. It's just hard to care when he's wrestling a jobber like Matt Striker.
4. Daivari def. Tommy Dreamer
Sandman has the night off. Him and Dreamer could have brought some legitimacy to this ppv by having a good old school ECW match. Instead they give us Dreamer vs. Daivari. Dreamer takes a brutal bump near the entrance way from the Great Khali. Khali has no business in a ring. It's sad to see Tommy still in ECW. I guess he stuck with it through it's dying days in 2001. Now he'll stay with it as it sinks down to being the worst wrestling show on television (Behind RAW, Impact, and Smackdown)
5. The Hardys def. MNM
A decent tag match. Weird how neither team has ever had anything to do with ECW. I guess when they don't develop their roster, they have to bring in Raw and Smackdown guys to fill out the ppv card. No really amazing bumps or excitement.
6. The Extreme Elimination Chamber Main Event
Sabu is mysteriously taken out of the match. Not sure what that's about but I'm not happy. They replace him with Bob "hardcore" Holly. Big Show is the champ going into this match and he takes on Holly, Lashley, CM Punk, RVD, and Test. RVD and CM Punk seem to get the biggest reaction from the small crowd. The match has a lot of weapons and a couple big spots. It's in no way worth the price of the dvd. The previous elimination chamber matches were all better than this. Big Show loses the title to Lashley after a very weak looking spear.

This ppv takes place in Georgia of all places, so the hostile, northeastern crowd is taken out of the picture.

From top to bottom, this ppv is hard to watch. I am not surprised to hear that Paul Heyman is now done with this brand and with WWE. I would expect that RVD, Sabu and Sandman will pack their bags pretty soon too. They can let the new breed blue chippers like Matt Striker, Mike Knox, and Kevin Thorn carry the torch of ECW. CM Punk, having talent, will likely be moved to Raw or Smackdown.

The ECW One Night Stand ppvs are vastly superior to this junk. Buy those and I guarantee that you'll have a fun time watching them. This will just bore and depress you. If you're a fan of the old ECW, do not even consider watching this. It's the same name but a completely different product.

I'm not really a kid, just can't be bothered to sign up to review this piece of crap.

This event was a disaster and was the opposite of everything the real ecw stood for. Since being revived in June ecw is basically just a watered down version of raw or smackdown. The new ecw is even less hardcore than raw or smackdown. Now onto the review.

MATCH 1: MNM Vs Team Extreme (The Hardy Boyz) - 9/10
This was a great match. The only decent match of the evening.

MATCH 2: Matt Striker Vs Balls Mahoney - 3/10
Not even heat worthy. Just terrible.

MATCH 3: Elijah Burke + Sylvester Terkay vs The F.B.I - 2/10
Just a squash match.

MATCH 4: Daivari Vs Tommy Dreamer - 3/10
Meh.

MATCH 5: INTERGENDER TAG MATCH - Kevin Thorn + Ariel Vs Mike Knox + Kelly Kelly - 2/10
Worst match of the night.

MATCH 6: ECW TITLE - EXTREME ELIMINATION CHAMBER MATCH - The Big Show Vs Bobby Lashley Vs Test Vs Hardcore Holly Vs CM Punk Vs Rob Van Dam - 5/10
I feel I am being generous bu even giving it 5/10. Without a doubt the worst elimination chamber match yet. The three wrestlers with actual talent Hardcore Holly, CM Punk and Rob Van Dam were elimination within 10 minutes while three no talent hacks Bobby Lashley, Test and The Big Show were left to continue for the next 15 minutes. It was so badly booked that at several points during the match wrestlers were just standing around waiting for a wrestler to come into the match because there was noone else to fight.

OVERALL EVENT RATING - 3/10

Wow, just awfull. The only decent match was by wrestlers who are not even in the new ecw. The weekly shows on sci-fi are a joke. To top it off this pay per view ended at 2 hours and 18 minutes, neary 45 minutes early! Shortest and worst wwe pay per view event ever! Avoid!

ECW isnt the same and everyone knows that. I saw ECW live in July and was very unhappy with the show. RVD was banned for drug use and he was the only reason why I wanted to go. They had about 3 good matches, all took place after an intermission. This PPV is like a Sci Fi show and should have not even taking place. Ive seen Lashley wrestle live and the guy stinks; He's a modern day mix of Ultimate Warrior and Ahmed Johnson. ECW is getting a little better, but not that impressive. Taking stars like Sandman, Balls Mahoney, and Tommy Dreamer, making them whipping boys, isn't a great idea. ECW should just be canceled

Everyone knows just what the McMahons think of ECW, and how they've made the phrase "ECW on Sci-Fi" into more of a joke than the XFL. Ratings plummet, quality deteriorates, and the WWE FORCES Sci-Fi to pick up ECW for 2008.

Anyway, on to WWECW's first PPV! And what better way to start off than to feature a 30 minute match featuring two RAW and two Smackdown competitors?

"One Night Only"
The Hardy Boys vs MNM (not the rapper or candy)
This match went about 10-15 minutes too long in my opinion, and it only really showed in the beginning. The first half of this match was a sluggish, typical WWE brawl consisting of lazy moves, go-nowhere headlocks and submission holds, and lameness galore. By the second half, it escalated to an amazing tag team (including a use of the forbidden standing Shooting Star Press by Nitro) match, which ultimately suffered from having that boring as hell first half. This was great wrestling, but it wasn't ECW. (8/10)


Matt Striker vs Balls Mahoney
This could be a phenomenal match. Not only is Balls Mahoney a great hardcore wrestler from ECW, but he's got a legitimate wrestling background, as does Matt Striker So the WWE decides to give you perhaps the worst 7 minutes of the night, and that's really saying something. Balls gets in maybe 4-5 offensive moves in, while Striker pulls off even less actual moves, and Balls suddenly gets the pin out of nowhere. This match sucked, and the audience knew it. (0/10)

There were very LOUD and NOTICEABLE chants of "TNA!" from the front row, a small select group all throughout the night.


Elijah Burke and Sylvester Terkay vs F.B.I. w/ Trinity
Great to see the FBI back. And I personally loved Trinity's dress. The match was not that horrible, but it was a bit bland. Terkay surprised me by having some wrestling skill, and Tony Mamaluke and Little Guido worked with perfect cohesion. Still, it was not reciprocated much, and the ending came out weak. (4/10)


Tommy Dreamer vs Daivari
Continuing the McMahon tradition of bombs comes this match, very poorly executed, and heralding chants of "TNA!". It ended horribly, involving Tommy Dreamer chasing Daivari and getting attacked by The Great Khali. The highlight of this match was one guy in the audience, who screamed "THIS ISN'T EXTREME, IT'S ENTERTAINMENT!" (0/10)


Mike Knox and Kelly Squared vs Kevin Thorn and Ariel
Aside from when the women did things the audience was dead, utterly dead. No one really cared about Knox or Thorn, and it showed. "TNA!" chants occurred. I thought Kevin Thorn did quite well against the dud that was Mike Knox, and Ariel did amazing against the even bigger dud that was Kelly Kelly. But nothing could save the match, not even Ariel's thonged rear end poking halfway out her skirt. (0/10)


"Extreme" Elimination Match
Rob Van Dam vs The Big Show (C) vs CM Punk vs Bobby Lashley vs Test vs Sa-... Hardcore Holly?
Yeah, midway through the event, Sabu was taken out of the event, because you don't want to climax an ECW event with an ECW star and innovator in the main event. You want Hardcore Holly! A man whose charisma and skill is as dead as a Best of Al Snow collection. So now we have yet another dud in the "EXTREEEEEEEME" Elimination Chamber match. I thought the first ever Elimination Chamber was overrated, so I'm expecting nothing from this one.

Paul Heyman comes out, and dies inside as he spouts out his McMahon-approved script of essentially turning his back on everything ECW, claiming old ECW sucked the likes Rob Van Dam and Sabu and The Sandman are dead, and the future is in... The Big Show, Test, and Hardcore Holly.

Also, when Heyman declares that Big Show is the future of ECW, some smark in the front row screams "YEAH, UNTIL HE RETIRES NEXT JANUARY!" He must have been a psychic because the Big Show indeed never returned to WWE TV after December.

Match begins and the six competitors come out, starting off with Hardcore Holly and Rob Van Dam, while the other four go into chambers, with such "extreme" weapons as a table, a chair, a fake crowbar, and oh look, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire! Something actually extreme.

Holly simply sucked. Luckily, Van Dam managed to make him look good, and pulled off some of the same stuff he did in the first one. Then CM Punk came out.

I was expecting nothing, so when CM Punk went and started to rival Rob Van Dam in high flying and great wrestling, I was shocked. Then the two went at it, and I was stunned. They had phenomenal chemistry, and the makings of a great feud. But in typical WWE fashion, they completely fumble that, and put CM Punk against... Mike Knox, The Miz, and other people who suck.

Suddenly the eliminations came... CM Punk was eliminated first, and the audience was livid. People started chanting "BULL****" as he left. Then Test came out, and Hardcore Holly was... pinned? I'm thinking the referee must have been retarded. He didn't count a three, and Holly kicked out at three, yet still he eliminated him. Test then eliminated Van Dam, again to the anger of the crowd.

Bobby Lashley was out next, and Heyman's goonies kept him in the chamber. So the table is now out of the match as he uses it to bust out of the top of the chamber and climb out. Lashley had the makings of a good power wrestler but the booking wasn't right. His spears are weak, and he isn't given enough things to do. Test is eliminated, and we literally get a whole minute of nothing to wait until Big Show comes out.

The last five minutes of the match consist of Lashley dominating the Big Show, then pinning out of nowhere and winning. Total dud. (3/10)


Just like the first ever one, they completely over-sold the Chamber and it's "brutality". Even worse than the first one, as aside from the use of perfectly normal hardcore weapons, this was a normal match that happened to be surrounded by a circular cage. And the commentators make you think they had just been in a flaming Hell in a Cell with barbed wire and broken glass with hypodermic needles full of ebola virus riddling the cage.


Total bomb. And the McMahons dare to lay the blame on Paul Heyman.

WWE proves that wrestling still sucks ever since they bought WCW. With the worst ppv in 3 years since Armageddon 2003, see why WWE continues to use the name of another promotion that no longer exists to disgrace their name! See why if I saw Vince McMahon on the street, I'd kick him in the balls and spit on him for disgracing the ECW name like this. See why wrestling truly has sucked for the most part since the purchase of WCW! You'll get it all on this dull, boring, piece of crap DVD that shouldn't even exist. Experience a true crapfest! WWE (Not ECW) December 2 Dismember!