ECW – 2/2/10

Last night on ECW, aside from the usual wrestling action, Vince McMahon had an announcement that would shake up ECW to the core.  Here’s what went down:

Tony Atlas introduced the Abraham Washington Show starring Abraham Washington.

• Abe says, “the reason why I haven’t been here the past few weeks is because NBC has been trying to steal me away to replace Conan.  I turned them down because of my loyalty to you WWE fans!”
• ECW Champion, Christian, is the guest on the show.  Abe tells him a statistic that “Christian is the longest reigning current champion in WWE.”  As Christian goes to respond, he’s interrupted…
• Zack Ryder & Rosa Mendez come out.  Ryder says, “Let’s talk about some real news…”  Gregory Helms‘ mug shot appears on the Titantron.  “Some guy who claims to be a super hero and what does he go do, gets into a drunken brawl like those posers from Jersey Shore.”
• Christian replies, “Are you upset that he did something you haven’t, made TMZ?  Maybe it’s because you’re both on TV but only he gets recognized in public… Everyone makes mistakes.  Our GM Tiffany made a mistake when she gave Abe his own talk show… You make mistakes too, the biggest being when you hooked up with Tila Tequila over there!”
• Shoving match begins, and Abe calls an end to the show.

Shelton Benjamin vs. Vance Archer
WINNER: Vance Archer via pin fall with his feet on the ropes.

• Botched the original ending of the match because they were too close to the ropes on a sunset flip by Benjamin that was countered by Archer.

Yoshi Tatsu with Goldust vs. Trent Barreta with Caylen Croft
WINNER: Yoshi Tatsu via pin after kicking Barreta in the head.

Vince McMahon comes out to the entrance ramp.  “I would like to announce that in three weeks time, ECW will be going off the air!”  He thanks all the people that have been involved with the show.  Then says, “there’s going to something in the same time slot that will be the next evolution in the WWE!”

Gregory Helms is in the ring and announces Ezekiel Jackson & William Regal. He asks them about what they plan to do to get pass the loss to Christian?

• Regal says, “It’s been a trying week for you, huh?  Well it’s about to get worse!”
• Regal and Jackson destroy Helms, but Christian comes down to the ring with a kendo stick to clean house.

Christian vs. Zack Ryder with Rosa Mendez
WINNER: Christian via DQ when Ezekiel Jackson and William Regal run in and destroy Christian.

QUICK THOUGHTS:

It’s a damn shame that they’ve decided to exploit the incident with Gregory Helms.  It’s bad enough that the guy has been scrutinized by the media, but now they decide to poke fun at it on ECW… that’s just messed up!

As for the big time announcement, Vince McMahon practically destroyed the name of ECW by turning it into this watered down, WWE bull shit a long time ago.  The last remnant of the orignal ECW, Tommy Dreamer, is no longer with the company, so I’m not surprised that the announcement about repackaging ECW into something new came at this time.  I have to warn you, if you think it’s going to be anything different than what you’ve been seeing recently, think again.  I’m banking on it being the same stuff we’ve seen, young developmental stars that Vince wants to test in the spotlight of national TV.