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Post by saintchancellor on Aug 16, 2010 20:45:28 GMT -5
Was that the greatest Pay Per View or what? I was watching it earlier and wow, just great. I think besides last night with Danielson returning, that was the last night that I was extremely excited for wrestling. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by Houdini of Hardcore on Aug 16, 2010 20:50:14 GMT -5
That one was good but I always liked the first one more
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Post by derrtaysouth95 on Aug 16, 2010 21:14:06 GMT -5
The first one existed for the nostalgia of it.
The second one existed for a final hurrah and to give RVD the title as a way of relauching ECW as a brand.
Both were very solid ppvs.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Aug 16, 2010 22:18:44 GMT -5
The matches were better on ONS 2, but I prefer the original just for the emotion. I just watched it this weekend. Great PPV. Edge/Foley v. Funk/Dreamer is a stand-out of the show. FBI v. Tajiri/Crazy holds up well. Sabu/Rey was really good before the abrupt ending. RVD winning the WWE Championship was great, especially with the crowd being so involved in the match.
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Post by Shameful_Lobsterhead on Aug 16, 2010 22:21:17 GMT -5
2nd was great for reasons mentioned
Love the 1st one more simply because I grew up watching ECW in the late 90s and it had such a raw emotion that can't be matched.
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 16, 2010 22:37:24 GMT -5
The 2nd show had too many WWE guys on it. While it was somewhat amusing to see Orton get utterly trashed by that vicious crowd I still had zero use for him on an ECW PPV. But at least Orton was a heel. I've never understood why WWE would want John Cena to go into that environment to receive the most hostile reaction in history. It didn't really make for a particularly good match with RVD...I dare say I preferred the rematch on Raw a couple of weeks later.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Aug 16, 2010 22:49:07 GMT -5
The second one was awesome at the time because I really thought that they were going to do ECW right. That night made you hopeful... and then ECW on SciFi started. The original concept of keeping it a Northeastern promotion that ran smalll to mid-sized venues and ran maybe two shows per week and a TV taping was the way to do it right. Push a more wrestling based product, a more adult WWE product using the ECW brand.
I still wish though that they just had someone with the motorcycle helmet run in, DDT Cena and do the Dreamer/Raven pose. Never say anything about it being Raven... but damned if that would not have been better than Edge.
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Post by saintchancellor on Aug 16, 2010 23:00:47 GMT -5
The second one was awesome at the time because I really thought that they were going to do ECW right. That night made you hopeful... and then ECW on SciFi started. The original concept of keeping it a Northeastern promotion that ran smalll to mid-sized venues and ran maybe two shows per week and a TV taping was the way to do it right. Push a more wrestling based product, a more adult WWE product using the ECW brand. I still wish though that they just had someone with the motorcycle helmet run in, DDT Cena and do the Dreamer/Raven pose. Never say anything about it being Raven... but damned if that would not have been better than Edge. I thought it was Raven at first when it happened. God, the entire wrestling world went f***ing nuts that night.
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Post by derrtaysouth95 on Aug 16, 2010 23:09:55 GMT -5
I too was a bit disappointed in that the biker helmet being Edge.
It made sense because of his feud with Cena....but just having someone get dropped with a ddt would've been so much bigger.
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Post by madness50 on Aug 16, 2010 23:20:39 GMT -5
I was so impressed how well Cena did being that the crowd chanted "F you Cena" the whole damn match.
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