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Post by salsashark on Nov 9, 2007 0:42:11 GMT -5
Is there seriously a better PPV than this? I really doubt it. And I just saw it for the first time yesterday.
I missed out on wrestling after I stopped watching around 2001 and now that I am back into it, I am soaking up all those lost years. This show is sincerely the best PPV I think I have ever seen.
It has everything:
1. Nostalgia
2. Incredible spots (The flaming table!)
3. Great wrestling (Eddie/Benoit)
4. An A-grade brawl (Awesome/Tanaka)
5. A really good lucha match (Rey/Psicosis, and to a lesser extent Tajiri/Super Crazy/Little Guido)
6. Storyline progression (The RAW/Smackdown thing was in full effect)
7. A satisfying ending with an incredible line by the victim
8. Surprise appearances
9. Awesome promos (RVD and Paul Heyman)
10. More than one shoot! (RVD and Paul Heyman, again)
11. An incredibly energetic and opinionated crowd
12. A good commentary team (Foley and Styles)
13. Lots of broken kayfabe here and there
14. Profanity (I love hearing Stone Cold uncensored)
15. So much violence
16. Catfights!!
17. SNITSKY!! (through a table)
I cannot get over how much I adore this PPV. At this point, WWE did ECW so right (Probably because Heyman was still at the reins).
Also, this is the first I have ever seen of Masato Tanaka and he RULES.
What does everyone else think (especially folks who saw it when it happened, which is probably most of you guys)?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2007 0:43:10 GMT -5
Yup, it's pretty sweet.
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Post by marvelocity on Nov 9, 2007 0:46:07 GMT -5
I loved that PPV as well. Great to hear Sandman enter to Metallica one last time (not on the DVD, find the original broadcast somewhere to download). Proves it was possible to bring back the old ECW in 2005. Unfortunately, by 2006 WWE had no interest in doing this, and now the opportunity is gone.
I consider it the last "Original ECW" show.
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Post by badantoineaccid on Nov 9, 2007 0:54:20 GMT -5
yup, one of the best PPV's in a long while. WWE needs to do something like that for ECW... again... since they had already bought them and stuff before this whole WWE/WCW/ECW feud thingy or whatever....
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Post by JMA on Nov 9, 2007 1:05:30 GMT -5
Kind of makes one wonder what the "new" ECW would've been like had it been solely an online show. Vince wouldn't have sent Show and Angle there (meaning they'd probably still be in WWE) and RVD would've just been ECW World Champion instead of WWE Champion. I think if WWE had managed to sign Rhino, Spike, and maybe Lynn then they would've went with the online show idea. I may write that story one day.
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Post by HRH The KING on Nov 9, 2007 1:18:48 GMT -5
Awesome PPV that was like a breath of fresh air....
....so naturally WWE management hated it.
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Post by dsriggs on Nov 9, 2007 3:36:27 GMT -5
...well, to be honest, the Mysterio/Psycosis was pretty crap and was booed out of the building iirc, and Eddie left his working shoes in his other bag. The "WWE INVAZN!!!" stuff was annoyingly pointless.
...other then that, GREAT PPV!
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Post by thesam07 on Nov 9, 2007 4:30:07 GMT -5
I've never watched the thing in it's entirety. Mostly because I can't find a DVD of it.  |
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Post by oniloco on Nov 9, 2007 5:30:23 GMT -5
The Eddie/Chris match was prettty poor given the talent and their previous matches. But hey, it was still a great overall PPV.
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Post by Loki on Nov 9, 2007 6:48:04 GMT -5
ONS worked because people were dying to see ECW-esque wrestling once again after many years of absence.
It worked because it was a "one-off" thing. No matter how WWE could have booked the new ECW, fans would have hated it anyway for either being a copycat version of "original ECW" [only without all the performers] or for being a bastardized WWE-ized take on the glorious ECW.
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Post by Joker on Nov 9, 2007 7:16:39 GMT -5
A great PPV which I have on recorded on to VHS.
Hell to start a PPV with a match of the qaulity that was Lance Storm vs Chris Jericho is pure awesome.
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Post by Slim Loves Lily on Nov 9, 2007 7:30:07 GMT -5
I enjoyed the hell out of the Lance Storm/Jericho match.
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Post by Fuji's racist salt on Nov 9, 2007 7:48:56 GMT -5
watched it fews weeks back loved every min of it
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Post by willywonka666 on Nov 9, 2007 7:50:51 GMT -5
It was one of the best ppv's I had seen in years-and I didn't even get to see a lot of ECW in its prime.
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Post by Next Level was WRONG on Nov 9, 2007 7:59:50 GMT -5
I still think Eddie just got pissed at the fans poking fun at Edge instead of paying attention to the match.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Nov 9, 2007 9:18:19 GMT -5
I've been on protest from buying that DVD ever since I learned that Sandman's entrance was dubbed (though I have a copy of it in my iTunes, the entrance I mean).
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Post by Metalheadbanger Man on Nov 9, 2007 9:43:34 GMT -5
Awesome PPV, even the matches that are widely considered letdowns (Benoit/Guerrero, Rey/Psicosis) are pretty damn good. One real flaw is over-doing the "WWE invades" story, constantly showing reactions of clowns like Orlando Jordan or Snitsky.
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Post by Kenny Brockelstein on Nov 9, 2007 9:57:19 GMT -5
Is there seriously a better PPV than this? I really doubt it. And I just saw it for the first time yesterday. I missed out on wrestling after I stopped watching around 2001 and now that I am back into it, I am soaking up all those lost years. This show is sincerely the best PPV I think I have ever seen. It has everything: 1. Nostalgia 2. Incredible spots (The flaming table!) 3. Great wrestling (Eddie/Benoit) 4. An A-grade brawl (Awesome/Tanaka) 5. A really good lucha match (Rey/Psicosis, and to a lesser extent Tajiri/Super Crazy/Little Guido) 6. Storyline progression (The RAW/Smackdown thing was in full effect) 7. A satisfying ending with an incredible line by the victim 8. Surprise appearances 9. Awesome promos (RVD and Paul Heyman) 10. More than one shoot! (RVD and Paul Heyman, again) 11. An incredibly energetic and opinionated crowd 12. A good commentary team (Foley and Styles) 13. Lots of broken kayfabe here and there 14. Profanity (I love hearing Stone Cold uncensored) 15. So much violence 16. Catfights!! 17. SNITSKY!! (through a table) I cannot get over how much I adore this PPV. At this point, WWE did ECW so right (Probably because Heyman was still at the reins). Also, this is the first I have ever seen of Masato Tanaka and he RULES. What does everyone else think (especially folks who saw it when it happened, which is probably most of you guys)? I agree with everything you've said here, apart from two small points. 1. You didn't mention that it features the greatest entrance in wrestling history (Sandman's, oviously) 2. Foley was toilet on commentary in this show. Styles was great, but Foley was hopeless unprepared and added nothing to the show IMO. Apart from that, OUTSTANDING pay-per-view. Listen to the crowd for god's sake, and just imagine a crowd in the current WWE actually caring about a show even half as much as that crowd did. Never gonna happen, and that is a shame. |
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Post by Turd Ferguson on Nov 9, 2007 12:27:46 GMT -5
...well, to be honest, the Mysterio/Psycosis was pretty crap and was booed out of the building iirc, and Eddie left his working shoes in his other bag. The "WWE INVAZN!!!" stuff was annoyingly pointless. ...other then that, GREAT PPV! I think Eddy was messed up that night. |
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Post by Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley on Nov 9, 2007 13:21:50 GMT -5
I was apprehensious before this PPV. As a die-hard ECW fan, I wanted it back in the worst way, but knew the risk of WWE screwing it up (a la WWECW now). But as for ONS '05, it went off exactly the way it should have, even with some surprises (RVD shoot, Stone Cold at the end). It was the perfect send-off to ECW.
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