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10/28 WWE ECW Hits & Misses: 6 Man Tag, Swagger vs. Dreamer, Dirt Sheet

Oct 30, 2008 - 12:21:45 PM
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By Jon Mezzera, Torch Specialist

ECW HITS

Swagger vs. Dreamer: WWE has shown that a long slow build of a dominant heel can work in what they have done with Vladimir Kozlov on Smackdown. Now, it looks like they are trying to prove that a quicker rise of a heel can work on ECW with the All American American Jack Swagger. This was his first real in ring test outside of simple squashes, and he looked good. It was good to see him in the ring with a well established wrestler like Tommy Dreamer. Dreamer isn't that credible at this point, but he is the most credible opponent that Swagger has wrestled yet. The match went 9 minutes and had solid to good action. Swagger showed that he can sell, but still looked strong. The match had a nice ending sequence as Swagger reversed a DDT attempt into a northern lights suplex for a near fall, then picked up the win moments later.

Dirt Sheet: This was probably the best of the ECW Dirt Sheets. John Morrison and The Miz both delivered on the mic. They had some interesting things to say about Degeneration X, some of which many fans probably agree with at this point. The political commercial parody was amusing. It went down hill a bit with the two guys doing the DX imitation. We've seen guys wearing fake noses mimicking Triple H too many times over the years. But, the guy doing Shawn Michaels was pretty good in his mannerisms. The segment got back on track as it moved away from the DX imitation, and got back to Miz & Morrison's trash talking.

ECW MISSES

6 Man Tag: There was some good wrestling action in this match. However, the problems I have with it are enough to over look the action and give it a Miss. For one thing, the match-up was too random. Evan Bourne is feuding with Mark Henry, so that makes sense. Henry wants a shot at Matt Hardy's ECW Championship, so that makes sense. But, the other three made no sense. Chavo Guerrero and Bam Neeley have broken up two times already, so why are they still teaming? This did nothing to advance their rift storyline. What did Finlay have to do with any of the other five in the match? Did Teddy Long decide he wanted a 6 Man Tag (I have temporarily given up on trying to change the name of these matches to 3 Man Tags as I feel I was just preaching to the choir - a choir of none) and randomly picked three babyfaces and three heels? Beyond that, it was clear that Bourne had a serious ankle injury. That made it very uncomfortable to watch him take a prolonged attack afterwards. I was thinking more about his possible injury that I was enjoying the match. The end was too hectic. I am really getting tired of Hornswoggle interfering in every Finlay match. I hope Henry has a clause in his contract that if he takes the most shillelagh shots to the head he gets some type of bonus as it seems to happen every other week. I wasn't thrilled to see Guerrero get the win, setting him up as Hardy's next opponent. I am not looking forward to that feud.

Jon Mezzera is PWTorch.com's Hits & Misses Specialist, providing his point of view for Raw, Smackdown, ECW, and TNA Impact each week. Email him at jmezz-torch@sbcglobal.net.

For another view from the original Hitlist author, compare Jason Powell's views to mine by visiting prowrestling.NET's "Hitlist" section here.


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