The ECW December to Dismember Report (12/03/06)
Submitted by Chad Matthews on Sunday, December 3, 2006 at 10:26 PM EST





ECW December to Dismember (December 3, 2006)


Match 1: The Hardy Boyz vs. MNM
-The “Hardy” chants got going before the match started. Matt started against Joey Mercury. A lock-up got the match underway. Neither man could gain an advantage. Matt took Mercury down with a headlock takeover. Back on their feet, Hardy knocked Joey down with a shoulder tackle. He then connected with an armdrag. Mercury prevented any further offense with a double boot to the chin. Both teams got in the ring and had a stare down, as the crowd got behind the Hardys once again. Mercury grabbed an armbar, but Hardy reversed and grabbed one of his own before tossing Mercury shoulder-first into the ring post. Jeff tagged in and flipped Mercury over onto his back with an armbar take down. Matt tagged back in and continued to work over Joey’s arm. Joey escaped and tagged Nitro, but Matt took Johnny down with a monkey toss. Jeff tagged in and hit a slingshot dropkick. Matt tagged back in and the two connected on a fist drop-rolling Senton combination. They then thwarted a Mercury attack with a double wheelbarrow suplex. Jeff tried to continue the offense, but Nitro countered and hit a double elbow smash w/ Mercury. Joey slammed Jeff’s face into Nitro’s boot. Nitro tagged in and hit a falling neckbreaker. He then tried for a standing Shooting Star Press, but Jeff moved and tagged Matt. Hardy proceeded to hit a back elbow and an elbow drop. He tried to follow with a splash in the corner, but missed. Nitro went to the second rope, but Matt caught him and hit a Splash Mountain Bomb for a near fall. Melina got involved soon after and prompted Hardy to go to the outside to deal with her. Mercury laid in waiting and drilled him with a clothesline. MNM then hit a combination gutbuster. Nitro followed with a running knee lift in the corner. Melina again got involved and used a head scissor to choke Matt. Nitro kicked Hardy in the gut and hit a combination facebuster with Mercury for a near fall. MNM made quick tags as the crowd tried to get the Hardys back into the match. Matt eventually countered a double suplex attempt into a double neck breaker and tried to tag Jeff. However, MNM took Jeff out and double teamed Matt. They then connected on the Hardys signature Poetry in Motion move, as Melina screamed her head off in celebration. Trying to add insult to injury, MNM tried to do the Twist of Fate-Swanton combo, but Matt countered and pushed Mercury into Nitro, who was positioned on the top rope. Jeff finally got the hot tag and cleaned house. He went wild on MNM, but Mercury managed to regain control of Jeff, prompting Matt to come back into the ring despite still being groggy. Matt clotheslined Mercury over the top. While the two were battling it out, Nitro leaped over the top rope and came crashing down on them. Jeff wouldn’t be out done, as he ascended to the top rope and hit a splash on all three of them. Back in the ring, the Hardys hit Poetry in Motion on Mercury. Matt then hit the Twist of Fate. Jeff went for the Swanton, but Nitro pulled him off the top rope before the attempt. Eventually, Nitro connected on a missile dropkick on Jeff for a near fall. Nitro began working over Hardy’s lower back. Joey tagged in, as the crowd chanted “Hardy.” MNM proceeded to hit a double slingshot into the top turnbuckle. Mercury then locked on a surfboard stretch. Nitro tagged back in and the two performed a double arm flip that sent Hardy’s lower back into the second turnbuckle. Johnny went on to hit a twisting leg drop, but Jeff began fighting back. It didn’t matter at that point, as Nitro regained control and tossed Jeff to the outside. Mercury and Melina double teamed Jeff while Nitro distracted the ref. Mercury tagged back in and hit a combination leg drop w/ Nitro. Joey continued to work on Jeff’s back. He hit a backbreaker and tagged Nitro, who hit a slingshot elbow drop. Hardy tried to fight back with a sunset flip, but Mercury made a blind tag and stopped the pin attempt. The crowd chanted for Hardy, as Mercury synched on a rear chinlock-facelock. Jeff eventually was able to kick out of a Mercury pin attempt and push him out of the ring. Joey quickly went after Matt to make sure he wasn’t there for Jeff’s attempted tag. Nitro took advantage and kept Jeff at bay before getting the legal tag and attempting a second double slingshot attempt w/ Mercury. Jeff countered this time and hit the Whisper in the Wind. Matt finally got the hot tag and took both MNM members down with repeated clotheslines. He then hit a bulldog-clothesline combo and the Side Effect on both Mercury and Nitro. Matt proceeded to slam Nitro and hit him with the second rope leg drop for a near fall. Jeff tagged back in and the two tried for their neckbreaker-top rope powerbomb combo, but Mercury got Matt out of the way, allowing Nitro to take Jeff back to the mat with a super hurricanrana. The Hardys eventually connected on simultaneous superplexes. Melina got on the apron to prevent them from making counters. She tried to slap Jeff when he tried to address the situation, but Nitro went for a dropkick from behind. Unfortunately for Melina, he missed and hit her. Jeff tried for a roll-up, but Nitro kicked out. MNM then hit the Snap Shot on Jeff, but Matt came from out of nowhere to break up the pin! They got Matt out of the ring and tried for a Snap Shot off the top rope, but Matt again spoiled the plan and hit them with a double Twist of Fate off the top rope. Jeff then connected on a double Swanton Bomb. 1…2…3! The Hardys defeated MNM at 22:34. (CMV1 rating- ****) (CMV1 note- ladies and gentlemen, that is how you do tag team wrestling. Thank you, Mercury, Nitro, Jeff, and Matt for reminding us how it’s done. That was the best, lengthier tag team match I’ve seen since the TLC days. Surprisingly, the crowd kind of zoned in and out of it)


Rob Van Dam talked about Elimination Chamber (in the same pre-taped interview we saw on ECW on Sci-Fi last week)…


Match 2: Matt Striker vs. Balls Mahoney
-(CMV1 note- Striker cut a pre-match promo about the Chamber, about Balls, and about keeping order in the hardcore society). Striker made sure that the match had “strictly enforced rules.” Balls taunted Striker as the match got underway. Mahoney goaded him into a test of strength. Striker accepted, but Balls quickly took him down with a modified fireman’s carry. Matt went to the ropes. Balls performed a leapfrog, to Striker’s dismay. Mahoney followed with an armdrag and a cross armbreaker, but Matt again went to the ropes. The crowd chanted “Balls,” as Striker gave him a cheap shot. Balls tried to gain control with a running shoulder thrust, but Striker moved and sent Mahoney shoulder-first into the steel post. Striker followed with an armbreaker and began working over Mahoney’s left upper appendage. Matt continued to build momentum with a modified Regal Cutter before going back to work on the arm with submission holds. He synched on a key lock. Shoulder thrusts followed for the teacher. Balls tried to fight back with his signature series of jabs, but Matt thwarted the comeback. Mahoney hit a sidewalk slam and went to the top rope, but Striker shook the ropes, causing Balls to get crotched on the top turnbuckle. Strike then locked on a Fujiwara armbar. Balls nearly tapped, but inched toward the side of the ring and grabbed the ropes. Mahoney came back with a falling back drop. He then scored with his jab combo, as the crowd chanted “Balls.” Mahoney followed with a sit-out spinebuster for the win. Balls defeated Striker at 7:23. (CMV1 rating- * ½) (CMV1 note- not bad, but pretty standard, TV-style stuff from these two. I think ECW PPVs should feature only extreme rules matches…that’d be part of what makes them different)

Backstage, CM Punk was warming up for the EC…

Further backstage, Sabu had been laid out and knocked unconscious. Doctors tended to him. (CMV1 note- the crowd chanted “Bullshit.” And they are right…that’s bullshit…taking Sabu out of the only advertised match is bullshit).


Match 3: Elijah Burke and Sylvester Turkey vs. The FBI (w/ Trinity)
-(CMV1 note- Burke cut a pre-match promo about this being the first time we’d get to see the Elijah Experience). Guido started against Burke, who wore a hat. Burke used a wrestling takedown to gain first strike points, but backed away as Guido tried to retaliate. Elijah went for another wrestling takedown, but Guido used a drop toe-hold to take Burke to the mat. He then slapped Burke and took his hat. Mamaluke tagged in and wnet to work on Elijah’s arm. The FBI then connected with a double arm drag and double elbow drop. Tony went back to work on the arm, but Elijah escaped and tagged Turkey. The Bear went for a splash in the corner, but Tony moved and tagged Nunzio. Guido went to the top and tried for a diving cross body block, but Turkey caught him and tossed him outside onto Tony. Burke tagged in and hit an uppercut to the gut on Guido. He then locked on a reverse chinlock. Guido got his feet and battled out of the hold, but Burke tossed him chest-first into the turnbuckle. Turkey tagged back in and hit a front kick that sent Guido clear across the ring. Burke then hit a running knee strike on Guido in the corner. Tony finally got the tag to no pop and hit a pair of dropkicks. He went after Turkey, but couldn’t get any offense on him. Thus, Guido came in and the two hit a double dropkick to the knee and a double dropkick to the face once they got him on his knees. They followed with a double flapjack on Burke. The finish came when Burke hit the Elijah Experience (reverse Flatliner). Burke and Turkey won at 6:31. After the match, Turkey hit Guido with the Muscle Buster (Samoa Joe’s finisher). (CMV1 rating- *) (CMV1 note- not a good match…Burke and Turkey were very methodical in their approach and the pace was too slow for such a short match)

Backstage, Punk and RVD helped get Sabu loaded into a stretcher…

A promo for tomorrow night’s Raw aired…


Match 4: Tommy Dreamer vs. Daivari (w/ Great Khali)
-(CMV1 note- Daivari continued the heel trend and cut a pre-match promo…in Arabic). Daivari had trouble getting Khali to leave the ring before the match started. Once the match began, Daivari scored with a quick flurry of offense. Tommy tried to come back with a quick big boot, but Daivari slid out of the ring. Daivari then took advantage of a Khali distraction to regain control. Dreamer connected with a monkey toss, though, prompting Daivari to again roll out of the ring. Daivari tried for a Pearl Harbor job again, but Dreamer gave him a drop toehold. Dreamer didn’t have much chance to capitalize, as Daivari came back with a jawbreaker and a baseball slide. Tommy came back with a throw into the steel guardrail and a vertical suplex back in the ring. Before Tommy could follow up, Khali pulled him out of the ring. The ref then tossed Khali from ringside, leaving Daivari to fend for himself. Khali took awhile to leave. Back in the ring, Daivari used a snapmare to set up a series of strikes to the back of Tommy’s head. Daivari then locked on a rear chinlock as a small part of the crowd chanted, “We Want Hardcore!” Dreamer made it to his feet, but Daivari yanked him back down by the hair and hit a pair of elbow drops. Daivari then used a neck vice and a sleeper hold-type maneuver to wear down Dreamer and kill the crowd. Dreamer made it to his feet and dropped Daivari on his back. Tommy continued the comeback with a series of right and left hands, a back drop, and an inverted DDT. He then went for the Spicoli Driver, but Daivari countered and eventually went to the top rope. Dreamer caught up to him, but Daivari knocked him back to the mat. Daivari went for a cross body block, but Dreamer moved and eventually set him up in the opposite corner in the tree-of-woe. Dreamer then hit a baseball slide. The finish came when Tommy went for the kill, but Daivari rolled him up with a handful of tights for the win. Daivari defeated Dreamer at 7:24. (CMV1 rating- * ½) (CMV1 note- another half-hearted effort…another made for TV match). After the match, Khali picked up Dreamer and tossed him hard onto the steel ramp.

(CMV1 note- the crowd was quite dead at this point in the PPV…they’ve been dead since Sabu was shown being helped by the medical technicians. I’d guess that they feel cheated. Even Tazz and Styles sound a bit out of it)

In case you haven’t seen it enough, the same “See No Evil” promo that airs every week during every TV show was shown…

Backstage, Paul Heyman replaced Sabu in the EC w/ Hardcore Holly…


Match 5: Mike Knox and Kelly Kelly vs. Kevin Thorne and Ariel
-(CMV1 note- before the match, Kelly wished CM Punk good luck in the Chamber match…prompting a CM Punk chant from the crowd). Knox and Thorn started it off. There was a small “Kelly” chant. Knox and Thorne tried each other’s strength in the early going. Thorne got first strike points with a series of right handed strikes and a back elbow smash. He then hammered away with clubbing forearm blows and tried give Knox a back body drop. However, Knox countered and hit a running clothesline and a series of right handed-strikes of his own. Thorne regained control and continued with basic offense. Knox came back with a body slam and a bicycle kick. Ariel was screaming her lungs out over in her corner. Knox, meanwhile, locked on a neck vice. Ariel tagged in, forcing Knox to tag Kelly. Kelly locked reluctant, but got in there and tried. Ariel quickly struck her in the gut with her boot and pulled on her hair. The vampires then used her boot to choke Kelly. More hair pulling ensued, forcing more horribly acted screams from Kelly. Kelly eventually tried to tag Knox, but he wouldn’t tag her. The crowd applauded Knox, but then started chanting for CM Punk. Ariel gave Kelly a chokeslam and pinned her. Ariel and Thorne defeated Kelly and Knox at 7:45. After the match, Ariel continued her assault until Sandman’s generic music hit and he came to the ring to make the save. (CMV1 rating- ¼ *) (CMV1 note- horrible match…Knox and Thorne looked like they were wrestling their first match. Lumbering, boring offense with no imagination whatsoever. The post-match stuff makes you wonder if Sandman is about to get fired…they won’t even give the guy a match? At least the crowd kind of woke up)

Michael Cole cut a taped interview where he hyped the Armageddon PPV…(CMV1 note- man, they really don’t care about ECW if they use PPV time to hype the SD PPV).

Backstage, Rebecca interviewed Bobby Lashley, who got a mixed reaction from the crowd. She introduced footage of last week’s Lashley-Show match, plus the post-match Heyman and Co. attack. Lashley said that there was nothing that could stop him from becoming ECW Champion.

A video hyping the Extreme Elimination Chamber match was shown…(CMV1 note- this will have to really be good to wake up the crowd, who have really been sucked out of this event with the last few matches)…


Paul Heyman and his security came to the ring. Heyman grabbed a microphone and hyped the Elimination Chamber. A member of the crowd told him that “he sold out.” Heyman talked about his creation: ECW. He said that Hulkamania will die when Hogan dies…Flair’s legend will die when Flair dies…but ECW will survive long after Heyman dies. Heyman did his best to make his PPV seem legit by continuing to hype the main-event. He said that the days of the Sandman, Sabu, and RVD have come to an end…and that the new, global ECW led by the Big Show was going to lead us into 2007…


Match 6: Extreme Elimination Chamber: ECW World Champion Big Show (w/ Paul Heyman) vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Test vs. CM Punk vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Hardcore Holly
-(CMV1 note- Lashley was in the pod with the table, Punk with the chair, Show with the barbed wire bat, and Test with the crowbar). Lashley and Punk taunted Show before the match and motioned that they’d be winning the belt. Test and Punk taunted each other from within their pods. Hardcore Holly and Rob Van Dam were the two who had to start to the match, but before they made their entrances, a small “CM Punk” chant broke out. And here we go…Holly with a go-behind to start off the match, but RVD reversed with a standing switch. Van Dam hit a clothesline, but Holly came back with one of his own and made a cover for not even a one-count. Holly backed Van Dam into the corner, but then tossed him over the top rope and onto the steel. He then snapped Van Dam’s neck across the top rope. RVD came back and tried to hit a move off the top rope, but Holly moved. Van Dam was heading straight for the steel chain border, but he caught it and tried to hit a cross body. However, Holly moved again, sending RVD crashing to the steel. Holly proceeded to slam Van Dam back-first onto the steel. Hardcore went to the top rope for a splash, but RVD got his boot up. Van Dam hit Holly with Rolling Thunder over the top rope. Holly came back with a suplex over the top rope that sent Van Dam back into the ring. They traded blows in the middle of the ring, as the clock counted down and the crowd chanted for Punk. Holly connected with a dropkick for a near fall. 5-minutes expired, so CM Punk came into the ring with his chair and threw it at Holly. He then hit a springboard clothesline on RVD. The crowd went wild. Punk tried to throw the chair into Van Dam’s face, but RVD caught it and threw it back in Punk’s face. RVD then hit a monkey flip that sent Punk’s lower back crashing down on the chair. Van Dam tried to follow with another move on the chair, but Punk countered and hit a Fame-asser that sent RVD crashing face-first into the chair, busting the Whole F’in Show wide open. Punk went on to hit a springboard dropkick on Holly and toss Van Dam head-first into a steel chair set-up in the corner. CM then tried for a hurricanrana off the top rope on Holly, but Hardcore caught him and swung him shoulder-first into the side of the chamber. Holly then hung Punk’s mid-section across the top rope before eventually setting him on the top rope. Hardcore proceeded to hit a sky-high superplex. Van Dam crawled over and tried to pick up the scraps, but Punk kicked out. The crowd chanted for RVD. Punk, meanwhile, hit his running high knee on Holly in the corner, but RVD caught him with a spinning kick. 10-minutes had expired, so Test came into the match with the crowbar. Test buried the end of the bar in RVD’s open wound and choked Punk with its shaft. RVD got his offense going again, knocking Holly to the mat and blasting Test with the steel chair. Van Dam then hit a running dropkick with the chair on CM Punk. RVD then hit Punk with the 5-star Frog Splash. Punk was eliminated at 12:33. The crowd was not happy. Test hit Holly with a running big boot. Holly was eliminated at 13:00. There was some confusion, as it looked as if the ref thought Holly was supposed to kick out…but he didn’t. Van Dam, meanwhile, hit Test with a diving karate kick from the top rope. He then went to the top of Show’s pod and tried to do the Frog Splash, but Show grabbed his foot, allowing Test to catch up to him and drill him with two-chair shots. Van Dam fell to the mat. Test went to the top of Show’s pod and came flying off with a diving elbow drop! RVD was eliminated at 14:13. Test then waited around for another competitor. After 15-minutes had gone by, Lashley’s pod was supposed to open, but Heyman’s security didn’t allow the refs to unlock it. Lashley busted thru the top of the pod with the help of the table, though. Bobby then hit a flying clothesline off the top rope on Test. He proceeded to throw Test thru the plexi-glass side of the pod….and then thru the side of another pod. Test fought back with a rake of the eyes and boot to the jaw. He then went for a chair shot, but Lashley kicked the steel into his face. Lashley used his power moves to regain control before hitting Test in the gut with the crowbar and following with a Spear. Test was eliminated at 19:53. There was about a minute before Show was supposed to enter the chamber, so Lashley got the table and threw it at Show’s pod to try and break it open. He then threw the chair at the side of the pod. As we reached the 20-minute mark, Show came into the match with the barbed wire bat. Show went on the attack, but Bobby blocked the bat shots with the steel chair. Lashley eventually blasted Show with the chair and threw him head-first into the side of the chamber. He posed to a mixed reaction, but then threw Show thru the side of one of the pods. Show was busted open at that point, but got pissed off and busted thru the other side of the pod. Lashley stayed on him, but Show grabbed him and threw him over the top rope and back into the ring. Show then unleashed a massive clothesline and went for the chokeslam. However, Lashley countered into a spike DDT. Lashley eventually tried for a running splash, but Show caught him in mid-air. The finish came when Lashley slid out of a powerslam and hit Show with the Spear. Show was eliminated at 24:56. Thus, Lashley became the new ECW Champion at 24:56. (CMV1 rating- ***) (CMV1 note- well, it was pretty good, but the crowd shit all over it when Punk got eliminated. They weren’t too happy that RVD got ousted either. I’m pretty sure that they were even further pissed off at the fact that the PPV ended at 10:17 ET. That’s got to be the shortest PPV I’ve ever watched! Truly a disappointment due to who was around at the end. The crowd clearly wanted Punk and RVD, but they insisted on leaving the three weakest workers in the match to do the finish. The eliminations were booked just fine…the match itself was, again, pretty good...but it didn’t last long enough and it could’ve been so much more had Punk and Van Dam been in there longer)



Backstage Skits and Interviews - (CMV1 rating- * ½) (CMV1 note- SD’s PPV getting hyped, Sabu getting taken out of the match, and Holly getting added to the main-event were all segments that sucked the life from the live crowd…and me)



0-1.5 stars = Demand a refund and don't take no for an answer. If it was this bad, they should pay you to watch the next two PPVs, at least. (Great American Bash 2005)
1.75-2.25 stars = A below average PPV that wasn't worth the money spent watching. (Survivor Series 2006, Cyber Sunday)
2.5-2.75 stars = An average to above average event that was worth watching on that given night. (Wrestlemania 22, Summerslam 2006)
3.0-3.50 = A really good show that you'd buy on DVD and watch again (Unforgiven 2006, No Way Out 2006)
3.75-5.0 = You never thought a PPV could be this good...


ECW December to Dismember’s Final Score = * ¾ (CMV1 note- sans for the opening match, this was a big giant waste of 40 bucks. That’s three PPVs in a row that were not worth the outrageous cost. I really didn’t have that great of expectations, but I still walked away greatly disappointed by the booking of the chamber match. Punk is the clear cut most over man in ECW, with RVD close behind but falling. Lashley gets only a marginal reaction. I just don’t get it. I expected Lashley to win, but I expected the booking to be better for Punk and RVD, despite Punk being so new and RVD being out of favor with management. The shining moment was Hardys vs. MNM…that was a very good tag match…but at the end of the day, this was one of the worst PPVs of the year…probably the worst)





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