ECW Results 11/17/09: The Nickel – Hurricane vs. Ripper V and Captain Charisma On The Straightedge

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Straightedge On Deck: Is it me or is ECW finally getting some respect again? First, Jericho shows up aboard the S.S. Extreme to do battle with Captain Charisma, but now a straightedge is drawn along the ship’s deck.

CM Punk returned to his WWE roots to continue further consumption of darkness. Somehow Christian must have know “what’s up” having some reinforcement from Friday Night Smackdown, and that’s the truth.

Punk didn’t end up walking the plank like Jericho did, instead Christian walked the straightedge. CM Punk put the ECW to sleep for calling him a nerd. Regal and Punk get off to a very slow start while Truth and Christian hit missile dropkicks from the rope at the same time.

Both rolled out of the ring trying to gather themselves. Back in the ring, Regal is getting destroyed by Truth, who is way faster than him. Punk runs in and gets thrown out of the ring with Regal. Christian and Truth follow up with a double baseball slide to both villains.

Truth starts to limp on his left ankle and Regal and Punk go on the prowl for it. After about three minutes of isolation, Truth gets the hot tag from Christian and he explodes on Regal. He hits him with a tornado DDT from the top rope and Regal rolls out of the ring.

The GTS gets countered after the killswitch gets countered. Regal and Truth both rush into the ring and Regal finishes off Truth’s leg and hits Christian with the Knee Trembler. Christian becomes groggy and soon, it’s nighty night Captain.  The GTS puts him away and the two heels celebrate on route to Survivor Series.

Xtreme Xscape: Paul “The Ripper” Burchill probably just pulled of the greatest ECW escape I’ve seen. Burchill  put himself in a win-win situation against the Hurricane unmasking him if wins, but leaving the land of extreme if he loses. Burchill and Hurricane started off with some mat work, The Ripper gives hand gestures of ripping off Hurricane’s mask.

Burchill forces Hurricane into the corner and gives him some shoulder thrusts before Irish whipping him to another corner. He attacks again, but Hurricane tosses him out of the ring. Hurricane frontflips over the ropes and onto Burchill before  both returned to the ring.

Bryon Saxton and Josh Matthews are continously stating how demented Burchill’s mind is.  The Ripper losses momentum and, Hurricane starts to explode with clotheslines and strikes, but Burchill counters the eye of the Hurricane with a Pele kick.

Hurricane tries again, but Burchill counters with a Northern Lights suplex for a near fall. Katie Lea keeps distracting the Hurricane, who flew from the top rope onto Burchill. Another Katie Lea distraction results in a jackhammer suplex from Burchill for another near fall.

Hurricane finally hits the eye of the Hurricane, but Burchill kicks out! Katie Lea tries once more to interfere when the two battle on the top rope, but it was all over when Hurricane connected with a huge swinging neckbreaker from the top rope nearly across the entire ring.

One this day the Hurricane protects the streets of ECW! Both Burchills look like there were about to cry, but its a good thing, they’re asylum alumni now. Good match.

Edge of The Nickel

Dragging The Standards: Zack Ryder comes out talking about Twitter (Follow TWD on Twitter!) and then he starts drooling over Rosa Mendes telling her how cool and beautiful she was. Mendes starts talking about buying a pair of boots at a shoe store…shoot me now.

Ryder tells Mendes to be in his corner again as he’s challenging Shelton Benjamin…again. Mendes starts talking about Hispanic dishes and goes all Rey Mysterio on us. Benjamin finally comes out and accepts the challenge. He calls Ryder a tool and says he should change his name to Black & Decker because now he’s a power tool (decent try Shelton).

Benjamin suggested he’d have some one on one time with Mendes and Ryder slaps him to the ground.  Ryder screams “No one disrespects my girl!” and retreats quickly with Mendes while Benjamin gets up with a serious face followed by a smile.

The never ending Shelton Benjamin limbo continues in the land of extreme with Zack Ryder. Obviously his feud against Ryder some weeks back was instantly forgotten, but the worse part is having him as this third wheel while he should be main eventing with Christian. It’s acceptable for now due to Survivor Series around the corner and no ECW title match.

Burchill’s departure takes away yet another heel from ECW leaving only Regal’s goons as villains who have yet to have gotten a title shot. Does someone else get called up? Hopefully Benjamin can finally be inserted into the title picture heading towards TLC.

Still Aiming: Another squash for Archer, oh great. The markman taking aim at the Hurricane would certainly give us a Merlyn vs. Green Arrow like showdown though Hurricane reflects the Green Lantern.

Tails

Mr. Washington: Are you kidding me? No Abe?

No Bueno!

Other ways besides his talk show must be found to showcase Abe, he’s too good of a speaker not to be on the show. Just make him GM already, he’d thrive in that position.

New York City/MSG RAW Video: Many of the greatest MSG moments were shown along with a recap of this week’s RAW main event. Not only was this thing over five minutes long, but Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind was playing and it didn’t go with the video at all. Jay-Z is no bueno to me as well. Even as a native New Yorker I found this video ridiculous minus the Cena tombstone from Taker.

Quick Hits

The Hurricane d. Paul Burchill (Mask vs ECW Career Match) Match Rating – 4.0 stars out of 5

Vance Archer d. Local Jobber Match rating – 1 star out of 5

William Regal & CM Punk d. Christian & R-Truth  Match Rating – 3.5 stars out of 5

Line(s) of The Night

“It’s like Alexander the great returning to the land he conquered.” –  CM Punk during ECW opening segment.

“You don’t drink, you don’t smoke…are you allowed to hold a girl’s hand?” – Christian to CM Punk before main event

Extreme Eight

1. The Hurricane [High jumper] (Vanquished The Ripper from ECW)

2. Christian

3. William Regal

4. Paul Burchill [Mastermind] (escapes ECW in a win-win situation)

5. Shelton Benjamin

6. Zack Ryder

7. Katie Lea Burchill (Adios Katie! Go help that Women’s division)

8. Vance Archer