ECW Results 11/24/09: The Nickel – Fuss At The Roundtable & Shelton Benjamin Finally Earns ECW Title Shot

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High Standards/WWE’s Grand Design: Shelton Benjamin receiving “Let’s go Shelton!” chants before the match even starting is excellence. Benjamin chants continuing throughout the match was amazing; Benjamin can get a reaction folks, stop the nonsense.

The Gold Standard easily man handles Ryder for the most part, landing on his feet when Ryder tried to flip him over and giving him a Kurt Angle style belly to belly suplex. Byron Saxton and Josh Matthews were eating it up and so were the fans, who cheered even louder when Benjamin leaped to the top rope, but kicked Ryder onto the ground instead of the usual slam or armbar takedown from the top rope.

After a commercial break, Ryder had an advantage thanks to Rosa Mendes at ringside. Mr. Woo Woo Woo grounded Benjamin and kept him grounded. He went to the top rope for a high splash and gets the near fall. Ryder went for the high splash again putting up the L and I with his fingers for his hometown of Long Island, NY and still makes the splash.

He pins Benjamin for another near fall! The crowd is extremely hot for Benjamin and the Gold Standard hits a German Suplex into a pin for a near fall on a frustrated Ryder. Rosa Mendes screams for her “baby” to win, but Ryder’s lariat gets countered into a powerbomb and he’s finished off with the paydirt.

Shelton Benjamin becomes No. 1 contender for the ECW title. Christian comes out and ends Benjamin’s celebration. He starts talking to Benjamin about their match, but addresses the current state of ECW first.

“Over the last few months the ECW title has been overlooked and instead of complain about it, I’m gonna do something about it.”

At that moment Christian looked up towards the ceiling and said they’ll be one Chairs match (wtf?), one Tables match (Cena vs. Sheamus), one TLC match (DX vs. JeriShow) and one ladder match.

“Are you challenging me to a ladder match? Are you out of your mind?”

What is funny is that Benjamin has never won any type of ladder match, though he is fantastic in them.

“At TLC I want to steal the show…and I want you to steal it with me.”

THANK GOD VINCE, they’ll do it.

“Well you just found yourself a partner in crime”

Everyone get ready to eat your damn hearts out, every Benjamin fan came to the arena that night (except for me) and cheered his name until their voices came out. The big boys are finally listening, Christmas came early in the form of Shelton Benjamin and Sheamus, two fresh faces to the title scenes.

Seven years of waiting…seven years baby!

A Hard(y) Return: Matt Hardy was the guest host on the Abraham Washington show this week. Notice how Abe went from only having ECW stars to SD stars, RAW will be next. Washington is golden folks, don’t forget. Matt Hardy had nothing going on storyline wise and his visit in the land of extreme finally made sense when he and Abe began plugging his appearance on Scare Tactics on SyFy.

The episode with Hardy will air next week before ECW comes on. Washington proved why he’ll be one of the top talkers in the WWE in the future. The man can just work with anything, he can say any line and it’ll be THAT good, though they’re complete crap 99 percent of the time.

Before Hardy came out Abe discussed the Twilight Saga and it’s recent New Moon movie. He talked about wolves then he did his usual attack pouncing at the crowd verbally.

“As I look down at everyone in this arena, everyone looks like a dog! That’s right ya’ll want a milk bone? A Scooby Snack?!”

“When I found out you were on my show I was disappointed, I wish it was Jeff Hardy.”

“I ain’t scared! Abraham Washington ain’t scared, I roll up in there like this!”

Abe brought it this week, but his last outing in England gave us better punchlines. Abe’s streak of Lines of the Week appears to be coming to an end…maybe.

Eyes That Can Kill: It finally begins to make sense why Paul Burchill was removed from ECW, Vance Archer has replaced him. Archer’s cold stare completely diminishes any thought of The Ripper’s  sadistic stare. He can easily be Hurricane’s next arch nemesis, but I have a feeling he’ll work with Goldust or Dreamer first. Another squash match claims another poor jobber’s soul and I’m really liking that tilt-a-whirl faceplant Archer keeps doing.

Fuss At The Table: It looks like the once powerful Ruthless Roundtable will be no more, after Ezekiel Jackson hits his uranage finisher on Kozlov for blaming Regal’s loss on him. Zeke followed up by hitting his finisher on Regal, who was stunned after seeing Kozlov get taken out and tried to calm down the Matt Striker dubbed “Beastmaster.”

Who’ll pass the stuffing on Thanksgiving? There’s disdain all (a)round the table.

Edge of The Nickel

Where’s Hurricane? Regal vs. Yoshi could have been better.

Tails

Nothing, great show.

Quick Hits

Shelton Benjamin Def. Zack Ryder w/ Rosa Mendes Match Rating – 4.0 out of 5.0 (Crowd was on fire)

Vance Archer Def. Local Jobber Match Rating 1.5 out of 5 stars (titl-a-whirl faceplant earns Archer .5)

Yoshi Tatsu Def. William Regal Match Rating – 2.0 stars out of 5

Line(s) Of The Night:

“Over the last few months the ECW title has been overlooked and instead of complain about it, I’m gonna do something about it.” – Christian to Shelton Benjamin as he looks up towards the ceiling about to challenge him to a ladder match at TLC for the ECW title.

“At TLC I want to steal the show…and I want you to steal it with me.” – Christian to Shelton Benjamin.

“When I found out you were on my show I was disappointed, I wish it was Jeff Hardy.” -Abraham Washington to Matt Hardy

“I ain’t scared! Abraham Washington ain’t scared, I roll up in there like this!” – Abraham Washington to Matt Hardy while making hand gestures.

“As I look down at everyone in this arena, everyone looks like a dog! That’s right ya’ll want a milk bone? A Scooby Snack?!” - Abraham Washington to crowd.

“Are you challenging me to a ladder match? Are you out of your mind?” - Shelton Benjamin to Christian

Extreme Eight

1. Shelton Benjamin [High jumper] (Hot crowd behind him and earned No. 1 contendership for ECW title)

2. Christian

3. Ezekiel Jackson (Face turn?)

4. Abraham Washington [Heat Magnet] (Crappy lines with great execution = success)

5. Yoshi Tatsu

6. Hurricane

7. William Regal [Dropping] (Fading from ECW title picture and Big Zeke is against him now)

8. Vance Archer