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Evan Bourne pinned Tyson Kidd (with Natalya Neidhart) with a Shooting Star Press in a fantastic opening match.

Josh Matthews interviewed “All-American American” Jack Swagger mid-ring who ran down Tommy Dreamer. Dreamer hits the ring to attack Swagger who runs off.

Backstage, ECW GM Tiffany welcomes Zack Ryder to ECW, who is with a fresh new haircut and look. She books Ryder against Finlay for Superstars on Thursday.

Vladimir Kozlov pinned local talent Jesse Gullmette.

Backstage, Gregory Helms interviewed Mark Henry & Tony Atlas about Henry’s main event match with Christian.

ECW Champion Christian versus Mark Henry (with Tony Atlas) ended in a no-contest when both Swagger and Dreamer interfered. Tiffany then came out and booked a tag team match between the four men.

Jack Swagger & Mark Henry beat Christian & Tommy Dreamer when Swagger pinned Dreamer.

RAW General Manager Vickie Guerrero opened the show and introduced new WWE Champion Randy Orton and “Priceless” – Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase, Jr. Vickie books The Big Show versus Batista in a number one contender’s match for tonight, with the winner challenging Orton for the Title at Judgment Day. Orton came out to gloat about his victory but was interrupted by WWE United States Champion MVP. It ends up with MVP versus Orton in a non-title match being booked for tonight.

Kofi Kingston beat The Brian Kendrick in about as good of match as you can have in three minutes. I am actually surprised Kendrick even made TV as I feared he would be released.

“Santina” Marella, Mickie James, Kelly Kelly & Nikki Bella beat WWE Divas Champion Maryse, Jillian Hall, Beth Phoenix & Rosa Mendes when “Santina” pinned Jillian. After the match Hornswoggle pops up underneath the ring with Nikki’s twin Brie. Hornswoggle looks up sees “Santina’s” bulge and hilarity ensues.

Matt Hardy beat Goldust with a shot from his arm cast.

MVP versus Randy Orton went to a no-contest when Shane McMahon interfered and attacked Orton.

The Miz comes out to cut the most phenomenal promo of his career. He namedrops the celebrities he has in his phone and then challenges John Cena to a match right now. Not surprisingly Cena doesn’t show and Miz declares himself the winner via forfeit. Fantastic segment that makes Miz look like a star right out of the gate.

WWE Unified Tag Team Champions Carlito & Primo Colon beat Jaime Noble & Chavo Guerrero when Carlito pinned Noble.

Batista beat The Big Show by count out when John Cena arrived and distracted Big Show.

Great show that highlighted some of RAW’s new Draft pickups and made them look like stars right out of the gate, especially MVP and Miz.

Finlay and Hornswoggle opened ECW with Finlay announcing that Hornswoggle has been drafted to RAW and this will be the pair’s last night together on ECW. Hornswoggle says he wants to wrestle tonight on his last night on ECW. Tyson Kidd & Natalya Neidhart interrupt the proceedings and Natalya says she will wrestle the little guy tonight.

Hornswoggle pinned Natalya Neidhart. After the match, Finlay and Hornswoggle celebrate their victory and their last night together on ECW. Complete waste of two segments.

Backstage, ECW Interim-GM Tiffany books Kidd & Natalya in a match with Finlay & Hornswoggle for Superstars.

Evan Bourne pinned Paul Burchill in another phenomenal ECW free TV match. Probably Burchill’s best match on WWE TV so far.

Vladimir Kozlov pinned local guy Frankie Sloan.

Christian and ECW Champion “All-American American” Jack Swagger have their contract signing for their ECW Title match at Backlash. Not surprisingly it ends like most contract signings do as Swagger ended up putting Christian through the contract table with a gutwrench powerbomb.

John Morrison pinned Evan Bourne. This was an absolutely fantastic fifteen minute opening match that continued to show why ECW is the best wrestling show on television for letting young stars go out and put on entertaining honest-to-goodness wrestling matches.

Vladimir Kozlov pinned local talent David Florea.

Backstage Paul & Katie Lea Burchill talk to ECW General Manager Tiffany about getting split up in the upcoming supplemental Draft. ECW Champion Jack Swagger then shows up and thinks Thursday’s debut of Superstars should have a Q & A with Swagger. Instead Tiffany books the finals of the Elimination Chase for Superstars.

Finlay beat Christian & Tommy Dreamer in a triple threat match as part of the Elimination Chase when he pinned Dreamer. As a result Dreamer is eliminated from the Chase and Finlay will battle Christian one-on-one on Superstars, with the winner challenging Jack Swagger at Backlash.

ECW opened with General Manager Theodore Long revealing that he will be moving back to SmackDown as that brand’s General Manager. He then announces that his old assistant Tiffany will now be ECW’s interim-GM. ECW Champion Jack Swagger arrives and sarcastically congratulates Tiffany on her promotion. She then makes an Elimination Chase between Christian, Finlay, Tommy Dreamer and Mark Henry for an ECW Title match at Backlash. The Chase starts tonight in a four way between the announced men.

Evan Bourne & The WWE Unified Tag Team Champions Carlito & Primo Colon beat Tyson Kidd, John Morrison & The Miz when Bourne pinned Kidd with a shooting star press. The match was absolutely amazing is another early forerunner for free TV match of the year.

Finlay won the four way match over Tommy Dreamer, Christian & Mark Henry when he pinned Henry. As a result Henry is eliminated from the Elimination Chase.

ECW was really light on the in-ring action this week considering it is WrestleMania week and all three shows (RAW, ECW and SmackDown) were taped on the same night in Dallas.

Mark Henry and Kane beat Christian and Finlay when Henry pinned Christian. After the match Henry punched out Kane just for the fun of it.

A video package of the Undertaker-Shawn Michaels rivalry airs next.

Then it was a video package for the John Cena-Big Show-Edge World Championship triple threat match.

The third segment in a row highlighted a look back at WrestleMania 23.

The fourth video package showed all the goodness behind the Triple H-Randy Orton WWE Title rivalry.

In the second (and final) match of the evening, Nikki Bella (with World Tag Team Champions The Miz & John Morrison) beat her twin sister Brie Bella (with WWE Tag Team Champions Carlito & Primo Colon).

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ECW opened with WWE Tag Team Champion Carlito (with Primo and Brie Bella) taking on World Tag Team Champion John Morrison (with The Miz and Nikki Bella). When Morrison and company left the ring to take a count out loss, ECW General Manager Teddy Long interrupted and said the Unified World Tag Team Title match at WrestleMania XXV would now be a lumberjack match. He then called the lumberjacks (pretty much any male wrestler not booked in a match at WrestleMania) to surround the ring. Carlito and Morrison finished the match that saw Carly win with a backstabber.

Evan Bourne & Tommy Dreamer beat Tyson Kidd & ECW Champion Jack Swagger when Bourne pinned Kidd. Bourne continues to look like a superstar in every appearance and gets treated like one by the live crowds.

The show ended with WWE United States Champion Montel Vontavious Porter hosting a VIP Lounge for the other Money in the Bank participants including CM Punk, Shelton Benjamin, Finlay, Christian, Kofi Kingston, Mark Henry & Kane. Kane got the last word by lighting the ring posts ablaze after everyone else had said their piece.

Another great show that effectively built up WrestleMania.

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ECW opens with the Irishmen Finlay and Hornswoggle celebrating on St. Patrick’s Day. This is ECW, the best one-hour wrestling program produced in a long time.

WWE United States Champion Shelton Benjamin and Mark Henry beat Christian and MVP when Benjamin pinned Christian.

Evan Bourne pinned Jaime Noble in his return match. Bourne didn’t look like he lost a step in his absence and it was great to see him back in action.

ECW Champion “All-American American” Jack Swagger came out remind everyone that he is still the ECW Champion.

Finlay pinned Paul Burchill.

The show ended with World Tag Team Champions The Miz & John Morrison hosting “The Dirt Sheet,” alongside with Nikki & Brie Bella. WWE Tag Team Champions Carlito & Primo Colon came for a rebuttal and ended up with The Colons challenging Miz & Morrison to a Tag Title unification match at WrestleMania XXV. Carlito then goes to spit apple in Morrison’s face but he ducks and it hits Nikki Bella. The twins then get into a catfight, and Nikki leaves with Miz and Morrison while Brie stays with The Colons.

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Tonight’s ECW was taped from Jacksonville and was a pretty good show as the build to WrestleMania continued.

WWE Tag Team Champion Primo Colon (accompanied by Carlito Colon and The Bella Twins) beat World Tag Team Champion The Miz (accompanied by John Morrison).

Tyson Kidd (with Natalya Neidhart) pinned DJ Gabriel (with Alicia Fox).

Evan Bourne is returning next week! Sweet! About time…

Christian won a sixteen-man battle royal to earn a spot in Money in the Bank at WrestleMania XXV. Other participants included Cryme Tyme (Shad & JTG), Vladimir Kozlov, The Great Khali, William Regal, Paul Burchill, Jimmy Wang Yang, Kung Fu Naki, Chavo Guerrero, Charlie Haas, Dolph Ziggler, Goldust, Ricky Ortiz, Tommy Dreamer and R-Truth.
Order of elimination: Khali eliminates Ortiz, Kozlov eliminates Fu Naki, Khali eliminates Kozlov, a bunch of guys team up to eliminate Khali, Yang and Goldust are eliminated by Ziggler, Ziggler and Haas are eliminated by Cryme Tyme, Burchill is eliminated by Cryme Tyme, JTG eliminates Shad, R-Truth eliminates JTG, Regal eliminates Dreamer, Christian eliminates R-Truh, Christian eliminates Regal, Christian eliminates Guerrero to win the match.

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Here’s the fall out from tonight’s ECW broadcast, taped in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kane pinned The Boogeyman.

Mark Henry (accompanied by Tony Atlas) pinned Santino Marella (accompanied by Beth Phoenix and Rosa Mendes) to advance to the Money in the Bank match at WrestleMania XXV.

Natalya Neidhart (accompanied by Tyson Kidd) pinned Alicia Fox (accompanied by DJ Gabriel.) After the match Kidd attacked Gabriel.

ECW Champion Jack Swagger and World Tag Team Champions John Morrison & The Miz beat Christian, Finlay and Tommy Dreamer when Swagger pinned Christina.

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