The 176 Show Episode 15 - Plus ECW Beta Week 27/2/09

HELLO and welcome to the longest running weekly show here at Fourdown! Tonight I have a good night in store for you as we have the fall out from Elimination Chamber on ECW Beta, my review of the first ever WWE NXT, who else I think will be released from WWE over the next few months and some more hype for the final showdown between Europe's Elite and Fourdown owner Cletus420!

I think that I will kick things off with this weeks ECW beta, enjoy:


Result from the ECW Title Match at Elimination Chamber - Christian beat Vladamir Kozlov in 9:31 after Christian hit the KillSwitch for the win.


Event 1: Highlight package from Elimination Chamber

Event 2: The new ECW champion Christian comes out to the ring with his title belt. He says that at EC he proved that he is the best wrestler to ever set foot in the ring. He takes pride in the fact that he has put Tommy Dreamer on the shelf and he is now the ECW champion. Kozlov comes out to the ring and says that he wants his rematch right here tonight.

Match 1: Tag Team match
ECW Tag Team Champs Trent and Caylon vs Goldust and The Hurricane
Result - Goldust and The Hurricane in 7:41, after the match Gold/Hurricane declare that next week they shall recieve a ECW Tag Title match.

Event 3: Vincent Kennedy McMahon comes out to the ring, he says that starting the week after Wrestlemania ECW will be no more. He says that it will be replaced by a new concept called WWE NXT. He then announces the 8 NXT rookies that will be coming to the show:

Michael Tarver
David Otunga
Justin Angel
Brett Dibiase
Kaval
Daniel Bryan
Alex Riley
Wade Barrett

He then says that next week he will anounce the pros to be paired with them.


Match 2: Submission Match
Vance Archer vs Johnny Curtis
Result - Johnny Curtis makes Vance tap at 12:42 when he locks in a figure four leg lock around a steel chair.

Match 3: ECW Title Match
Christian vs Vladamir Kozlov
Result - Christian beats Kozlov in 13:31 to retain the title.


Ok next up is my review of the first ever WWE NXT:

Well, sports-fans, the newest addition to the WWE television, NXT, was quite an entertaining ride. Although I had thought it was going to be more leaning towards a reality show instead of an actual WWE Live event, it had its amazing moments. Its basis was 8 rookie wrestlers being mentored by experienced pros to earn their spots in the WWE with the ones gaining most mentor experience claiming a place among the other Superstars.

Heath Slater: He is the "Rockstar without an instrument." It was easy to tell he was excited to be in the WWE. A VERY charismatic wrestler, Slater even gained a crowd reaction with his actions and gaining a crowd "Woo" when he yelled it. He was, however, a little rushed. He seemed to, in my wordage, to "flop" his feet back to the mat after giving a flying forearm to Michael Tarver. And his springboard out of the corner was a little rough and timed oddly by both Slater and Tarver.

Michael Tarver: He's the son of Mike Tyson's sparring partner. So he went with the Boxer gimmick. It's a gimmick we don't see a lot of. Last time I saw something similar was an MMA gimmick. His punches to the chest looked a little weak. But what he lacked in solid attack appearance, I believe he made up for in selling getting hit. Especially when he took the Killswitch and appeared to bounce his head clear off the mat up to where you could see his pain-ridden face. In my notes on the program I wrote, "Nice head bounce." Hehe.

David Otunga: The Hollywood man. His introduction vignette showed him to be very excited and charismatic about being in the WWE, along with being a man who has a lot of celebrity contacts in his phone, but when he came to the ring he had a zipped up jacket with its hood up and glasses on. His appearance went from "Fame and Fortune" to "The Unabomber." But when he removed his jacket and glasses he had stars shaved into his hair. His match was a bit lack-luster. It was a very quick match with Darrin Young that ended in a very inexperienced (almost botch-like) slam. He needs to work on executing his move, especially if its meant to be such a powerful, match-ending slam.

Darrin Young: This. Man. Looks. Awesome. He was bouncing around, overflowing with attention-grabbing charisma. And his hair was everywhere! His style seems extremely creative and easily recognizable. If we see him go on to be a superstar and a main event-er, he'll definitely be a man you can show a picture of to someone and they'll recognize him. Heck, just show them his hair! He really did play well off his mentor, C.M. Punk. Young was all happy and excited and Punk was... well, Punk. And Young lost a bit of happiness when he couldn't get Punk to join his cheerfulness.

Wade Barrett: With greasy, slicked back hair, suit jacket with flower pinned to it, and whatever he was doing with his lips... you'd think he was sent from the mafia to NXT for a hit on someone. His gimmick is a bare-knuckled brawler from England, and let me tell you, its definitely in his accent. At first, I didn't think I was going to understand what he was saying due to how HEAVY his accent actually is! But other than attract our attention with his greasy looks, he didn't do much on the first episode of NXT but compliment Chris Jericho, who yelled at him for not simply introducing Jericho like he asked. When interviewed during Jericho's match, Barrett STILL continued to talk about how great Chris Jericho is.

Saved best for last, Daniel Bryan: Yes, yes, we ALL KNOW (well, not all, Michael Cole claimed he'd never heard of him) that he's Bryan Danielson, just with his name reversed. From nearly the moment he was introduced to the WWE, he was feuding with his mentor, The Miz. The Miz had him enter the ring, introduce himself, come up with a catchphrase, etc. But he spent the time apologizing to his fans for being paired with The Miz. The Miz slapped him for his "disrespect." Bryan, to me at least, appeared to need a bit of work on his facial expressions while on the mic. He kind of laughed a bit out of nervousness and he really didn't get as big of a pop, or as much crowd reaction, as I had expected from someone so popular within Ring Of Honor.

The other two rookies, Justin Gabriel and Skip Sheffield, will appear on next week's NXT on Syfy.

The Highlight of the evening, the main event, was Daniel Bryan vs. Chris Jericho. And WOW, what a match! Bryan cut off The Miz and lightly shoved him away on his way to the ring. There, as a show of sportsmanship, he offered his hand to Jericho, who, of course, slapped it away. And then taunted Bryan by continually shoving him back, until Bryan unleashed on Jericho. One thing I did notice, though, was the weird referee intervention. Of course, in the corner, they have to push the attacking wrestler back. This ref just actually crouched in between the two fighting wrestlers. But after that little malfunction, Bryan did some nice slides between Jericho's legs and a nice step-up and backflip off the top rope, but he did take down Jericho by grabbing Jericho's leg and pulling (like the popular move in the WWE video games) and it was very odd and from the way Jericho bumped, it looked more like he just simply tripped him and Bryan for some reason, while sitting, bumped backwards and popped back up when he got kicked in the back of the head. Wouldnt you usually fly forwards or lean forwards then fall back and lay there? He made up for it when he went for a suicide dive to Jericho on the outside of the ring, and Jericho slightly countered... by somewhat catching Bryan and slamming his side into the announce table! Ouch! Oh, the bruise it left on him. That's when his expression-less face turned to pure anguish then intent on pushing forward in the match like he wanted to tear apart Jericho. Chris went for the Walls of Jericho, but Bryan countered it to his own submission, wrapping around and bending Jericho's leg over his own and pushing down on it. Jericho grabbed the ropes. The match ended when Chris Jericho was able to put Bryan in the Walls, but he placed his knee on the back of Daniel Bryan's head in the old Liontamer submission. Followed by Miz attacking his rookie, busting him in the bead on the mat, yelling "Huh!? You embarrass me!?"

All in all, it was a fairly good show. Great addition to WWE Television. And I can not wait to see what happens next week!


Next up I shall say who I think will be released in the WWE over the next few months:


I am doing this following the release of four WWE staff members, Scott Armstrong, Maria, Paul Burchill and Gregory Helms. I didn't really find Helms' release as much of a surprise after the incident a few weeks ago, but Maria and Armstrong really came as a shock after Maria is going on Celeb Apprentice and won Diva of the year and Armstrong was a really good ref who was liked backstage.

Here is the list of people I feel will be released:

Abraham Washington
Curt Hawkins
Charlie Hass
I have a feeling we might see the last of Santino, although I would not want that to happen.
Kung Fu Naki
Slam Master J


There will probably be other but for now that is all I can think of.




Last up is some more hype for the final showdown between Europe's Elite and Cletus420:


You see it has been a long road going to WRestlemania 26 for Europes ELite. HBK4Ever had his shot to beat Cletus at teh Royal RUmble and lost, Kaihtafc had his shot at Elimination Chamber... And lost. Now that leaves it to me, the leader of Europe's ELite to topple the owner of Fourdown at the grandest stage of them all! I have beaten Cletus twice before and at WM 26 I am going to take the title as greatest user ever here at Fourdown by beating you Cletus for the THRID time.

If you wish to join Europe's Elite and help the invasion, simply follow this link:
http://www.fourdown.org/leagues/europe

Well that is it, I really hope you enjoyed this episode of The 176 Show.
Tune in next week for the next installment of the 176 Show!