Welcome to the first edition of WWE DotCom Delivery, a weekly recap of all the original shows on WWE.com (video schedule). From the Casa to the Palace of Wisdom, you’ll find it here.
With Todd Grisham being the latest non-styles announcer to call ECW on Sci-Fi, OMG Moment of Week takes us back to the days where ECW was still Extreme Championship Wrestling. I was never an ECW fanboy, so pardon me if I don’t goo all wet in the pants for these clips, but this week’s show gives us something pretty cool. It’s 9.20.97 and ECW presented As Good as it Gets. The latest person to throw Spike Dudley around was Bam Bam Bigelow. After Bigelow suplexed Dudley on a steel chair, he goes for one of the coolest things ever, which I must admit – could have only worked in ECW back then. Bigelow tosses Spike, off the top rope, over the security railings, straight onto the ECW crowd who catches Spike and carries him over their heads, in a Jesus-like manner. It was extremely cool to watch and even today, the OHMYGOD is justified.
And from Philly WWE takes us to the hood in Brooklyn with Cryme Tyme’s Word Up. The word of the weeks is CHEDDAH, meaning lots and lots of money or just cash money (Other appropriate terms would be Benjamins, Bank, Dough, Gwap, Lettuce and Paper). So remember that. Still, I think Darril teaching Michael Scott “black man phrases” on The Office is funnier than Word Up.
Matt Striker’s Best WWEek, Worst WWEek is rather dull this week. He started with a recap of Vickie Guerrero’s announcement from the end of last week’s SmackDown, concluding that Vickie had the best week and Edge the worst week. They added some cheap Undertaker effects to make Matt wet his pants. Duh. He then moved on to list baseball player and add WWE references to their names, liked Elston “Howard” Finkel, George Brett “The Hitman” Hart and others. That segment was just lame. At least Steve Lombardi showed up at the end to save the show. It’s weird, Striker is usually good on the microphone, but this show just isn’t working.
But here’s something who knows what he’s doing on the web. Santino Marrela welcomes us to Santino’s Casa, which was a bit shorter than usual this week. Santino is downbeat, as Beth Phoenix confused his insides. There’s a conflict between his survival instinct and his loins. I know that for me the loins usually win. After this touching confession, Santino moves to his Holywood roundup, with his views on The Bachelor and The Two Coreys. I guess we can blame Santino’s emotional rollercoaster for the shortness on this week’s show, but he promises to feel better next week. I’ll be pulling for him.
The highlight of the week is always The Dirt Sheet. By the way, on the preview video Miz & Morrison are still the WWE tag team champions. I’m jealous. At least on the show itself they have a new parting line, and I’m still jealous. This week they call Stevie Richards from the Palace of Wisdom to give him some news about his career and then they welcome a new talent to ECW, Evan Bourne. Not only does Bourne defy gravity, he also defies charisma. He too should be jealous of Miz & Morrison. If you only watch one WWE web show, make it The Dirt Sheet.
And the WWE online week is capped off with Josh Mathews’ Weekly Top Five. This week we got highlights from The Great Khali’s match with Jeff Hardy, William Regal’s return against CM Punk and Matt Hardy’s decimation of Colin Delaney. I have reservations about the top 2 spots, though. This week’s Cutting Edge with Mick Foley got the number 2 spot, while I consider it the best segment on all 3 WWE shows this week. But I can live witrh it being only number 2. In the first place they have the finish of this week’s Raw main event, when Cena & Batista beat JBL & Kane. But they made no mention of the events that followed the match – Mike Adamle’s appointment for RAW GM and his announcement that John Cena and Batista would face each other at SummerSlam. This piece of news is bigger than the match, yet gets no mention at all? To this I must say WTF (No pun intended)?!
So this was WWE’s online week. Santino’s Casa and The Dirt Sheet continue to rule and with the little potshots thrown between those two shows I wouldn’t be surprised if they made some sort of crossover soon. I’ll be back next week with more of DotCom’s shows.
[...] Last Week’s Episode… Raffi does a great job of recapping WWE’s weekly online [...]