Dismembered in the Chamber

[Mrs Fizz Allmendinger]

At an ECW show today in Milwaukee, Wis., ECW’s “Messiah” Paul Heyman declared that Rob Van Dam will, in fact, receive his ECW World Title opportunity at December to Dismember. However, Heyman also made the monumental announcement that RVD’s title match will take place in the first-ever Extreme Elimination Chamber.

RVD earned his chance at the championship last week in a Ladder Match and, as announced on ECW.com earlier this week, Van Dam selected ECW’s next pay-per-view on Dec. 3 as the setting for his title opportunity. However, the stipulations for that contest fall under Heyman’s own judgment.

Thus, ECW World Champion Big Show will defend his gold against five other Extremists within the lethal chamber structure. In addition to the Extreme Giant and RVD, the remaining four participants will be determined through a series of qualifying matches that will take place over the next few weeks – the first of which can be seen Tuesday night on ECW on Sci Fi.

The only thing more dangerous than the chamber itself will be the throng of hardcore competitors enclosed in its massive walls. Who will qualify for this unprecedented encounter? Exactly what awaits RVD, Big Show and the other Extremists at December to Dismember?

Tune in to ECW on Sci Fi to learn more about this unique and extreme event and be sure to catch December to Dismember on Dec. 3 on pay-per-view.

from wwe.com.

[Stare]

They have to do something to get people to buy it. Should be a good match depending on who is involved.

I would assume it will be Big Show vs. RVD vs. Sabu vs. Test vs. Hardcore Holly vs. Dreamer

[Aladdin]

^That's what i would have gone for, but apparently CM Punk is in it too!

As much as I love Punk and think he's the best talent in ECW by a mile, its kinda early to be placing him in the main event.


The ECW PPV card will end up being very thin, with six guys in one match. The chamber will end up being the only match that gets enough build.

[Stare]

Didn't know Punk would be in it, and I think that's a huge mistake. I've said it countless times, and the most recent is the Samoe Joe thing. You do not take your brand's fastest rising star and throw him at the title if he's not going to win it, because you ruin the significance of him getting a shot later on, and it ruins the fan's anticipation.

I would've made the card like this

Chamber Match for ECW Title
Big Show vs. RVD vs. Sabu vs. Holly vs. Test vs. Dreamer

Winner gets Kelly's managerial services
CM Punk vs. Mike Knox

The Sandman vs. Matt Striker

Kevin Thorn vs. Balls Mahoney


I dont know of any other feuds that they have going. They're really going to have to dig deep and start feuding some of the lower guys.

[Scream]

You know I invented this match a year ago somewhere in this thread!!! I should get the credit. ME, ME, ME!!

[Trent Matsunoshin]

Bobby Lashley's in ECW??

[brockandsable]

Where've you been, negro?

[Keith Williams]

Whatever Vince and company are smoking up there in Connecticut, I want some( E2 proberly is sneaking up there and selling them his stash). Scheduling December to Dismember a week after Survivor series has to be the dumbest move ever. People are not going to run out and purchase this ppv when they may have spent their ppv money last week on Survivor Series.

Plus this card is lacking serious build-up. I mean going into this week they only had one match announced, that being the Extreme Elimination Chamber. Now they are scrambling to find matches to fill up the rest of the card. Shoot they had to bring over the Hardys and a for one night only, reformed MNM to help shape the card up.

They needed to drop the Smackdown ppv this month and put the ECW one in its place. Vince should have the ppvs now rotate between the 3 brands like he does with RAW and Smackdown.

[stocko]

well this sucked big time!

only team extreme v MNM was any good imo

[Simz]

Yeah, once again the WWE fucks up a PPV. Every day TNA gets better and better due to the WWE's poor form.

[Aladdin]

Not really. Both of them just keep getting shittier and shittier.

ROH and NOAH is where it's at people.

[Faster Pussycat!]

Dragon Gate

[Your Morality Enforcer]

I think it was pretty obvious Vince actually wanted this to fail guys. Think about it: If ECW fails the first PPV, he can say because the audience don't view it in equal stead with WWE programming, so he can justify more trades and more of his crap writers until ECW just becomes "WWE Extreme" or something. There is no way the experienced heads in the WWE would seriously book that the way they did and expect to make money.

-Why was Punk in the chamber if he was only going to be eliminated first- Why not face Mike Knox?
-Why kill any prestige the ECW Title had by handing it to Lashley simply because they obviously don't trust him with an actual World title?
-Why remove Sabu, whatever the issues, when he was the guy people wanted to see in there?
-Why make the only other match announced involve a team that has never truly been on ECW vs. a "legendary" team that made its mark in WWE?
-Why did they announce two matches and make four up?
-Why wasn't Sandman booked?
-Why bother with ECW if the only thing it has produced is CM Punk, and the screw-up of him begins now?

[Reaper]

Sandman was booked... against Holly, but then they fucked Sabu over and threw Holly in the Chamber and had sandman save Kelly from the vampire pair. Overall, from what I've read of this show, its got to the WORST PPV ever created. And as such, Heyman is basically out of the equation now, and Big Show is taking time off.

ECW...if you want to even call it that, is done and dead. Theres really no way to rebound from the travesty that was last nights PPV. Not even reverting ECW back to its original design could help it at this point.

[brockandsable]

micko69 said:

well this sucked big time!

only team extreme v MNM was any good imo

Because we got a good Melina crotch shot this time.

[Aladdin]

Not really.


And I'm PISSED OFF that Punk got eliminated first. How fucking stupid. Perfect time to really get him over big and he gets eliminated first without showing what he can really do. He should have started off and been the second last eliminated.

[brockandsable]

Not really.


Edge was eliminated first in the 2005 Elimination Chamber and then went on to be one of the most dominating transitional champions of all time. That's something, right? ;D

[Aladdin]

Yeah, but Edge was already a solid upper mid-carder and the fans knew he would be a big deal. He wasn't going anywhere. Plus his elimination was done in such away that he was protected, as HBK (who was the ref) superkicked him.

Punk on the other hand is still in the stages where he can either big huge or he can bomb. The former is more likely, but the latter is still a possibility. Having RVD of all people go over him clean, just makes Punk look normal. Like, he could be beaten. If they had Holly and Test double team Punk and eliminate him, then Punk would have looked stronger.

[Mrs Fizz Allmendinger]

I think the ppv sucked cause it was too short.

[Reaper]

I think the PPV Sucked, because it was a bunch of shit matches. The chamber sucked, the filler sucked and the opener just set people up for good things only for the later events to suck monkey balls. And then in typical fashion, when Vinny Mac noticed how shitty it really was, he blamed Heyman... but all of Heymans original plans were re-written and heavily edited down by Steph, Michael Hayes, and Vince himself.

Vince fucked the show up and then took it out on Heyman. How fucking classy.