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Jack Swagger takes on Finlay in non title action, tonight on ECW!  What?  I’m half asleep and don’t feel like coming up with anything more clever than that, dammit!

ECW review, after the jump!Hey, when did that show “Lost” start airing before ECW?  I still haven’t seen that, but I hear good things.  I also hear you have to watch it from the beginning or you won’t know what the hell is going on.

Last week, Hornswoggle stole Jack Swagger’s ECW Championship.  Finlay then hit Swagger in the head with it.  If you only rely on BoredWrestlingFan for ECW coverage, you didn’t know that until just now, since I completely ignored last week’s show.  Yeah, sorry about that.

The ECW theme plays, and Todd Grisham welcomes us to St. Louis and tells us that Finlay is taking on Jack Swagger tonight.

Paul Burchill makes his way to the ring with his sister Katie Lea.  His opponent tonight is the Innovator of Violence, Tommy Dreamer.

Paul Burchill def. Tommy Dreamer

Dreamer hit most of his usual spots, but Burchill reversed the DDT, sending Tommy face first into the turnbuckle, then gets out of the Dreamer Driver with an elbow to the head before dropping Tommy with a neckbreaker for the victory

Teddy Long runs into Jamie Noble backstage.  Noble tells him he’s here to save the show.  Matt Hardy moved to SmackDown, and ECW needs a quality Superstar to take his place.  Since Noble’s the big star over on RAW, he thought he’d come over to ECW, because Jamie Noble equals Ratings (ooh, take that, RD Lee!).  Teddy Long says he’ll take him up on that offer.

Todd Grisham says that he thought Matt Striker equaled ratings (damn, RD – you should sue for gimmick infringement!), and John Morrison’s music hits.  The Slammy Award winning World Tag Team Champions, The Miz and John Morrison, make their way to the ring, where Tommy Dreamer is still hanging out for some reason.  What do the 2008 Tag Team of the Year want?  We’ll find out, NEXT!

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Morrison tells Dreamer that he’s so slow that he can’t even get out of the ring in time for the next segment, and makes fun of his weight.  Miz makes fun of him for whining all the time, and then the champs call him a whale.  They wonder if he really thinks he has what it takes to be ECW Champion again.  It’s 2009, Champions don’t look like him, they look like The Miz and Morrison.  Miz calls Dreamer the anti-Ric Flair.  The people didn’t want Flair to retire, but they all hope Dreamer’s next match is his last.  So why doesn’t he go home and wait for the call from the WWE Hall of Fame, which will never happen.  The only people who want to see Dreamer less than this audience are his wife and kids.  This prompts Dreamer to attack The Miz, but the Greatest Tag Team of the 21st Century is too much for him to handle on his own, and he gets laid out with a Reality Check from The Miz.

Still to come, Jack Swagger takes on Finlay.

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Jamie Noble is in the ring when we come back, and I’m thinking he may be regretting his decision to come over to ECW – his opponent is The Boogeyman.  Say what you will about The Boogeyman, I still like his entrance.

The Boogeyman def. Jamie Noble

Noble doesn’t quite know what to make of The Boogeyman, but he doesn’t really seem intimidated.  Noble goes straight after The Boogeyman, but the man from The Bottomless Pit takes control. In a back and forth matchup, Noble makes The Boogeyman look like a million bucks in the ring, but in the end, it’s The Boogeyman picking up the win with a Pumphandle Slam.

Noble escapes before Boogeyman can feed him worms birdie style.

Finlay is warming up backstage.

WrestleMania Moment: WrestleMania 2 package that aired last night on RAW.

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RAW Rewind: Legacy attacked Shane McMahon.

Rundown of the No Way Out card.

What does Jack Swagger think about his match tonight?  He doesn’t need inspiration from being attacked last week in his match tonight.  He’s going to prove to Finlay that stealing the belt last week is the closest he’ll ever get to Swagger’s ECW Championship.

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We’re only 61 days away from WrestleMania!

The ECW Champion, Jack Swagger is out first for tonight’s main event. Finlay comes out with Hornswoggle, who dives under the ring before Finlay climbs into the ring.

Finlay def. Jack Swagger

Through the commercial break, at least, we’ve got a pretty decent wrestling match going on here.  Of course, when we come back, Finlay is using strikes and clotheslines to take down Swagger.  Swagger is no slouch when it comes to that stuff either, he gets a few strikes in of his own.  Still, it’s an old fashioned pro wrestling match, which is something we don’t see very often.  Well, it is until Hornswoggle distracts Swagger and allows Finlay to hit an atomic drop.  Swagger turns the tide on the outside of the ring and tosses the shillelagh all the way up the ramp.  Hornswoggle had a second one and whacked Swagger in the ankle with it, allowing Finlay to hit the Celtic Cross and end Swagger’s undefeated streak!

Finlay and Hornswoggle celebrate in the ring as we go off the air.

My Thoughts: Why?  Why give the title to Swagger if you’re just going to job him out as champion?  He’d never been on the losing end of a match until he won the ECW Championship.  Now he’s been pinned in a tag team match on SmackDown and tonight in a singles match against Finlay.  Sure, Finlay cheated, but still.  Also, why ruin a perfectly good wrestling match because you need to get the damned leprechaun involved in it?  Oh well, at least DJ Gabriel wasn’t on tonight.

Be sure to come back around noon tomorrow for the first in a series of articles about WWE Pay Per Views.

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