ECW One Night Stand 2006
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| Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | ||
| Brand(s) | Extreme Championship Wrestling | ||
| Date | June 11, 2006 | ||
| City | New York City, New York | ||
| Venue | Hammerstein Ballroom | ||
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ECW One Night Stand 2006 is a pay-per-view event promoted by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place at the Hammerstein Ballroom on June 11, 2006. This event featured former wrestlers from the defunct Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion, whose holdings WWE purchased in bankruptcy court. The event was announced by Paul Heyman and Tazz at a house show in Long Island, NY on February 18, 2006. Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer will be booking the event and will be in complete control of the ECW PPV this year, however all ideas will be run by Vince McMahon before the final product hits the airwaves.
The event is being heavily criticized for the fact that the roster available for the show is very limited, due to some big-name ECW alumni (such as Raven, Shane Douglas, Rhino, and the Dudley Boyz) being signed to contracts with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). However, Paul Heyman has said that there are no issues in regards to getting enough talent to appear at the PPV.
On the May 22, 2006 edition of RAW, Rob Van Dam announced he will cash in his title shot (won at WrestleMania 22 in the Money in the Bank ladder match) at One Night Stand against WWE Champion John Cena. On the May 29, 2006 edition of Raw, Paul Heyman mentioned the possibility of, if Rob Van Dam were to win the match, the title becoming the new ECW World Title. Another match announced on that night is a tag team match with Tommy Dreamer and Terry Funk against Mick Foley and Edge.
On the June 2, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, Paul Heyman announced that Rey Mysterio will be defending his World Heavyweight Championship against Sabu. Heyman also said that Kurt Angle will issue an open challenge. On that same episode Tazz issued a challenge to Jerry Lawler that Lawler accepted on the June 5, 2006 episode of RAW.
On the June 5, 2006 edition of RAW, the contract signing between Rob Van Dam and John Cena took place. Also Randy Orton made an appearance, delivering an RKO to Kurt Angle and confirming their match for One Night Stand during WWE Unlimited.
Scheduled matches
- Tazz def. Jerry "The King" Lawler
- Lawler gets Knocked Out by the Tazzmission after interference from Joey Styles
- Kurt Angle def. Randy Orton
- Randy Orton tapped out to the Ankle Lock
- The FBI (Little Guido & Tony Mamaluke) def. Tajiri and Super Crazy
- Tony Mamaluke pinned Tajiri after a Double Fisherman Buster
- Rey Mysterio retains World Heavyweight Championship against Sabu after a No Contest decision
- The match ended in a No Contest after Sabu nailed Mysterio with a Triple Jump DDT through a table and both men could not continue.
- Mick Foley, Edge & Lita def. Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer & Beulah McGillicuty
- Edge pinned Beulah McGillicuty after a Spear
- Match changed from Tag Match into Mixed Tag Match
- Balls Mahoney vs. Masato Tanaka
- WWE Championship Match: John Cena (c) vs. Rob Van Dam
Talent
Confirmed Wrestlers
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Representing ECW
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Representing WWE
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Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko pitched the idea to have a match against each other as a tribute to Eddie Guerrero, but WWE have since dropped the idea (much to the disappointment of Benoit, Malenko, and many fans) with the thinking being that Benoit needs the time to recover from injuries more than Malenko needs to capitalise on his recent training. This match may be postponed to a later date.
There are also several former ECW performers currently under contract to WWE that could appear, including Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Kid Kash, Johnny Swinger (Johnny Parisi), Nova (Simon Dean), Psicosis, Joey Matthews (Joey Mercury), Dusty Rhodes and "Superstar" Steve Austin (Stone Cold Steve Austin). Wrestlers who currently do not work for either WWE or TNA, such as Chris Jericho, The Blue Meanie, Pitbull #1, Jason Knight, Dawn Marie, Mike Awesome, Lance Storm and others who appeared at last year's ECW One Night Stand may appear or wrestle at this year's ECW event.
Despite rumors referring to the contrary, Steve Corino had issued a statement that he would not be appearing at this year's One Night Stand. Corino also refused to work any of the ECW reunion shows last year citing that what he did in ECW "was in the past" and that the WWE are only putting on ECW events to "sell more DVDs." [1]
Many former ECW stars are currently employed by TNA Wrestling, including The Dudley Boyz (Team 3D), Raven, Rhino, Shane Douglas, and Jerry Lynn among others. Speculation arose that Rhino and Team 3D (two recent acquisitions for TNA in 2005) would jump back to WWE for the new ECW project, but during TNA Hardcore War, both Brother Runt of Team 3D and Rhino have declared that they will be staying with TNA.
New Jack did not appear last year because of an outstanding warrant, which has since been cleared. He is eligible to appear at this year's One Night Stand, if he is given an invitation. New Jack recently stated that he has put all grudges with Paul Heyman behind and that he would be willing to work with Paul Heyman for the upcoming relaunched ECW brand, which was officially announced to begin on June 13.
Trivia
- WWE.com reports that the event was sold out within 90 minutes, on April 15, 2006.
External links
- Official ECW website
- ECWWrestlingNews.com (Unofficial fan site)