ECW: 17th February 2009

Less thoughts this week, more a post to indicate that I did watch the show. Obviously, we're building towards the ECW match at Wrestlemania, which will feature Christian, Swagger and possibly Finlay. I guess a fourway with Henry isn't out of the question. I'd accept that - I prefer four way matches, with two seperate conflicts going on at one time, rather than the contrived three way spots that such matches involve.

Ignoring the Boogeyman match because that's basically a sideshow at this point, the Morrison vs. Dreamer match carries forward that feud with a couple more minutes of TV time. Morrison is great here - he's incredibly watchable with his athletically impressive offence and his natural charisma. Miz is fun at ringside as well. Want to see longer matches with both guys. Also want to see where the Dreamer angle is actually going, so that speaks to good booking. It's also simple booking - Dreamer gives a strong face promo, heel opponents mock him, they have a couple of matches. Tyson Kidd has another squash. Kick in the face was less disgusting than last week, unfortunately.

Main event was a tag with the top four guys. This was a perfectly fine formula tag match, with Christian making the hot tag. I liked the little spot where Christian went to tag Finlay who wasn't there at the time - Christian stops dead when he see's his partner is down on the floor, but Finlay gives him nothing in the way of an apology. A much more subtle and a lot less contrived play on the natural tensions between two crowd-favourite title contenders than "one guy accidentally costs the other a match/accidentally punches the other guy in the face" that's rammed down the audience's throat. Finish sets up next week's title match, which is fine. Swagger need's a win though - he's nowhere near established enough to lose every week and keep his standing. How they do that without cutting into Christian's returning momentum is another question. Your move, ECW.