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Summary: Bleah
Review: I don't know WHY people think ECW is so great. I watched this tape and it looked more like a well-done backyard wrestling show than PPV matches (is this the best ECW has to offer?) First of all, Joey Styles grates my last nerve. Joel Gertner is even worse. I'd rather listen to JR shriek in triplicates and call a match like a football game than listen to them (I don't like JRs style much either, but it beats ECW.) Rob Van Dam v. Jerry Lynn was probably the best match on the tape, but there was WAY too much stalling and taunting in between the actual WRESTLING. Most of the wrestling was done by Lynn, too: I don't see how Van Dam got billed over him when most of his in ring action consists of him doing backflips and pointing at himself. He's stepped up his game in the WWF, but in ECW his wrestling isn't so great. The Van Daminator is one of the dumbest moves I've seen. Awesome v. Tanaka was pretty good, but I get the impression that it was trying to be passed off as was Japanese wrestling is like, and it's seriously not. They seemed to be going for the ECW's philosophy of hitting highspots. Amusing, but not entertaining. The Dudleys v. Spike and Balls was the biggest load of garbage wrestling CRAP I've ever seen. It doesn't help that Spike v. The Dudleys has been played out and I don't care about it anymore, even in the WWF. There was NO flow to speak of, just bump, rest, bump, rest. I watched it on fast forward. Flaming tables are impressive, but...I felt dissapointed for some reason. When the WWF does a spotfest, they at least do it right. Their TLC matches are truly breathtaking. I honestly can't remember a whole lot about the match as I type this up, which proves that it was too bad to leave an impression despite the stage dives. Sabu v. Taz, eh, whatever. Not terribly great wrestling wise, and Sabu screwed up a whole bunch of moves. I remember this one had KILLER buildup, and this was the final result? This was not a good blowoff match, you can see better stuff on an episode of RAW. If you're one of ECWs mindless followers or a garbage wrestling fanatic, you'll enjoy this, but if you're a fan of WRESTLING, real wrestling, buy something else.
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Summary: ECW at its Finest
Review: Well have watched almost half of this DVD and it is already worth its weight in gold. The presentation on this DVD's is impressive.The matches are unbelieveable. Awesome vs Tanaka is a classic. Sandman vs Raven, is as they say to the extreme. The Dudley Boyz vs Balls and Spike was vintage Dudleys. Chesse graters and burning tables, enough said. Plus of course you can't leave out RVD. The man, the myth, the legend. Plus the extreme moments are unbelievable. When Sabu breaks his neck, that you definitely make you quiver in your seat. Plus Joey Styles is like the third man out there. When a big move goes down, the high pitched squeal of "Oh My God!" tears the house down. In conclusion, ECW Extreme Evolution is a must buy. Even for us Canadian boys up north who have to pay in Canadian dollars. Enjoy and I promise you, you will be chanting E-C-Dub all night long.
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Summary: ECW Extreme Evolution Uncensored DVD
Review: This DVD explains the reasons why that WWF bought up all the ECW wrestlers and made adjustments to there kind of child wrestling of characters like Doink the clown and brought in the the age of WWF attitude. Also unlike most WWF most VHS and DVD you get entire matches instead of 2min clips so you have to buy the more expensive pay-per-view DVD or VHS. Top Matches include- Rob Van Dam vs Jerry Lynn from Hardcore Heaven 99. Highlights include- RVD scores two 5 star frog splashes, RVD does a modified Van Daminator off the steel guard rail, Jerry Lynn almost kills himself after landing face first on concrete after receiving a side kick by RVd then falling from the top rope and Jerry Lynn scoring a modified powerbomb on RVD from the apron to a table outside. Mike Awesome Vs Masato Tanaka from November to Remember 99 for the ECW World Heavyweight Title. Highlights include- A sit down awesome bomb from the ring apron to a table on the outside on Tanaka(which includes Joey Styles breaking away from his catch phrase ), a top rope awesome bomb, and when Mike Awesome kicks out of all three of Tanakas finishers including the roaring elbow. Tazz Vs Sabu- from Barely Legal 1997. Ive seen better Tazz matches and Sabu matches but the events afterwords with Fonzy joining Sabu and RVD and becoming the manager of champions is well worth watching and ya gotta love the RVD "I love to work Mondays" speech. Dudley Boyz Vs Balls/Spike- from first ECW on TNN show was aight. Highlighted by Spike Dudley jumping off the top of a ladder in the ring to the concrete floor below in the beginning of the match and being put through two flaming tables at the end of the match saved the match cause the rest was just an average match(for ECW that is). Also the Extreme Moments was cool with Tazz almost killing Tommy Dreamer with the t-bone tazz plex off the crows nest to a table below,Chris Benoit breaking Sabu's Neck is an event to show non-wresting fans to make them realize how "real" wrestling is and New Jack doing a 15foot dive off the top of a basketball backboard through a table.
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Summary: Rob "The Man" Van Dam
Review: Take it from a Die hard wrestling fan. Anything with the ECW logo on it Kicks major [butt]. Rob Van Dam is outstanding! Great wrestler. He also holds Black belts in two martial arts. He fought in tough man competitions. ECW is brutal and bloody. Buy this.
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Summary: Extreme Wrestling
Review: Being a long time WWF mark, I was always intrigued by ECW. Unlike WCW, everyone who viewed it hailed it as the best promotion around. So I followed the advice of the reviewers on this site and purchased Extreme Evolution. I was impressed.
RVD vs. Jerry Lynn: Van Dam and Lynn put on an awsome hard hitting match that is very watchable. The very begining is annoying because RVD keeps stalling and showboating and his manager keeps blowing a whistle, but it picks up and becomes a great spotfest. High spot: Sunset flip powerbomb though a table which explodes on impact! .... ****.
Masato Tanaka vs. Mike Awesome: Some of the spots are amazing because they are both relatively big men. Hard hitting match, very rewatchable. High spot: Awesomebomb through a table from the apron. ****.
Raven vs. The Sandman: Really brutal. My first barbed-wire match, so it's unlike anything I've seen. Lots of blood and painful looking hardcore spots, but not enough good wrestling. Highspot: Sandman wraps himself in barbed-wire and leaps onto Raven who's on a table. ***1/2.
The Dudleyz vs. Spike and Balls: Good tag team street fight with lots of blood, which is good, but it all leads up to the climax... the climax/high spot: Spike is powerbombed through two FLAMING tables, I mean alot of fire! .... ***1/2.
Elimianators vs. Two Japanese Guys: This match sucked big time, it was lame, short, and the elbow drop wasn't that good for god's sake! It's NOTHING compared to Shane McxMahon's at Backlash 2001! Lame DUD. High spot: Saturn's scafold elbow drop. *1/2.
Taz vs. Sabu: This was good, yet not great. It was mad stiff, but overall it wasn't that great. I'm sure it was great considering the hype and fued all coming together at the first PPV, but it's not as brutal as claimed. High Spot: Sabu missing a tornado DDT into a table. ***.
Behulah and Tommy Dreamer vs. Franchise and Francine: Nohing special besides the totally unrehersed "coming out" by Francine. ....**.
Special features: Not that great. You see New Jack jump off a basketball backboard, Benoit break Sabu's neck (not as cool as it sounds), and Taz throw Dreamer off of a stage through a table. Mick's hidden promo is funny. Overall a great buy. Very good replay value, and very entertaining for non ECW fans.
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Summary: At least the Heart Was there
Review: After watching the heavily hyped Extreme Evolution on VHS I have to say, color me unimpressed. RVD is a terrible wrestler and anyone who could see through his unnecessary flippity flops before EVERY MOVE, could see that. The "Vandaminator" is the stupidest wrestling move ever. He throws a chair at his opponent, who catches it, and then the guy just holds it in front of his face while Van Damn kicks it. Try a little suspension of disbelief guys! The rest of the movie is pretty mediocre, with the good parts being Mike Awesome's match, and the old clips of when they had actual good wreslters like Benoit. The rest is just watered down BS that they want to make a cheap buck off of. It's definately not classic. Pass this by.
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Summary: The Truth About Extreme Evolution
Review: Coming From a diehard ECW fan, Extreme Evolution is great but a littl dissapointing. The Rob Van Dam vs. Jerry Lynn match was great...a classic rvd lynn match filled with a few sick spots including when jerry lynn bakes his nose and also suffers a concution atthesame time.the tanaka vs Mike Awesome match is incredible from november to remeber. On reason ibought this was for the rave vs. sandman barbwire deathmatch...this match was a little dissapointing...if you want to see agreat barbwire match get depe impact and watch the tery funk sabu match...the dudley boys vs balls and spike is one o my favprite macthes...it shows those WWF fans what the dudley's were really like before tey got waered down. The eliminators vs. dr. deat and terry gord is the oly match that i didn't like...it was such a sleeper and nothigngood even happens till the end when saturn does an elbow drp from a scaffold which isn't all that amazing to begin with. he sabu taz match is such a great match for taz. it showcases why he was one of the best ecw world champs...no such a classi for sabu becuase there wasn't as many high flying moves as he normaly would do..the mixed tag math is a little boring but the pile driver that dreamer gives francine is well worth the price of the vieo alone :) all i n all this is a great dvd to own if you are a huge ECW fan. and there is also a hidden actus jac prom that shows cactusat his best
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Summary: 1st ECW video release masterpice......Extreme Evolution!!!!!
Review: what a dvd\video in this one. When I heard ECW was going out of buisness I was so... off! Because I am a huge die hard ECW fan and I want some more and I heard they were releasing more ECW videos and I couldnt wait to pick this baby up and I was not disapointed. here are the matches and my ratings TV Champion RVD vs. Jerry Lynn - this is the rematch from Living Dangerously and what a match at that. the only bad thing about this match is that RVD showboats and brags too much in the beginning which takes up about 5 to 6 minutes, but otherwise this is one of may favorite matches of all time!!! I watch it over and over. This match runs 26:57 but every min except the 1st 5 are classic. this match is worth the price of the whole video My rating: ***** ECW Champion Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka get every single tanaka-awesome match you can find b/c its all good believe me on this one. Brutal Awesome Classic Match My rating: ***** ECW Champion Sandman vs. Raven in barbed wire match this is the first barbed wire match I saw and it's not as good as the Funk-Sabu match but it's still an ecw classic. My Rating: ***1/2 The Eliminators vs. Terry Bam Bam Gordy and Dr. Death I'm a big fan of all these guys. this is when Saturn was good and not a cuckoo head in WWF. nothin really special about this one except Dr. Death getting Powerbombed on the concrete and Saturn dropping an elbow drop off a scaffolding!!!! I think this match is reconzied for historical reasons though My Rating: *** Beulah and Tommy Dreamer vs. The Franchise and Francine this is the tag match when Francine has a... slip!! good spots with Tommy and Douglas though and a good spot where a fan hits Franchise with a chair and a brawl erupts. My Rating: **** (a star for the ... slip) The Dudley Boyz vs. Spike & Ballz this is an awesome match here!!! good brawl and man is that spike a good bumptaker!! good spots with flaming tables too and a good bloodbath My Rating: ****1/3 Sabu vs. Taz Taz was awesome at this point!! and Sabu had another world title reign ahead of him!! awesome match that set new standard for ECW My Rating: ***** Bottom Line: get this you will not be disapointed
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Summary: Good history lesson, but quality is somewhat low
Review: With a few exceptions, this was a good DVD. I'm giving it three stars for: - The Perry Saturn Match that was totally lame - The insane amount of time RVD spends pointing to himself, plus why the hell doesn't Jeri Lynn point the crap out of him and get on with the match? - The ridiculous cheese grater and staple gun crap - The bad recording quality of some of the matches - more than one match does not have the ring miked, and it makes the match look incredibly lame. Miking the ring is key to selling professional wrestling. - The commentary during matches is really bad. Despite all that, there's some great bumps and some great matchups. I probably wouldn't buy another ECW DVD, simply because I don't find it that rewatchable, but I'd rent any others if I could.
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Summary: EcW-eXtReMe EvOLuTiOn
Review: Le premier match est Rob Van Dam vs Jerry Lynn.Tres bon match.Tres technique.Chaises,tables.C'est le match ou Jerry Lynn tombe du troisieme cable en dehors du ring face premiere contre le sol et qu'il s'assome.C'est drole de voir Rob Van Dam qui ne sait plus quoi faire pendant que Jerry Lynn ne se releve pas.Finalement,Rob Van Dam gagne avec un Van Daminator et un Five Star Frog Splash. Le deuxieme match est Mike Awesome vs Masato Tanaka.Tres bon match aussi.Le Sit Down Awesome Bomb du coté du ring en dehors du ring dans une table est AwEsOmE!!Les lutteurs font chacun toutes leurs prises de finition et ne réussissent pas a faire un tomber de trois sauf a la fin quand Mike Awesome fait un Sit Down Awesome Bomb du troisieme cable et gagne le match.Beaucoup de bonne prises comme la Superplex de Tanaka sur Awesome dans une table et quand Awesome saute du troisieme cable dans la foule.Il y a un seul mot qui peut decrire Mike Awesome.........AwEsOmE!! Le troisieme match est Raven vs The Sandman dans un match de barbelé.Dans ce match,on remplace les cables par des cables de barbelé.Ceci fait que sa devien vraiment extreme et brutal.Le match est pas si pire mais sa parait que sa date de il y a 5 ans.Le meilleur moment est quand Sandman s'entoure de barbelé et qu'il saute sur Raven qui est sur un table sauf que Raven se tasse et Sandman tombe dans la table.Apres sa,Raven essaie de faire un Pildriver a Sandman dans une table mais la table casse avant qu'il est eu le temps de le faire.Apres,Raven fait un DDT a Sandman sur une piece de la table et sa fini comme sa.Assez brutal comme match.A la fin,Sandman et Raven sont ouvert partout:sur le ventre,le dos,les jambes,et la face. Le quatrieme match est Terry Gordy et Steve William vs The Eliminators(Perry Saturn et John Kronus).Le match est vraiment plate.Il y a une seule chose cool et c'est la fin.A la fin,Saturn monte sur une plate forme au dessus du ring et fait une descente du coude.Tres déçu de ce match. Le cinquieme et dernier match est Tommy Dreamer et Beulah vs Shane Douglas et Francine.Match plate.Je deteste les match avec des filles et je deteste les Cat Fight.Les meilleurs moments sont quand Shane Douglas se fait frapper par un fan avec une chaises et c'etait pas prevu dans le spectacle et aussi quand Tommy Dreamer fait un Pildriver a Francine et qu'elle perd son haut de bikini et qu'on voit ses seins.Sa fini que Shane Douglas et Francine gagnent. Jai été un peu déçu de cette cassette.Les trois premiers match sont bons mais les deux autres pourraient etre remplacés par des meilleurs.
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