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My initial reaction to Guilty as Charged was that it was the worst PPV that ECW has put on.  After letting things sink in and thinking about it a little more I concluded that while it wasn’t as bad as I initally thought but overall it still was a bad ECW PPV.

The strong point of the PPV was that all of the wrestlers worked hard, which as always, is what ECW does so much better than WWF and WCW.    Most notably Spike took some sick bumps, including one where he barely hit the table on the floor (I never knew Spike could cut a promo like that either).

Another thing that I liked was that Dusty Rhodes was used to put Rhino over rather than putting over himself.  Not doing that would have been a mistake.  And what’s the deal with Dusty?  This is ECW and guys are selling elbows like its the most devasting move in wrestling.  What’s up with that?

Now onto the bad points of the PPV.  Usually, I find Cyrus and Joey very entertaining together.  This time they drove me nuts.  Too much emphasis was away from what was going on in the ring.  Enough with the office already.

I had major issues with the booking, or in some cases, the lack there of.  The first two matches had the feel that they were just thrown together before the show in order to get as many of the young guys on the show as possible.  How about some real set up to these matches?  Wouldn’t it be nice to see a real angle set up between 2 guys, say Nova and Simon Diamond, rather than just throwing a bunch of young guys out there for no apparent reasons?  While I’m on the subject of young wrestlers I can’t tell you how much I hate all of these stupid names for moves.  It’s one thing if you are the originator of a move, that’s fine, but renaming simple moves like an elbow drop is annoying.

How are you not able to tell who the mystery partners will be?  You put the 2 known guys as a team.  That’s quite a swerve alright.  It just doesn’t make sense.  Guido turning on Jerry Lynn?  That’s shocking considering the bond that built up between the two over 10 minutes.  At least the match was used to put Jerry Lynn over some more (and the new tights are an improvement over his pleather tights).

RVD and Sabu was the one match that I was disapointed in wrestling wise.  It’s not that it was bad but I expected more out of both of them and the match went only 15 minutes.  They built up Sabu as the toughest challenge yet to RVD and yet there were no close pinfalls and Sabu is pinned after one frog splash and no other real significant offense.  This is suppose to be his toughest challenge?

Right before the match we learn that Sabu will leave if he loses this match.  Don’t you think that this would have been useful to know before the PPV?  That would have added to the drama of the match.  Of course there was virtually no mention of either RVD or Sabu on TNN the last 3 weeks so there wasn’t much to add.  This match left a lot more questions than it gave answers which is always frustrating on a PPV (I did predict RVD winning and parting with Fonzie).

Raven ‘doing the right thing’ is the only angle that you do in the tag title match?  Are you kidding me?  It’s a PPV doing something shocking!!  Do something that will make the fans talk about the match for years to come!!  I’m not against an angle moving along slowly but this is rediculous.

Overall I was very disapointed in how this PPV turned out.  On a scale of 1-4, I’ll give this a 2.

Be sure to check back for the weekend edition of DCS.  There should be additional news on the Acclaim deal coming out in the next few days.