Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12796 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-09
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

This is the last of the Extreme your ever going to see of ECW so enjoy it while you can
ECW one night stand is the last time you will see ECW greatness

WWE Championship Match
John Cena vs. Rob Van Dam 9/10
If you hate John Cena your going to love this match this is classic. Every fan just hates John Cena remember the sign if Cena wins we riot. Every time Cena hit RVD fans were booing. Ending of the match Edge comes out with bike helmet hitting Cena with a spear RVD then goes for a 5 Star Frog Splash to get the win.

Masato Tanaka vs Balls Mahoney
never took notice in the match

Mick Foley, Edge & Lita vs. Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer & Beulah McGillicutty 10/10
This was one of the best matches of 2006 Mick Foley & Edge hit it off at Wrestlemaina 22 with foley going through the table on fire. Then lead to this match as Foley wanted to team up with Edge to beat Funk & Dreamer. The match is all hardcore Foley and Funk go through tables you can see all the blood the 2 men lost and you can hear Foley and Funk shouting. The end to the match was Edge taking out Dreamer then a sper to Beulah to get the 1,2,3.

World Championship Match
Rey Mysterio vs. Sabu 9/10
Wow now this was a good match Extreme yes it was for sure. The overall ending was Sabu hitting Triple Jump DDT on Rey Mysterio through a Table this match thrus this match was no contest. As both men were out.

Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido & Tony Mamaluke) vs Super Crazy & Tajiri
That little crazy Mexican
i didnt really takes notice of this match

Tazz vs. Jerry Lawler 5/10
Jerry Lawler thought they would have another fight just as they did back in 2000. This fight all started over as i remember as Jerry calling ECW Extreme Crappy Wrestling once again. Just before the match starts Jerry slaps Joey Styles in the face. The ending of this match ends with Jerry passing out to Tazz with a Tazzmission.

Kurt Angle's Open Challenge
Kurt Angle vs. Randy Orton 6/10
Not a match i really liked as im a big Orton fan, Orton taps to Kurt Angle

ECW - EXTREME WRESTLING FOR THE NEW GENERATION
This years ECW ONS again blows away any other PPV of recent years despite the WWE being more involved in this one. Cool matches, nice segments and the trademark rabid ECW crowd that can even make the worst matches entertaining. I honestly admire the passion of the ECW fans, they know what they want and won't except anything less and they're not afraid to show it either. Totally awesome fans. It's just a shame that the current generation WWE crowd won't learn from this (as shone by Ikepoiyen668894;who proves nothing that WWE fans of the current demographic are nothing but hopeless eletists who don't know any better) instead of just merely excepting the poor state of the current WWE. Anyway, onward with the review(spoilers ahead).

Taz vs The King This was bound to be a short match but it served its purpose for the story-line and a match opener;Tazz chokes out the boring Jerry the King with his redundant commentary skills. It was nice seeing Joey Styles get involved. 4/10

Kurt Angle vs Randy Orton This was awfully mediocre for a match featuring Kurt Angle and it had every right to be better, Orton is a terribly inconsistent in-ring performer and an even worse heel as proved by the crowd. And to respond to what another reviewer said about the ECW fans n appreciating old school wrestling;what Orton put on display in that match(and all his matches in general)was not old school wrestling, more like an incompetence to work a steady paced match with one of the finest wrestlers in the world. The fans cheer Angle because they know he's an accomplished superstar with one of the most legitimate wrestling backgrounds in history, and they dump on Orton because they know he's a lousy performer who hardly lives up to this "future superstar" moniker (much like Batista and Cena). And as such, old school wrestling is a thing of the past and too much of a cliché for todays advanced audiences, ECW or WWE. Angle wins with Ankle Lock submission. 7/10 solely on fan reaction and proof that Randy Orton is a dud when it comes to the WWE dealing out mega pushes.

Tajiri/Super Crazy vs The FBI It was great seeing these guys back in an ECW arena again and it's great to know the fans still care about these guys despite the poor careers they've had in the WWE. Didn't like the end with Big Show cleaning house, that sucked as does Big Show. 8/10

Sabuvs World Champion Rey Mysterio Match of the night, end of story. Sabu in all his suicidal, homicidal, genocidal glory and Mysterio actually kicking it up a notch and making something actually watchable for the fans, and getting appreciated for it. Of course this is no surprise since Rey had already wrestled in ECW way back when in 1995. But screw that, this match was insane. Chairs, tables and high flying. It couldn't have been any better. And for those of you dissatisfied with the no-contest ending, if you really think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Sabu winning a title along with RVD's impending title win would have been too big of a promotion for ECW making WWE seem awfully inferior and Vince Mcmahon wont have that, and well, Rey beating Sabu would have looked bad for him and ECW. So this gets a 10/10 from me.

Terry Funk/Tommy Dreamer and Beulah vs Mick Foley/Edge and Lita This match screamed "successful nostalgia" for me. It just rules to see that Foley, Funk and Dreamer can still dish out the extreme in matches they have been doing for years, and Edge to me epitomizes what a future WWE superstar is supposed to be(not Randy Orton, in this case). Great use of weapons, lots of blood and the addition of a CATFIGHT between Beulah and Lita...AWESOME, another match of the night. 10/10 Mosato Tanaka vs Balls Mahoney This match is one of the few gripes I had with the event, when considering Tanaka's match of the year with Mike Awesome at last years ONS, and the fact that Mahoney and Tanaka have had far better matches under the ECW name, this match left an awfully sour taste in my mouth. At least we get to see Mahoney swing a chair. 5/10

Eugene/Sandman segment Long story short, Eugene sucks, Sandman caning the little retard rules but I pretty much share the other fans sentiments on his new entrance music. Oh well, it was cool hearing those cane shots again. 4/10 RVD vs WWE Heavyweight Champion John Cena The main event of this years ECW homage is another interesting sight to behold again due to the participation of the ECW crowd who give Cena a world of crap, and this has to be seen to be believed. The match it's self was mediocre with RVD pretty much carrying Cena who just did the 'same old *beep*' he's been doing all the time. Interestingly, it should be noted that Cena actually does have a wrestling background which means he does really have more ability and talent then what he showcases on TV which leaves one to question A)is Cena really being held back by WWE limitations or B)is Cena just to incompetent to simply walk up to Vince Mcmahon and say 'I can do better'. In any case, the ECW public just don't except Cena for who he is, a lousy WWE product. All that aside, it was damn amusing seeing the fans in this match and the random chants that were heard throughout. RVD wins after a 5*Frogslpash when Edge runs in wearing a motorcycle helmet and spears Cena through a table to which the fans applaud with a "thank you Edge" chant despite Edge being the big heel of the night, simply brilliant. Great ending to a great PPV and once again better then Wrestlemania. 8/10

ECW's second victory lap.
After the massive success of the first One Night Stand in 2005 and the excellent Rise And Fall of ECW DVD the same year, the WWE's higher-ups decided to relaunch ECW. Whilst since the relaunch, things have changed substantially and popular opinion is that Vince actually just wanted to flog the name while delivering the same WWE product (as any episode of the new ECW will show you), back in June 2006 we still believed, and this Pay Per View, a follow up to the original, while looking a little odd compared to the last one, still for the most part captured the spirit of the original ECW.

The only way you really review a Pay-Per-View, of course, is match-by-match ratings out of five stars, but honourable mention has to go to WWE for their excellent recreation of ECW's vibe; the minimum of effects, a realistic stage, the choice of the Hammerstein Ballroom as a venue and the opening segment being not a match to fire up the standard WWE crowd, but a promo from Paul Heyman to pump up the ECW faithful.

Jerry Lawler vs. Tazz - This isn't of course, actually a match, but more of a worked-shooted situation that dates back as far as 1996 that's just a work for Tazz to choke out Jerry Lawler. - ***

Randy Orton vs. Kurt Angle - This is one of the more dubious matches on the card, featuring as it does two WWE guys (although Kurt had just been signed to the ECW brand), though the fans seem to love Kurt Angle as an ECW-backer; but boy do they hate Randy Orton. Especially in the early days, ECW was known as much for its high quality technical wrestling as for its hardcore elements, and this was very obviously an attempt to feature a technical wrestling match on the Guerrero/Benoit level. It's not quite up to that level, and has a very slow start featuring a lot of headlocks. However, it gets better, they're given enough time to show their chops and the audience gets behind it. Captures the spirit of ECW mat-wrestling even if not reaching its quality. ****

The FBI w/ Big Guido vs. Tajiri and Super Crazy - Now this match is a lot more what technical wrestling, and tag team wrestling, is about. The four wrestlers involved stretch each other in allsorts of directions and perform some great moves that they don't get to do on WWE TV, much to the fans' delight. However, the best part of this match is new ECW signee Big Show coming out afterwards and destroying everyone in the ring, including Big Guido - watch out for his assault on Tony Mamaluke, which involves his devastating Cobra Clutch Backbreaker before he tosses Mamaluke across the ring as if he were weightless. A great match. ****

Rey Mysterio vs. Sabu (World Heavyweight Title Match) - Mysterio is soundly booed in this match due to his status as a WWE World Champion, and the boos are deafening when he attempts his WWE finisher the 619; a move that's up there with the People's Elbow as far as how devastating it is. However, aside from that part, Mysterio and Sabu manage to really capture what the extreme luchadores used to be about, and both chairs and tables are put to excellent use. However, the disappointing - and disappointingly early - finish really tarnishes this match, ending it on a sour note. - ****

Edge, Mick Foley and Lita vs. Tommy Dreamer, Terry Funk and Beulah - If you've read Mick Foley's book The Hardcore Diaries, you know that he was in a poor frame of mind going into this match and its extremely high quality surely had him sleeping easy that night. As Foley says, three of the four principal members of this match were way past their prime and broken down, with Funk in particular now in his Sixties and with the worst knees in wrestling. However the four of them, plus their respective valets, put on arguably the best match of the entire night, involving trash cans, barbed wire, fire, and Funk's trademark retreat to the back before returning in a blaze of glory.
Furthermore, this is one of the few matches on the card that has real heat - both Foley and Edge are excellent as heels here, using their least popular, least-ECW-type moves just to annoy the crowd and to great effect. For a quick course on how to be a brilliant heel, check out the winning pinfall - and also the promos before the match, featuring the greatest insulting nickname for Tommy Dreamer in the history of wrestling. - *****

Balls Mahoney vs. Masato Tanaka - The match on the card with the absolute least history, it would be hard for Tanaka to follow up his show-stealing performance with Mike Awesome from the previous year. He and Mahoney put on a decent hardcore show, but the match is so disappointingly brief that they never really get cooking properly, - **

Before the main event is an excruciating section featuring Eugene, the WWE's mentally challenged character. Even if you don't find that character to be tasteless, his nails-on-a-chalkboard voice gets old fast and you'll be relieved at the way his impromptu poem ends.

John Cena vs. Rob Van Dam (WWE title match) - The match everyone was talking about, as Cena got booed more than he ever has or ever will, unsuccessfully throwing his shirt and cap to the fans at least six times, every time getting it thrown back at him. With an ominous and infamous sign claiming that 'If Cena wins, we riot,' Cena actually holds his own in a hardcore match against RVD, and the two make a good showing for themselves. It's good, but not nearly as good as it could have been, especially with Rob Van Dam involved in a rare main-event appearance. - ****

All in all, a very good pay-per-view which was just about close enough to ECW to pass muster. While overall not as good as ONS2005, the Funk/Dreamer vs. Foley/Edge match was the best match of any of the ONS pay-per-views before or since. With a phenomenal set of extra features - the entirety of ECW's debut PPV Barely Legal and a pair of segments from the surrounding TV events - this set is absolutely worth your money, be you ECW fan or WWE fan.