Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Seriously though folks, anyone else really disappointed in RAW this week as I am? I thought the show was really...I dunno, crappy. I know Vince is still on his personal quest to bury ECW and everything associated with it, but usually RAW is pretty watchable.

Last night, for the first time in a long time, I had to turn RAW off.

And I'll be frank. When I started getting back into wrestling back in the late 90's Austin/Rock/DX/NWO era, ECW was a small blip in the radar and I didn't really pay them much attention until I saw RVD. It was the summer of my Sophmore year in College, I was in LA (don't ask) and I saw two things live on PPV that made me a wrestling fan for ever. 1st was the tragic passing of Owen Hart, and the 2nd was the RVD vs. Jerry Lynn match from, well, whatever PPV it was that they wrestled in that summer. Something 99', to be sure.

And I was enthralled.

Here were two guys, willing to take the kind of punishment that they did for the sake of a great match. It wasn't the prettiest match, the best match, or really, thinking back on it, the best match they ever had. But it did get me thinking. Then, months later, when ECW moved to the ill fated Tnn show, I saw the 2 wrestle again on episode 4.

And then I was hooked.

Yeah, and so I went and saw ECW live twice before it folded, started watching ECW PPV and whatever I could get my hands on, met a young Bill Lavin who introduced me to the "sport" of e-fedding and well, I met Bpapa from there and now here I am writing about wrestling on his website.

So, last night, Randy Orton went over RVD in a match that had RVD put Orton in a way I haven't seen since a young Chris Beniot broke Sabu's neck by accident and then got a push as the "crippler". So, farewell Rob. Thanks for the memories.

I don't think I'll be wathing RAW for a while.

But I'll be watching TNA with bated breath and high hopes for whoever Rob Szatkowski shows up as next.

-Dirteep-

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