December to Dismember (2006)

December to Dismember (2006)
Tagline(s) You Better Watch Out...
Theme song(s) "Bodies" by Drowning Pool[1]
Information
Promotion World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand (s) ECW
Date December 3, 2006
Attendance 4,800
Venue James Brown Arena
City Augusta, Georgia
Pay-per-view chronology
Survivor Series (2006) December to Dismember (2006) Armageddon (2006)
December to Dismember chronology
December to Dismember (1995) December to Dismember (2006) Final

December to Dismember (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on December 3, 2006 at the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia. Professional wrestling is a type of sports entertainment in which theatrical events are combined with a competitive sport. The buildup to the matches and the scenarios that took place before, during, and after the event, were planned by WWE's script writers. The event starred wrestlers from the ECW brand: storyline expansions of the promotion where employees are assigned to wrestling brands under the WWE banner. Despite it being a ECW brand pay-per-view, wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown! brands also worked on the pay-per-view.[2] Its name was derived from the December to Dismember event held by the original Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1995.

The main attraction on the event card was an Extreme Elimination Chamber match for the ECW World Championship. It featured wrestlers fighting in a ring surrounded by a steel structure of chain and girders. The six participants were defending champion The Big Show (Paul Wight, Jr.), Bobby Lashley (Franklin Lashley), Rob Van Dam (Robert Szatkowski), Hardcore Holly (Bob Howard), CM Punk (Phil Brooks) and Test (Andrew Martin). Lashley won the match and the ECW World Championship after pinning Big Show following a spear.[3] The featured bout on the undercard was a tag team bout between The Hardys (real-life brothers Matt and Jeff) and MNM (Joey Mercury [Adam Birch] and Johnny Nitro [John Hennigan]), in which The Hardys were victorious.[4]

Including its scripted buildup, the event had an attendance of 4,800 and received about 90,000 pay-per-view buys, with 55,000 of them domestic buys—the lowest buyrate in WWE history.[5][6] Although it was scheduled to be held again in 2007, the show was canceled after all pay-per-view events became tri-branded, which meant that there would be pay-per-view events with the entire roster on two consecutive weeks.[7]

Contents

Background

Outside of the weekly ECW broadcast, one of WWE's primary television programs, the pay-per-view received little buildup on either the Raw or SmackDown! television shows, as WWE concentrated more on the Survivor Series pay-per-view that aired one week prior to December to Dismember. At this time, the main storyline on the Raw brand featured tag teams D-Generation X and Rated-RKO,[8] and the main storyline on the SmackDown! brand featured Batista (Dave Bautista) and World Heavyweight Champion King Booker (Booker Huffman).[9] The buildup for December to Dismember began in the middle of October, six weeks before the event occurred.[10] This was the only ECW brand exclusive pay-per-view produced by WWE before the decision was made to include wrestlers from all three brands—Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW—on all pay-per-views.[11]

The Big Show as ECW World Champion

The main event at December to Dismember featured an Extreme Elimination Chamber match, where the ring is surrounded by a steel structure of chain and girders. On the October 24, 2006 edition of ECW, Rob Van Dam won an opportunity at the ECW World Championship by defeating The Big Show in a Ladder match, a match where the contestant that climbs a ladder and retrieves an item (usually a title belt) hung above the ring is the winner.[12] Van Dam traded in this championship opportunity at the December to Dismember pay-per-view.[13] Authority figure Paul Heyman, a portrayed match maker and rules enforcer, authorized Van Dam's decision by adding him to the Extreme Elimination Chamber contest along with five other wrestlers, including the champion, The Big Show.[14] The remaining four participants for the match were decided through standard wrestling matches. The first person to qualify for the Elimination Chamber was Sabu (Terry Brunk), who defeated Kevin Thorn (Kevin Fertig) on the October 31, 2006 edition of ECW.[14] The following week, CM Punk and Test qualified by defeating Mike Knox (Michael Hettinga) and Tommy Dreamer (Thomas Laughlin), respectively.[15] As a part of the storyline, the final place was to be given to Hardcore Holly in a contract signing segment on the November 14, 2006 edition of ECW. As Holly was making his way to the ring, however, Bobby Lashley, a wrestler from the SmackDown! brand, attacked Holly and signed the contract himself to gain the sixth and final place in the Extreme Elimination Chamber.[16] Although the six spots in the bout were filled, Heyman announced a contest between Van Dam and Holly in an Extreme Rules match on the November 21, 2006 edition of ECW, with the stipulation that if Van Dam lost, Holly would get his spot in the Extreme Elimination Chamber; Van Dam however, was able to win the match.[17] Van Dam continued his momentum into December to Dismember as he, along with team members Sabu, Lashley, John Cena and Kane (Glen Jacobs) defeated the team of The Big Show, Test, Umaga (Eddie Fatu), Finlay (Dave Finlay) and Montel Vontavious Porter (Alvin Burke, Jr.) in a 5-on-5 elimination tag team match. The match, a variation of a normal tag team match except that a wrestler who suffers a loss is eliminated from participation, took place at the Survivor Series event.[18] On the final edition of ECW before December to Dismember, Van Dam defeated Sabu. Later in the show, CM Punk faced Test, but both men were counted out in their bout. In the main attraction, The Big Show was disqualified in his match against Lashley as Test and Heyman's Security Force (Doug and Danny Basham [Daniel Hollie]) were scripted to assault Lashley, causing the disqualification.[19]

Johnny Nitro looking out to the crowd

The other main rivalry heading into December to Dismember was between real-life brothers Matt and Jeff Hardy and MNM (Joey Mercury, Johnny Nitro and Melina [Melina Perez]). Unlike the Extreme Elimination Chamber staged rivalry, this one did not include ECW wrestlers and was only between members of the Raw and SmackDown! brands, making the event span all three WWE brands.[19][20][21] The buildup began when Nitro and Jeff began to feud over the Intercontinental Championship on Raw.[22][23] The two competed in several different types of matches, including a ladder match.[8] The Hardys had just teamed up for the first time since 2002 on ECW, when they defeated Tony Mamaluke (Charles John Spencer) and Little Guido Maritato (James Maritato).[17] At Survivor Series, The Hardys, along with D-Generation X and CM Punk defeated the team of Nitro, Rated-RKO (Edge [Adam Copeland] and Randy Orton), Mike Knox and Gregory Helms (Shane Helms).[24] The next day at the December to Dismember press conference, The Hardys made an open challenge for the pay-per-view. Later that night on Raw, Nitro accepted the challenge, announcing the return of Mercury and the "one night only" reformation of MNM.[20] That Tuesday on ECW, MNM attacked The Hardys after they won their match against Elijah Burke and Sylvester Terkay.[19] Meanwhile, Voodoo Kin Mafia, a tag team from the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, issued a statement via the TNA website stating that they accepted The Hardys' open challenge for December to Dismember.[25] Voodoo Kin Mafia did not turn up at the event, and WWE never acknowledged the challenge. Only two matches were officially announced for the pay-per-view before it aired.[2][26]

Event

Bobby Lashley during his ECW World Championship reign

Before the event went live on pay-per-view, Stevie Richards (Michael Manna) defeated René Duprée (René Goguen) in a dark match, a non-televised match used to generate excitement in the crowd.[27]

Preliminary matches

The first match that aired was the tag team encounter between MNM and The Hardys. After a back and forth match, which lasted over 20 minutes, MNM performed a flapjack DDT on Jeff, a move that sees an opponent get pushed upwards in air by the tag team and then is forced to dive forward onto his own head. During a pinfall attempt, Matt interrupted and performed a double neckbreaker on MNM. Jeff then performed a Swanton bomb and pinned Nitro, a move which sees an attacking wrestler leaping off the top turnbuckle keeping their bodies straight and arms out-stretched, making it resemble a swan dive, and then waiting until the last moment to execute the flip, so that they just barely complete it when impacting with the opponent.[2][4][28] Next was Matt Striker versus Balls Mahoney in a "Striker's Rules" match, a match with "no gouging of the eyes, no pulling of the hair, no maneuvers off the top rope and, most importantly, no foul language".[2][29] Mahoney won the match after he performed a spinebuster, a move that sees the wrestler grab the opponent around the waist and lift them up, turning 180°, and toss them forward onto their back or slam them down while landing on top of them.[2][28]

After the match, Sabu was depicted as injured backstage and unable to compete in the Extreme Elimination Chamber match.[30][31] His place was taken by Hardcore Holly.[2] In reality, however, it was rumored that Sabu had animosity surrounding him backstage and was said to be disinterested at television tapings. Rumors evolved stating that WWE viewed Sabu as being "useless" in normal matches and that he could only perform in matches that included "stunts and tables and they [WWE] don't respect him because of that". This was reportedly part of the reason he had been scripted to be easily defeated by Umaga on an edition of Raw a few weeks earlier.[8][32] Vince McMahon wanted to put Holly in the match, so Lashley would have more villains to overcome. Heyman was legitimately unhappy with the decision, saying that Sabu's high-flying wrestling would be "the ideal showcase" inside the Extreme Elimination Chamber.[26] The fans inside the James Brown Arena chanted "bullshit" during the segment.[2]

In the second tag-team match of the night, Elijah Burke and Sylvester Terkay defeated F.B.I. members Little Guido Maritato and Tony Mamaluke. Burke pinned Mamaluke after pushing him into the mat face-first by performing a Forward Russian legsweep on him.[33] After the match, Terkay performed a Muscle Buster on Maritato, a move which sees the wrestler lift the opponent into a position that has their head resting on their shoulder, and then jumps up and down to the mat, implanting the opponent's neck into the attacking wrestler's shoulders. [28] During this match, the fans inside the James Brown Arena chanted "TNA, TNA" (a reference to WWE's rival professional wrestling promotion, as well as two of their performers utilizing the moves of Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe [Joe Seanoa], respectively).[2] A standard match between Daivari (Shawn Daivari) and Tommy Dreamer followed. The Great Khali (Dalip Singh) accompanied Daivari to the ring for this match but was ejected from ringside early on for interfering. Daivari won the match using a roll-up, a pinning maneuver that sees the attacking wrestler roll their opponent's back so that the opponent's legs are above their head and then wraps his/her arms around the legs and presses down to pin the shoulders. Khali came back out after the match had ended and grabbed Dreamer by the neck, lifted him up and threw him to the mat—a move known as a chokebomb. EMTs came out to help Dreamer up, but he got up on his own and headed backstage.[2][28][34]

The next match was a intergender tag team match between Kevin Thorn and Ariel (Shelly Martinez) against Mike Knox and Kelly Kelly (Barbie Blank). Before the match began, Kelly Kelly was shown wishing CM Punk, her on-screen crush, luck for the main event. The finish of the match came when Knox walked out on Kelly Kelly, leaving her on her own in the ring. Ariel performed a legsweep, a variation of a takedown, on Kelly Kelly for the pinfall.[28] Following the match, Ariel and Thorn were scripted to attack Kelly Kelly, however, The Sandman (Jim Fullington) interrupted and hit Thorn repeatedly with a kendo stick.[2][35]

Main event match

The Elimination Chamber structure

The final match was the Extreme Elimination Chamber main event for the ECW World Championship. Before it began, Paul Heyman came out to the ring and explained the rules of the match and said that there was a weapon in each of the four different pods that housed the wrestlers.[28] In a conversation backstage with The Big Show before heading to the ring not seen by television viewers, Heyman revealed that for the first-time in his professional career he was not motivated to give the promo.[26] Rob Van Dam and Hardcore Holly started off the match, and one of the other four competitors entered every five minutes afterwards. The first person to be released from his pod was CM Punk, who entered the match with a steel chair in hand. Test came out five minutes after Punk with a crowbar. Punk was the first person eliminated from the match when Van Dam performed a body splash from the top turnbuckle. Moments later, Test charged at Holly and hit his head with his boot and pinned him. Van Dam was the third person eliminated by Test, as he stood on The Big Show's pod and dove toward Van Dam, driving his elbow into his chest onto a folding chair, a move known as a diving elbow drop. When Bobby Lashley's pod was supposed to open, he could not get out of it because Heyman's Security Force had bolted the pod shut. Lashley used the table that was with him to smash the pod open, allowing him to escape. Lashley then hit Test with a spear, a variation of a takedown, to get a pinfall. The Big Show was the final man to exit his pod and enter the match, with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Lashley blocked The Big Show's swing of the bat with a folding chair and then threw The Big Show into a pod, causing him to bleed. Lashley managed to turn an attempted chokeslam from The Big Show into a DDT, a move in which the wrestler falls down or backwards to drive the opponent's held head into the mat, and then speared The Big Show to win the match and become the new ECW World Champion.[3][28]

Aftermath

Other on-screen talent[36]
Role: Name:
Commentator Joey Styles
Tazz
Referee Scott Armstrong
Mike Posey
Mickie Henson
John Cone
Interviewer Rebecca DiPietro
Ring announcer Justin Roberts

Not long after December to Dismember, The Big Show was offered a long-term contract extension by WWE, reported to be around $1 million a year. He turned it down, however, because he was burned out and hurting physically.[2][26][37] On the edition of ECW, which aired two days after December to Dismember, Show faced Lashley in an ECW World title rematch, which Show lost, thus ending their storyline feud.[38] He was not seen on WWE television thereafter, and his contract was not renewed before it expired in February 2007.[39]

After the storyline feud with The Big Show ended, Lashley entered a short program with Rob Van Dam, which led to Van Dam earning a title match on the January 2, 2007 edition of ECW. The match between the two ended in a No Contest after Test interfered during the bout.[40] Test's interference led to a program with the champion, leading to a title match at the Royal Rumble, which Lashley won.[41]

Reception

Less than 24 hours after the pay-per-view, WWE announced on their official website that Vince McMahon had sent Heyman home, citing "slumping television ratings and a disgruntled talent roster as causes for Mr. Heyman’s dismissal".[42] Heyman and McMahon clashed on the plane to the North Charleston Coliseum.[43] After a producers' meeting,[43] Heyman was escorted from the Coliseum and sent home. Heyman was also immediately pulled from ECW's creative team. McMahon was attempting to put the blame on Heyman for the poorly received pay-per-view, and after a meeting with Vince and Stephanie McMahon, Heyman legitimately left World Wrestling Entertainment but remained under contract.[43][44][45] Heyman was against Lashley being booked to win the ECW Championship, however, McMahon stated that fans would be happy to see a new champion and a 10-minute celebration.[26][43][46] In an early 2008 interview with The Sun, Heyman stated how he would have booked the Elimination Chamber main-event, which included having Punk enter first and quickly eliminating the Big Show via submission. According to the interview, McMahon disliked the idea, but Show liked the direction Heyman was heading. Heyman also stated that he kept going to McMahon on the night of the pay-per-view to say that "The people are going to throw this back in our face".[43]

Critics and fans had a negative reaction to the pay-per-view.[47][48][49] Slam! Sports rated the pay-per-view 4 out of 10 stars, stating, "the two matches that were promoted saved this thing from being a debacle".[2] In the 2006 Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards, the event was voted the "worst major wrestling show of the year".[50]

Results

# Results Stipulations Times
Dark Stevie Richards defeated René Dupree.[27] Standard match n/a
1 The Hardys (Matt and Jeff) defeated MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro) (with Melina).[2][4] Tag team match 22:35
2 Balls Mahoney defeated Matt Striker.[2][28][29] Striker's Rules match 07:23
3 Elijah Burke and Sylvester Terkay defeated The Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido Maritato and Tony Mamaluke) (managed by Trinity).[2][33] Tag team match 06:41
4 Daivari (managed by The Great Khali) defeated Tommy Dreamer.[2][34] Standard match 07:24
5 Kevin Thorn and Ariel defeated Mike Knox and Kelly Kelly.[2][28][35] Intergender tag team match 07:43
6 Bobby Lashley defeated The Big Show (c), Rob Van Dam, Hardcore Holly, CM Punk and Test[2][3] Extreme Elimination Chamber match for the ECW World Championship 24:43
(c) - refers to the champion heading into the match

Elimination Chamber entrances and eliminations

Eliminated Wrestler Entered Weapon Method of elimination Time
First CM Punk Third Steel chair Pinned after a Five-Star Frog Splash from the top turnbuckle by Van Dam 12:35
Second Hardcore Holly First n/a Pinned by Test after a Big Boot 12:45
Third Rob Van Dam Second n/a Pinned by Test after a diving elbow drop onto a steel chair from the top of The Big Show's pod 14:00
Fourth Test Fourth Crowbar Pinned by Lashley after a spear 19:42
Fifth The Big Show Sixth Barbed wire
baseball bat		 Pinned by Lashley after a spear 24:43
Winner Bobby Lashley Fifth Table

See also

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