ECW One Night Stand (2005) (TV)

Director:

Kevin Dunn

Writers:

Paul Heyman (writer)
Ed Koskey (writer)

Release Date:

12 June 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Sport

Plot Keywords:

Violence | Reunion | Enemy | Cheese Grater | Chair

Cast

Paul Heyman	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
C.G. Afi	...	Tony Mamaluke
Bill Alfonso	...	Himself
Michael Alfonso	...	Mike Awesome
Kurt Angle	...	Himself
Steve Austin	...	Himself
Doug Basham	...	Himself
Chris Benoit	...	Himself
Eric Bischoff	...	Himself
Jeff Bradley	...	Dudley Dudley (archive footage)
Terry Brunk	...	Sabu
Charlie Bruzzese	...	Himself
Michael Bucci	...	Nova (also archive footage)
Ron Buffone	...	Himself
Chris Candido	...	Himself (archive footage)
David Cash	...	Kid Kash
Dionico Castellanos	...	Psicosis
Chris Chetti	...	Himself
Jonathan Coachman	...	Himself
Rob Conway	...	Himself (as Robert Conway)
Adam Copeland	...	Edge (as Edge)
Lou D'angeli	...	Sign Guy Dudley (archive footage)
Nancy Daus-Sullivan	...	Woman (archive footage)
Michael Depoli	...	Amish Roadkill
Shane Douglas	...	Himself (archive footage)
Anthony Durante	...	Pitbull #2 (archive footage)
Michael Durham	...	Johnny Grunge (archive footage)
Edward Farhat	...	The Original Sheik (archive footage)
Mick Foley	...	Himself
Francine Fournier	...	Herself (also archive footage) (as Francine)
Jim Fullington	...	The Sandman
Dory Funk Jr.	...	Himself (archive footage)
Terry Funk	...	Himself (archive footage)
Terry Gerin	...	Rhino
Joel Gertner	...	Himself
Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Eddie Guerrero	...	Himself
Oscar Gutiérrez	...	Rey Mysterio
Trisa Hayes	...	Beulah (as Beulah McGillicutty)
Brian Heffron	...	The Blue Meanie (also archive footage)
Dan Hollie	...	Danny Basham
Maven Huffman	...	Himself
Devon Hughes	...	D-Von Dudley (also archive footage)
Matt Hyson	...	Himself (as Spike Dudley)
Mike Iorio	...	Big Guido
Francisco Islas	...	Super Crazy
Chris Jericho	...	Himself
Jason Knight	...	Himself
Brian Knighton	...	Axl Rotten
Tom Laughlin	...	Tommy Dreamer
John Layfield	...	Himself (as John Bradshaw Layfield)
Michael Lockwood	...	Himself (archive footage)
Mark LoMonaco	...	Bubba Ray Dudley (as Bubba Ray Dudley)
Jerry Lynn	...	Himself (archive footage)
Michael Manna	...	Stevie Richards
Darren Matthews	...	William Regal
James Mitchell	...	The Sinister Minister
Jim Molineaux	...	Referee Jim Molineaux
Matt Morgan	...	Himself
Dan Morrison	...	Danny Doring
Jamal Mustafa	...	Mustafa Saed (archive footage)
Ted Petty	...	Flyboy Rocco Rock (archive footage)
Al Poling	...	911 (archive footage)
Dawn Marie Psaltis	...	Herself (also archive footage) (as Dawn Marie)
Jonathan Rachner	...	Balls Mahoney
Alex Rizzo	...	Big Dick Dudley (archive footage)
Charles Scaggs	...	2 Cold Scorpio (archive footage)
Peter Senerchia	...	Taz (also archive footage) (as Taz)
John Smith	...	JT Smith
Tracy Smothers	...	Himself
Gene Snitsky	...	Himself
Al Snow	...	Himself
James Stone	...	Little Guido Maritato (also archive footage) (as Nunzio)
Lance Storm	...	Himself
Joey Styles	...	Himself
Yoshihiro Tajiri	...	Himself
Masato Tanaka	...	Himself
Rob Van Dam	...	Himself
P.J. Walker	...	Justin Credible
Mikey Whipwreck	...	Himself
Steve Williams	...	Himself (archive footage)
Gary Wolfe	...	Himself
Jerome Young	...	New Jack (archive footage)

Also Known As:

ECW One Night Stand 2005 (Australia)
One Night Stand (International: English title) (alternative title)
WWE One Night Stand (International: English title) (alternative title)

Runtime:

USA:180 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15 (DVD) | New Zealand:R13 | USA:TV-14 | Australia:MA | Canada:14A | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Filming Locations:

Hammerstein Ballroom, Manhattan Center - 311 West 34th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

Trivia:

Counting the pre-show dark match at Barely Legal, there are only six wrestlers who competed at both ECW Barely Legal and ECW One Night Stand 2005. They are Little Guido Maritato, Bubba Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley, Lance Storm, Sabu and the Sandman.

Quotes:

Joey Styles: [when Mike Awesome power bombed Tanaka through a table from the ringside apron] I think he's broken his friggin' neck!

Movie Connections:

References "Sanford and Son" (1972)

ECW One Night Stand 2005

This was a FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT, UNBELIEVABLE PPV! I LOVED everything about this PPV, and I just hope McMahon does another one, one day.

Joey Styles was clearly emotional as he entered the ring at the beginning, and he shouted the famous catch phrase "Oh, My God!" The fans were shouting "Joey!" and "ECW, ECW!" Match one kicked off as Lance Storm took on 'Lionheart' not 'Y2J!' Chris Jericho in a fantastic battle. The Lance Storm and Dawn Marie partnership brought back fond memories. This was a fantastic technical battle, and that's a shame when you think about it because WWE will not allow Jericho to use this kind of wrestling in the WWE. Storm won when Justin Credible hit Jericho with a kendo stick. All perfectly legal! Next up one of the best Cruiswerweight matches I have seen in my 13 years as a wrestling fan, Yoshiro Tajiri took on Little Guido and Super Crazy in a crazy match! Highlights included Super Crazy jumping off the balcony onto Guido and The FBI! and Mikey Whipwreck took Little Guido out with a neck breaker off the top rope! Crazy won this amazing battle! Even though this was good, it featured too much interference from Mikey Whipwreck and The Sinister Minister and was 6 minutes long. Then the Smackdown! invaders which consisted of JBL, Kurt Angle, The Basham Brothers, Carlito, Matt Morgan and Orlando Jordan 'invaded' the arena. The fans shouted " You suck d*cks" and Angle shouted back " Yes I got that off your mothers!" This was brilliant and then RVD's music hit the arena as he made his way out with Bill Alfonso! RVD's mic skills were ace during this, as he said things like "Remember when I had a vocabulary?!" and " This is EC f*ckin W!" But then Rhyno ran in and gored RVD out of his boots until the fans shouted "Sabu, Sabu!" The lights went out and there he was the man himself! The match was on, Rhyno vs Sabu, this was a fantastic battle, which saw RVD getting involved despite his injured leg. He hit Rhyno with a Van Terminator, and this caused Sabu to jump on top off Rhyno on a table for the win! Brilliant! Next up Rey Mysterio battled Psycosis. It wasn't that good. It featured a sleeper hold from Psycosis which was booed and a non ECW move 619 which was also booed. Mysterio won. Then Eddie Guerrero battled Chris Benoit in a fantastic battle. Benoit won with the cross face. One funny moment during this match was when half the arena shouted "Lets go Benoit" whilst the other half shouted " Lets go Eddie!" LOL! Next up I just could not believe my luck. Mike Awesome took it to Masato Tanaka in a cracking battle. To be honest this was probably the best match of the night. Awesome flew out of the ring onto Tanaka, he powerbombed Tanaka out of the ring onto a table and powerbombed him again on a collapsed table in the ring! Awesome won, and the fans loved this match up, and so did I! This match was...... Awesome! Then the main event took place as the Dudley Boyz took on The Sandman and Tommy Dreamer in a blood filled match. The fans were all over The Sandman who whacked his head several times with beer cans! This was hardcore, bloody and damn right dangerous! They used cheese graters, kendo sticks and even put Tommy Dreamer through a FLAMMIN TABLE! for the win! Then at the end, the Raw and Smackdown! invaders got in the ring and had a BIG fight with the whole of the ECW locker room. But the story was that JBL actually beat up The Blue Meanie for real during the brawl. Then they all beat the crap out of Bischoff, and they all drank beers! Thank you Paul Heyman, Thank you Vince McMahon and thank you to all the wrestlers who made this very special.

The only real disappointments on the PPV were Mick Foley's awful commentary. Even though Joey Styles was fantastic, Foley wasn't. It reminded me of Art Donovan at King of the Ring 1994, but old Art had an excuse he was meant to be clueless. Secondly the repeated camera shots of the Raw and Smackdown! invaders and thirdly a WWE version 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin coming to the ring. But these details aside this was awesome.

A tribute video to those wrestlers who are no longer with us, was touching and upsetting, but thank you for showing this and making sure that are still not forgotten.

Overall Grade A**