00:00Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the general manager of ECW, Tiffany!
00:12Last Sunday's TLC pay-per-view was an amazing must-see event from top to bottom.
00:20But there is one match that I am particularly proud of.
00:24And I would like to take the moment to recognize the participants.
00:27Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the gold standard, Shelton Benjamin.
00:43Shelton Benjamin obviously still in pain after his grueling ladder match for the ECW championship in TLC.
00:50Shelton is truly an amazing athlete who came so close to capturing the ECW title on Sunday.
00:57Shelton should be very proud of his outing at TLC.
01:01Oh, absolutely.
01:01Shelton, yeah, he did not win the ECW championship.
01:04But Christian and Shelton both had the same goal, to steal the show.
01:08If he asked me, they did that.
01:21And now, please welcome the current and reigning ECW champion, Christian.
01:43Well, the champion climbed the ladder and retained his ECW title Sunday.
01:49But Christian did not escape unscathed.
01:53The ECW champion needed seven stitches above his left eye.
01:57And the champ told me earlier that his internal injuries, specifically his ribs and his hip, are even worse.
02:04Let's go just show you how much pride, how much passion, Christian takes in being called champion of ECW.
02:28See, Christian having just as hard as time as Shelton Benjamin did, just entering the race.
02:47Gentlemen, your ladder match for the ECW title was awesome.
02:54You guys represented ECW to the fullest and stole the show.
03:00I, along with the WWE Universe, want to take this opportunity to say thank you.
03:15Well, Tiffany, thank you for that.
03:18And I want to thank all of you people, too.
03:21Because it's you guys that inspire us to take the risk and make ECW what it is today.
03:33And, uh, Christian, I got to be honest.
03:35I don't know if I was going to shake your hand or punch you.
03:39But I just want to say thank you.
03:41Because this Sunday was one of the most proudest moments of my career.
03:48And I just want to say thank you.
03:53But with that in mind, I did fall a little short of my goal.
03:59So I'm not going to waste any time in saying, hey, let's do it again.
04:07I want a rematch.
04:14Well, Shelton, you can actually get that opportunity.
04:28Enough.
04:33Enough of this poppycock and ribaldry.
04:40Firstly, Tiffany, I keep meaning to ask you every week, what is wrong with your voice?
04:48You sound like a goose blowing a kazoo.
04:52And, Shelton, secondly, for once, could you think of someone other than yourself?
04:59There is a bigger and much larger issue at hand.
05:04Kane!
05:16Mr. Regal, I was about to explain all of that.
05:20You see, Kane is a monster and a menace and a fiend.
05:31And I know that you knew at this job, but have you gone bloody mental by letting him back onto
05:39this show?
05:42Kane might be all of those things, but he is also a former ECW champion.
05:51And you see, I invited him here tonight to introduce a new concept in which I've invited, over the next
06:00few weeks,
06:00several past ECW stars to compete against the ECW stars of today.
06:07It's called the ECW homecoming.
06:13The winner will receive a championship match against Christian at the Royal Rumble.
06:21The competition will begin tonight with two matches.
06:30Zach Ryder will face the aforementioned Big Red Monster, Kane.
06:43And, Vladimir Kozlov will square off against Ezekiel Jackson.
06:57Good luck to you all.
07:06Vladimir Kozlov versus Ezekiel Jackson tonight.
07:10We're finally going to see it.
