"TNA! TNA!"

WWE couldn't have done a better job burying the ECW brand if they'd tried.

Didn't watch the PPV tonight, and judging by the reports I should be grateful. Hardys/MNM opener was apparently good. After that...wow. To steal a phrase from Rick Scaia, a monkey with a random match generator could have booked a better PPV.

-Balls Mahoney beat Matt Striker. Um, okay. This was PPV-worthy because?...

-Sabu got laid out in the back, taking him out of the Elimination Chamber main event. He was replaced by Hardcore Holly. Now there is exactly ONE person in the chamber who is an honest-to-goodness ECW alum.

-Elijah Burke and Sylvester Turkey beat the FBI. That noise you hear? Crickets and the immediate families of those involved.

-Daivari beat Tommy Dreamer. Wait, I must have read that wrong. No, I didn't. Yep, the Great Khali's wimpy manager got to go over the Innovator of Violence on an ECW PPV. There wasn't even any interference or anything.

-Kevin Thorn and Ariel beat Mike Knox and Kelly Kelly (that has to be the single worst diva name since "Barbara Bush") when Knox walked out on Kelly. She's been showing interest in CM Punk, even wished Punk good luck in the main event, so of course Sandman comes out to make the save for her. Yeah.

-And then...the main event. Six guys. Crowd is into maybe two of them: CM Punk and Rob Van Dam. CAN YOU JUST GUESS WHO ARE THE FIRST TWO ELIMINATED?!?!?! Punk pinned by RVD, then RVD pinned by Test. Then Test casually pins Holly, making his participation utterly pointless, and then has to WAIT AROUND for Lashley to get released from his pod. He does, pins Test with little fuss, and then has to WAIT AROUND himself for the Big Show to get released. Big Show is, they fight, Lashley pins him with a spear to become the new ECW champ. Sounded like the single most uninteresting Chamber in the history of the gimmick. The whole show was over by 10:30 or so, a good 20-25 minutes early.

The most interesting part of it all came during the main event: according to PWInsider.com, after CM Punk and RVD, the two guys who most fans actually seem interested in, got unceremoniously bounced from the match, the crowd first started chanting "bullsh*t!"

Then some of them started chanting "TNA!"

WWE's production staff was able to mute it, but it was there, by god. That HAS to be a first. Not just in WWE history, but ECW history as well. A product so poorly booked that the crowd starts chanting for a competitor? Now THAT'S impressive.

Well, who could blame them? After the past two weeks of WWE PPVs, I think TNA's last PPV, Genesis, is looking better and better by comparison. Hell, Joe/Angle, very good if somewhat disappointing, was a f*cking CLASSIC compared to what ECW fans got served tonight.

If this brand is still around come next year's December to Dismember, I'll be utterly shocked. Impact may be getting massively overbooked in the new Russo era, but it's sure better than this. You even get some actual wrestling now and then, too.