ECW went underway with a backstage promo. With Teddy Long in his office, Dreamer belittled him for being a coward and a weakling, placing emphasis on his DQ loss last week. As punishment, and as a way to put this behind them once and for all, Long and Dreamer would face off tonight, and so Long didn't DQ himself yet again, if were to lose, Long would be fired.

The first match of the night pitted Dreamer's new favorite, Kaval, against Mike Knox in a Hardcore Title Shot Qualifier. The match went back and forth at first, but Kaval's spells of dominance were more impressive, with the crowd chanting for him to hit some of his trademark stiff kicks. In what was ultimately a glorified squash, Kaval showed off his more wrestling-based moves and in the end he hit his old finisher the Ki Krusher and followed it up with the Warrior's Way for the win.

Backstage again, Tommy Dreamer was warming up for his match later when DJ Gabriel and Alicia Fox danced their way down the hallway. Dreamer had to yell to grab their attention, causing DJ to be apprehensive, especially as it was his dancing that catalysed Dreamer's outburst two months ago, which in turn led to his conflict with Long. But Dreamer instead congratulated him for showing that he had some extreme in him last week, and that he was more than a fruity dancer. Not knowing what Dreamer was on about, he was nonetheless ecstatic when Dreamer said that he was giving him a chance tonight. If he won his match, he'd join two others in next week's Triple Threat for the Hardcore Title.

Paul Burchill, with Katie Lea by his side, made his way to ringside, followed up by The Miz, who came down with John Morrison, for the second qualifier of the night. The Miz, keen to change the his streak around, went all out in the early-going but soon burned himself out, and became erratic, constantly attempting his finisher, only for Burchill to repeatedly take him down, nailing a vicious lariat several times before The Miz learned his lesson, but it was too late. Burchill took him out with a Curbstomp and followed it up with the C-4, which elicited a noticeable pop from the crowd, thus adding Burchill to the title match next week.

After a short break, we return to see Morrison consoling his partner, only to come across Dreamer, who seems to be on his way to the ring himself. Dreamer tells the duo that he's disappointed. He gave The Miz two chances now to prove himself, and how does he repay him? By challenging any tag team for a match at No Way Out, without asking Dreamer for permission. But he wasn't mad, no, he understood that they wanted to prove themselves to be the best tag team in the business, which was why instead of facing one team, they'll be facing 5, and in the Elimination Chamber no less.

As the commentating team practically wet themselves with excitement regarding the World Tag Team Title Match that was announced, Teddy Long got to the ring, and was followed by Tommy Dreamer, whose pop was the biggest thus far by a fair margin. Long did his best to avoid Dreamer in this thankfully short match, but he ultimately failed, as Dreamer caught him and nailed him with a flurry of punches before putting him out of his misery and of his job with the Dreamer Driver.

After a NWO promo, we return to see a few floating hearts soar across the screen, fairy-dust trailing them. As they do so, the dust settles, forming the words: Love Doctor, as Colt Cabana walks into the black screen and spreads his arms, smiling.



Dancing to the ring with Alicia Fox, DJ Gabriel got ready for the final qualifier of the night, which would be against Chavo Guerrero. Chavo had a tough time keeping up with Gabriel at first, who grounded him with some arm-locks as well as with some high-impact moves, such as the Giant Swing and straight-jacket suplex. Chavo managed to get some offense in, but again fell to DJ's superior strength, as he was nearly pinned following a Gutbuster Drop. Chavo went to the outside in an attempt to regroup, but Gabriel went after him. DJ chased him around the ring, but stopped dead in his tracks when Chavo pushed Alicia out of the way, throwing her into the barricades. DJ stared at her for a moment before snapping, and charged at Chavo, turning Chavo inside out with a lariat and battering away at his head before nailing the Dancing Cradle Piledriver on the outside. Still huffing, DJ seemed to snap back to his former self, and realising that the ref was at the 9 count, got inside the ring, getting the count-out victory, although with no idea over how he did it.

Backstage, we see Ricky Ortiz talking to Tiffany again, who has her arms crossed and is visibly angry. She says that she still can't believe he actually thought he could wager her in a match, but he apologises and compliments her, saying he won't make the same mistake again. Tiffany just scoffs, saying that of course he won't be doing it again, even if he wins tonight, she still doesn't want to have anything to do with him. As she walks away, Ortiz asks whether she will at least be cheering him on at ringside, only for her to say that she will only watch to make sure Swagger doesn't kill him in the ring. Irate at the mention of his nemesis, Ortiz's face is flushed, and before he leaves for the ring, a heart-shaped arrow strikes the wall, missing his head by inches. He removes it and stares at it, as we go to commercials again.

As Ortiz waited in the ring, the steel cage surrounding it, Jack Swagger made his way there, and as soon as he entered the cage, Ortiz charged, leading to an opening brawl as the time-keeper quickly rang for the start of the match. For the first time in their entire feud, it looked like Ortiz might actually be triumphant, as he dominated the early going, hitting repeated shoulder blocks as well as a Diving Dropkick. However, he underestimated Swagger and quickly went for the Big O, only for the All-American American to quickly get to his feet and hit a scoop powerslam. Swagger had the rest of the match, propping Ortiz on his shoulders in a powerslam position and slamming Ortiz against the steel, as well as a variety of suplex maneuvers. He only quit these sadistic attacks when Tiffany, who ran to ringside, begged him to stop from the outside. Swagger looked at her for a moment before nailing the Gutwrench Bomb and quickly escaping the cage, with Ortiz bleeding from his forehead on the mat. Tiffany looked worried for a moment, but eventually left with Swagger, who wrapped his arm around her and grinned at the crowd with self-righteousness.

Backstage we have Joey Styles interviewing Kaval over his title match next week, not even a month after his debut. Kaval says that it wouldn't have changed things if he were there for years, a month, or a day, he was a soldier, and soldiers win battles. Every match is a battle won, and with every battle won, Kaval nears championship gold. He has already defeated 3 of ECW's men, and next week he would add 2 more to the figure. Styles seems to be a bit intimidated by Kaval's seriousness and is anxious to get this interview over and done with, and so he doesn't follow up with another questions and instead bids goodbye to Kaval.

In the Main Event, the two giants, Mark Henry and Vladimir Kozlov paired up to take on Matt Hardy and Evan Bourne. The match started between Bourne and Henry, and Evan quickly went airborne, nailing several of his high-flying maneuvers before tagging in Hardy, who continued to work on Henry. Bourne and Kozlov barely got any time to fight one another, with Kozlov inflicting most of the damage on Hardy instead when he did get tagged in. But when he tagged out, Hardy used the opportunity to bring Evan in, who hit a Diving Frankensteiner on Henry before hitting the Shooting Sydal Press for the win. Bourne couldn't celebrate though, as Kozlov tackled him as soon as the bell rang, but Bourne managed to fight him off with Hardy, forcing the ECW Champion to retreat, and allowing the former champ and the current challenger to stand tall in the ring as the show went off the air.