Written by Killa Kev

The teaser for ECW is suggesting that there is already trouble between CM Punk and the New Breed. Interesting that they're already spoiling that. ECW opens with the recap of last week's main event between Elijah Burke and Rob Van Damn, where Punk slides a chair into the ring, but it appears that he blatantly threw it in too far, allowing RVD to grab the chair and take out Burke with it. Punk apologized afterwards, but how sincere was he?

We then cut to the back as Punk watched that footage with the New Breed. Punk grimaces his face, turns to his fellow New Breed members, and says that he needs to apologize. But not for trying to be a leader, not for telling them to think for themselves, and not for telling them to get back up when they fall down. Punk wants to apologize for what happened with Burke, but that is now in the past, tonight's 8-man elimination match is tonight and the New Breed can make history. Punk shakes hands with everybody - EXCEPT Elijah Burke! He stares him down, then walks right off. Burke can't believe what just happened. Punk then pops into camera view with a big grin, slaps Burke on the back, and says he's just messing with him, then walks off again without shaking Burke's hand. Into the arena, Joey Styles says this WrestleMania 23 rematch for the main event keeps changing by the minute.

ECW Champion Bobby Lashley vs. Umaga (w/ Armando Alejandro Estrada) (non-title match)

We watch Umaga & Estrada enter first. We recap Umaga's match on RAW last night where Umaga helped Vince & Shane McMahon defeat UK wrestler Robbie Brookside. Lashley's music hits next, he walks through his pyro, inhales and exhales the smoke, goes down to the ring, warms up, leaps to the apron and more pyros. Umaga is staring Lashley down like a piece of meat. Lashley poses on the turnbuckles. We cut to Vince McMahon watching the match from the back. Eventually the referee gets them in the middle, Umaga & Lashley stare each other down as the bell rings, Umaga sticks out his tongue and slaps Lashley in the face. Lashley fires back with a dozen or so right hands, Umaga shoves him off. Lashely charges with a clothesline, Umaga dumps him over the top turnbuckle, Lashley hangs on. Estrda tries to pull Lashley off the apron, Lashley kicks him off, but Umaga knocks him off the aprong onto the floor. Umaga gets out of the ring, grabs Lashley, and throws him head-first into the steel ringsteps. Umaga clears off an announcers table, goes to grab Lashley, they trade blows, but Umaga gets the upper-hand. Umaga rolls into the ring to break the count. Lashley gets up on the apron, Umaga tries to take him out, Lashley pulls his head down on the ropes. Lashley climbs up to the top turnbuckles, tries to deliver a clothesline, but Umaga hits him in the cut. Umaga picks up Lashley and hits the Samoan Drop, then lays in a series of punches on him. Umaga goes to the middle turnbuckle, goes for the diving headbutt, but Lashley rolls out of the way, Umaga hits the mat, and both men are down.

The referee starts a standing 10-count, both men up on their knees at the 7-count and start trading blows. Fans booing loudly with Umaga's punches, cheering loudly for Lashley's punches. Lashley gets the upper hand with a flurry of jabs, off the ropes for a big punch, but Umaga with an uppercut of his won to take Lashley down. Umaga goes for the Samoan Spike, Lashley ducks it and clotheslines Umaga out of the ring. Estrada gets in the ring, attacks Lashley from behind, and the ref calls a DQ. Lashley throws Estrada in the corner, kicks him down. Umaga gets back up on the apron, Lashley runs over to throws him off. Mr. McMahon comes down to the ring and holds Umaga back. Lashley picks up Estrada, throws him into the corner with a Beil Throw, then hits a spear, then picks up Estrada on his shoulders, looks at Mr. McMahon, and tosses Estrada out of the ring towards him. Lashley grabs his belt, raises it high, then tells Mr. McMahon & Umaga to come and take it. Mr. McMahon pushes Umaga to the back as we go to our first commercial.

We're back from commercial, Tazz tells us that Estrada is undergoing medical attention after Lashley tossed him out. Styles says that even if Estrada is taken out of this weekend's PPV, the odds are not in Lashley's favor at WWE Backlash. We then segue into another promo for "The Condemned", debuting Friday. We then cut backstage to Burke complaining to the rest of the New Breed. He tells them that they have a problem, he thinks they made a mistake about bringing Punk into the New Breed. Marcus Cor Von cuts him off and said that THEY didn't make the mistake, BURKE made the mistake. Burke says that he knows he made the mistake, but don't they think that Punk slid that chair in too far? Kevin Thorn cuts him off and says that Burke ASKED for the chair. Burke starts to talk again and explain how he's going to lead the New Breed to victory tonight, this time Matt Striker cuts him off, saying that he knows Burke is upset about last week, but that Punk is just stepping up and trying to help. Burke is almost flabberghasted, then CM Punk walks back into the room, throws his arm over Burke's shoulder and asks what's up. Burke walks off as we go to our next commercial break.

Back from the commercial, Snitsky is making his ring entrance first. We recap two weeks ago as Snitsky interrupts the Extreme Expose and corners Layla El in the corner until Balls Mahoney came in to save her. Snitsky then attacked Mahoney with a kicks to Mahoney's head, right through a chair. Back to the arena, Balls Mahoney is making his entrance. Balls climbs into the ring, we get right to the bell as these two men stare each other down. HOLY FUCK the face acne is BAD! Snitsky grabs Balls and throws him down. Mahoney shakes it up, tries to bounce off the ropes with a shoulderblock, he bounces off Snitsky. Snitsky lays in some overhand punches, then pikcs up Mahoney in a gutwrench and throws him over the top turnbuckle, then kicks him in the guts to knock him off. Snitsky pulls Mahoney up by the hair, locks in a double underhook butterfly and throws Mahoney in the corner. Mahoney tries to fire back with a right, but Snitsky takes him out with his own clothesline. He picks up Mahoney, lines him up, kicks him in the head with the big boot, and then covers for the win. Snitsky then stomps around the ring and looks angry as the referee checks on Mahoney. He goes after Mahoney again, but the referee covers him to protect him. Snitsky exits the ring as we recap the highlights.

Backstage, CM Punk is telling the Striker, Thorn & Cor Von that this is revenge for tonight, he's glad he joined the New Breed and that tonight the face of history will change, and it's because of all of them. Burke walks back into the room, wants to know what is going on. CM Punk says he's just firing up the New Breed for their match tonight, asked if Burke was ready. Burke says he's been training all night and warming up. Punk slaps Burke on the shoulder again, and that it's time to head to the ring. Punk walks off, Burke stares on in disbelief as we go to commercial.

We recap Umaga vs. Lashley from earlier in the evening, replaying Estrada getting tossed out of the ring several times. We then recap the current line-up for WWE Backlash. Then we go to our main event with 25 minutes left in the show.

The ECW Originals enter first, taking their time posing for the fans. Sabu is wearing a neckbrace. The New Breed enter next, with Elijah Burke making it a point to come out first to appear to be leading them out. CM Punk comes out last. We go to commercial. We come back, everybody is still milling in the ring. CM Punk is in the ring, looking to wrestle, Elijah Burke goes over and taunts Sabu. It looks like it is a 5-on-4 battle. Rob Van Dam wants to start first and wants CM Punk. Elijah Burke gets on the mic and stops Punk. He says that he wants tonight to be a fair fight, and he tells Punk to take a seat, then points to a corner. Punk stares him down, then gets out of the ring as Burke is at ringside and pulls out a seat for him. Punk stands at ringside as the bell rings and Burke gets in, locking up with Tommy Dreamer. Dreamer with a waistlock, Burke with a go-behind, Dreamer reverses and nails a side takedown. Burke works his way back up, elbows out, shouldertackle off the ropes, goes off the ropes again, floatover, and Dreamer with a pair of bodyslams on Burke, followed by a NASTY jab. Dreamer drags Burke over to the corner, tags in Sabu, picks up Sabu and bodyslams Sabu onto Burke. Sabu covers for a two-count. Sabu shoves Burke off the ropes, throws him down, hits a legdrops, picks him up, hangs Burke over the top rope, tags in Sandman, Sandman with a big legdrop off the top turnbuckle. Sandman puts Burke in a corner, slap to the chest, whips him to the opposite corner, hits a flapjack off the rebound, Sandman goes up top again, goes for a Rolling Rock back bodysplash, but Burke moves. Burke pulls Sandman by the pants and gets a pin.

Sabu gets in, but Burke knocks him down, drags him over to his corner, tags in Matt Striker. Striker whips Sabu off the ropes, Sabu ducks a clothesline, moonsault off the middle rope and hits a cross body block, covers Striker, two-count. Sabu tags in RVD, RVD picks up Sabu and legdrops him onto Striker. RVD then goes over and shows off in front of the New Breed, goes back over to Striker, hits a windmill kick on Striker in the corner, then charges again and hits a BIG monkeyflip on Striker. RVD leaps onto the top turnbuckle, Cor Von comes over to interrupt him, ref breaks it up. RVD geos back up top again, but Striker hits the ropes to knock RVD off and crotches him on the top turnbuckle. Striker goes up for a superplex, punches, RVD fires back, RVD with a sunset flip into a powerbomb off the top turnbuckle, RVD covers, two-count. RVD goes for the split-leg moonsault, covers and gets the pin, Striker is eliminated.

Cor Von gets in and attacks RVD from behind, hammers on the back, hooks a snap suplex, covers, one-count. Cor Von picks up RVD and headbutts him into a corner. Cor Von kicks RVD in the legs, picks him up, lays in some rights until referee Scott Armstrong breaks it. RVD takes opportunity to fire back, Cor Von cuts him off with a knee to the gut, tries to headbutt him in the opposite corner, RVD puts a foot up to stop it, back elbow smash, cross body block off the middle turnbuckle, covers Cor Von, two count. RVD tags in Sabu, Sabu fires with rights on Cor Von, armbar, kick to the gut, legdrop, then into a modified Camel Clutch on Cor Von. Cor Von is near his corner, Elijah Burke looking to get in the ring, referee cuts him off, which lets RVD run in with a baseball slide on Cor Von's face. The referee chases RVD off, Burke comes in and hits Sabu in his neck. Cor Von takes advantage, choking Sabu, shoving him out of the ring, then attacking him a few times before puttins Sabu back in, then nailing Sabu with a BIG right. RVD comes down to stop Cor Von. Corvon gets back in the ring, front facelock on Sabu, tags in Burke.

Burke with a big kick to Sabu's neck, covers, two-count. Burke tags in Cor Von, Cor Von kicks Sabu in his neck, then punches away on th eneckbrace. Cor Von with a front facelock into a swinging neckbreaker, Cor Von covers and gets a two-count. Cor Von punches Sabu into the corner, Sabu tries to fight back, but Cor Von cuts him off, whips him to the opposite corner, charges, Sabu gets a knee up in Cor Von's face, moonsault off the middle rope into a cross body block, cover, two count. Sabu picks up Cor Von, Cor von shoves him off the ropes, sets up for a suplex, Sabu elbows out, bounces off the ropes, Cor Von with a back elbow smash. Cor Von whips Sabu off the ropes and hits The Pounce! Sabu is clinched up on the mat, Cor Von hooks the leg and pins Sabu.

Tommy Dreame rgets right in and fires away with lefts and rights, goes for a bulldog and nails it. Dreamer picks up Cor Von, headbutts him in the corner, then whips him out of the corner, Cor Von reverses and we go to commercial. We come back and Burke is throwing Dreamer into the corner and wails aways. We recap the break, Burke and THorn hit a double elbow smash on Dreamer. Thorn tags Cor Von in, Cor Von with a punmch to the back on Dreamer, whips him off the ropes, Dreamer ducks a clothesline, tries for a Lou Thesz Press, Cor Von catches him and hits a belly-to-belly suplex. Dreamer rolls out of the ring, Cor Von chases him, picks him up and hits a reverse atomic drop on the barrier. The referee gets out and tells Cor Von that he's disqualified for using an illegal move! Kevin Thorn gets out and rolls Dreamer in the ring, hits a trio of elbows to the back, then locks in a crossface submission. Dreamer gets up, elbows out, but Thorn hits him in the back, then a powerbomb, Thorn hooks the leg, two-count. CM Punk at ringside is telling Thorn to make him pay. Thorn with a series of kneedrops on Dreamer's face, then tags in Elijah Burke. Burke pulls the right kneepad down and hits a kneedrop on Dreamer's face. Dreamer tries to crawl over to his corner, Burke cuts him off, sucker punches RVD, then tags in Thorn. Thorn hits a big splash on Dreamer in the corner as the referee is trying to push RVD back out of the ring. Thorn pulls out Dreamer, tries for a short-arm clothesline, Dreamer ducks it, hooks on a DDT, and pins Kevin Thorn.

Burke quickly gets in the ring, ready to hit Dreamer from behind. Burke nails him with the Eliajah Express, covers and pins Dreamer. RVD in, punches Burke, whips him off the ropes, hits a dropkick. Burke crawls to a corner and begs for mercy, then grabs RVD by the tights and throws him into the ringpost. Bruke pulls him out and throws him back into the ringpost again. Burke pins RVD, but puts his feet on the ropes, ref breaks it. Burke tries it again, ref doesn't even count, threatens to DQ burke. Burke with a snap mare takeover, then locks in an armbar submission in the middle of the ring. RVD powers his way back up, punches Burke in the gut to break it, Burke tries to kick, RVD catches it, RVD ties for a windmill kick, Burke sidesteps it and hits a clothesline. RVD crawls into a corner, Burke goes over and kicks him down, tosses him out, covers with a lateral press, two-count. Burke hooks RVD into a powerbomb, but RVD tosses him over his shoulder. Burke gets up, RVD knocks him down with a pair of clothesline and then a superkick out of nowhere. RVD picks up Burke, but Burke throws a thumb in RVD's eye. whips RVD off the ropes, reverses, Burke hangs on to the ropes, RVD charges, Burke with a kick but he gets whipped outside on the apron, Burke tries to slingshot back in, RVD with a spin kick that knocks Burke off the ropes. RVD tries for a suicide dive over the top, but the referee cuts him off. The fans boo the ref.

Burke gets back up and staggers towards the ring. CM Punk stands up behind him, BLASTS Burke with a brain kick, and then calmly sits back in his seat. RVD rolls out, sees that Burke is out cold, looks over at Punk, then picks up Burke's lifeless body and rolls him back into the ring. RVD goes to the top turnbuckle for the Five Star Frogsplash, nails it, crawls over slowly to Burke, hooks the leg and gets the pin.

The referee raises RVD's hand, RVD bails out of the ring quickly and leaves. CM Punk stands up, rubs his chin, leaps up on the apron, then steps in the ring, standing over Elijah Burke's body. The fans chant for Punk as Punk picks up Burke by the head, sets him up on his shoulders, then nails the Go To Sleep. Punk spreads his hands out and looks down on Burke, then sarcastically says he's sorry several times. We recap the end of the match. Punk then steps out of the ring and pounds his chest as the fans cheer, he leaves as we fade out for the evening.