How ECW Changed EVERYTHING!!!!!
Posted by admin admin on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
How ECW Changed EVERYTHING!!!!!!
We all now ECW revolutionized Extreme Wrestling and brought forth the edgier storylines and more real life characters but I want to just speak about ECW and how I feel looking back at it more than 10 years after its demise. *I dont consider 2006-2010 as ECW or apart of the history*.
August 27th 1994. A Night that will forever stand in history. The night ECW became Extreme and ECW officially split from the NWA becoming its own intity. The night The Franchise Shane Douglas took the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship and threw it down and proclaimed himself the ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World. Through the rest of that year and from then on until its closing in 2001 ECW had something about it that now-a-days you don't find in the wrestling business. ECW was the one program you knew you wouldnt be disappointed when you watched. The one program you knew wouldnt let you down and would give you some good wrestling and bloody brawls. I could consider WWF Attitude as one of those programs that you Never Know What Will Happen but ECW always to me had a different feel. You knew if you saw Rob Van Dam on the card you was going to get your moneys worth. And if RVD wasnt on that card you was still gonna get your moneys worth with Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Raven, Super Crazy and so many others who walked through the doors of ECW at one time or another. ECW was a promotion that should have lived that should be around today and there is plenty of proof of to how. But then again on the other plate there is plenty of proof of why ECW had to die when it did because there was no TV spot. When ECW went bankrupt they had 2,000.00. But a show that sold out almost every night going under seemed weird. I will always remember ECW as that show that takes your breath away and never allows you to catch it. Its the show that either you sat infront of your tv/computer or was in that audience and knew you was going to get what you payed for and then some. Everything seemed (as a fan anyways) to be going fine in 2000-01. YES there were plenty of online rumors but that was in the days when most of what was on the newsites was bullshit. *hasnt changed much either lol* ECW seemed stronger than ever in those last few years. The Last PPV was well put together and had they had the March PPV it would have tooken place on my 17th birthday. But ECW folded and like every good thing - it eventually ends. Had Heyman had the money of a Vince McMahon or a Ted Turner ECW would be here to this very day I could say safely but due to other circumstances it had to end. And then we come to the year 2005 when finally we had the final ECW event (or so we thought) to finally end the legacy the RIGHT way. The PPV went well and alot better than I would have expected. This is where I wish I could end but unfortunatly I won't because the year 2006 came around an they decided to do One Last Stand II which was nothing even close to the legacy of ECW. You could tell the crowd wanted ECW not WWE SUPERSTARS we wanted ECW EXTREMISTS!! Thats why Randy Orton and John Cena got booed out of the building that night while RVD and others got the biggest pops ive heard in the Hammerstein. ECW was to reboot under the WWE franchise. This is where the legacy of ECW was almost tainted. You know The ONS 2005 should have and was the correct sendoff to ECW to say goodbye to the fans and the ECW name. Now sure I am a ECW mark for life and I will defend ECW *atleast the original one* forever. ECW rebooted with SOME of the Originals and some new talent. They had a couple of alright shows. Nothing Original ECW but they was ok. Then week by week it got worse and worse. Heyman left. It went downhill FAST from there. So in 2010 The ECW brand is retired *finally* and they do a even more shittier show. TNA even got in on trying to sell the ECW name for some cash and did HardCORE Justice 2010 which was a mediocre ECW wannabe reunion show. I wont deny the wrestlers put on great matches but I will say that I will think this forever since 2005. ECW is gone. There is more than 500 episodes you can use for memories but a NEW ECW? Extreme Reunion? Rising? whatever? I think this all just needs to be put to a end. YES Extreme Rising is a draw because people DO miss Extreme Wrestling. People DO miss shows that are exicting, action packed, bloody, gory. People miss this stuff and will buy tickets to see it I wont deny that. I will though say that each Reunion show. Each Hardcore Homecoming. Each of these shows are tainting the history of ECW. Sandman isnt the same person he was 10 years ago. Raven isnt either. Neither is Sabu or any of them to be honest. They have all "grown up" or sadly died off. But if you want to see a show that will blow your mind just pop in a old ECW show from 1995 or 1996. Pop some popcorn and watch the originals in their primes when they werent shells of their former selves. ---Thats just MY 2 Cents---
We all now ECW revolutionized Extreme Wrestling and brought forth the edgier storylines and more real life characters but I want to just speak about ECW and how I feel looking back at it more than 10 years after its demise. *I dont consider 2006-2010 as ECW or apart of the history*.
August 27th 1994. A Night that will forever stand in history. The night ECW became Extreme and ECW officially split from the NWA becoming its own intity. The night The Franchise Shane Douglas took the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship and threw it down and proclaimed himself the ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World. Through the rest of that year and from then on until its closing in 2001 ECW had something about it that now-a-days you don't find in the wrestling business. ECW was the one program you knew you wouldnt be disappointed when you watched. The one program you knew wouldnt let you down and would give you some good wrestling and bloody brawls. I could consider WWF Attitude as one of those programs that you Never Know What Will Happen but ECW always to me had a different feel. You knew if you saw Rob Van Dam on the card you was going to get your moneys worth. And if RVD wasnt on that card you was still gonna get your moneys worth with Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Raven, Super Crazy and so many others who walked through the doors of ECW at one time or another. ECW was a promotion that should have lived that should be around today and there is plenty of proof of to how. But then again on the other plate there is plenty of proof of why ECW had to die when it did because there was no TV spot. When ECW went bankrupt they had 2,000.00. But a show that sold out almost every night going under seemed weird. I will always remember ECW as that show that takes your breath away and never allows you to catch it. Its the show that either you sat infront of your tv/computer or was in that audience and knew you was going to get what you payed for and then some. Everything seemed (as a fan anyways) to be going fine in 2000-01. YES there were plenty of online rumors but that was in the days when most of what was on the newsites was bullshit. *hasnt changed much either lol* ECW seemed stronger than ever in those last few years. The Last PPV was well put together and had they had the March PPV it would have tooken place on my 17th birthday. But ECW folded and like every good thing - it eventually ends. Had Heyman had the money of a Vince McMahon or a Ted Turner ECW would be here to this very day I could say safely but due to other circumstances it had to end. And then we come to the year 2005 when finally we had the final ECW event (or so we thought) to finally end the legacy the RIGHT way. The PPV went well and alot better than I would have expected. This is where I wish I could end but unfortunatly I won't because the year 2006 came around an they decided to do One Last Stand II which was nothing even close to the legacy of ECW. You could tell the crowd wanted ECW not WWE SUPERSTARS we wanted ECW EXTREMISTS!! Thats why Randy Orton and John Cena got booed out of the building that night while RVD and others got the biggest pops ive heard in the Hammerstein. ECW was to reboot under the WWE franchise. This is where the legacy of ECW was almost tainted. You know The ONS 2005 should have and was the correct sendoff to ECW to say goodbye to the fans and the ECW name. Now sure I am a ECW mark for life and I will defend ECW *atleast the original one* forever. ECW rebooted with SOME of the Originals and some new talent. They had a couple of alright shows. Nothing Original ECW but they was ok. Then week by week it got worse and worse. Heyman left. It went downhill FAST from there. So in 2010 The ECW brand is retired *finally* and they do a even more shittier show. TNA even got in on trying to sell the ECW name for some cash and did HardCORE Justice 2010 which was a mediocre ECW wannabe reunion show. I wont deny the wrestlers put on great matches but I will say that I will think this forever since 2005. ECW is gone. There is more than 500 episodes you can use for memories but a NEW ECW? Extreme Reunion? Rising? whatever? I think this all just needs to be put to a end. YES Extreme Rising is a draw because people DO miss Extreme Wrestling. People DO miss shows that are exicting, action packed, bloody, gory. People miss this stuff and will buy tickets to see it I wont deny that. I will though say that each Reunion show. Each Hardcore Homecoming. Each of these shows are tainting the history of ECW. Sandman isnt the same person he was 10 years ago. Raven isnt either. Neither is Sabu or any of them to be honest. They have all "grown up" or sadly died off. But if you want to see a show that will blow your mind just pop in a old ECW show from 1995 or 1996. Pop some popcorn and watch the originals in their primes when they werent shells of their former selves. ---Thats just MY 2 Cents---