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Post by nerdkiller4life on Dec 29, 2007 23:06:32 GMT -5
I was wondering. If you bought ECW from Vince, would you accually make it as good a product as it was back in the 90's? I mean, we never seem to get any extreme rules any more and if I had a spare couple of million, I'd bring back somethin' like the bring your own weapons nights or the barbed wire ropes matchs for very rare occasions. Just let me know what you would do to make ECW a better product if you bought it off the dirty hands of Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
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Post by Square on Dec 29, 2007 23:07:51 GMT -5
Probbally have a large debt to pay
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Post by twiggy101 on Dec 29, 2007 23:08:55 GMT -5
It probably won't be any better because it would probably only have me in it's roster.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Dec 29, 2007 23:09:22 GMT -5
I'd let the past be the past.
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Post by Leaving after 1,600 on Dec 29, 2007 23:12:30 GMT -5
I'd put out a bunch of old school DVDs of ECW uneddited, thats it.
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Post by Dick Foley on Dec 29, 2007 23:13:41 GMT -5
What would be the point to "buy" ECW. The only thing of worth that ECW has now is the tapes and I know Vince won't sell those. You would be better off to start your own promotion with RVD, Sandman, Jerry Lynn, Tommy Dreamer, The Dudleys and Joey Styles. Then hire a bunch of indy guys and you might be as successful as the real ECW was.
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Post by Janitor From Mars on Dec 29, 2007 23:38:19 GMT -5
Probbally have a large debt to pay Doubtful. Whoever bought ECW would have more competition in ROH, Chikara, Japan and other indies (TNA is a non-factor here). Plus, they'd have to find talent that's not locked under contract with the WWE. I guess in the case of the original ECW, the past is best left buried.
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Post by Janitor From Mars on Dec 29, 2007 23:39:46 GMT -5
What would be the point to "buy" ECW. The only thing of worth that ECW has now is the tapes and I know Vince won't sell those. You would be better off to start your own promotion with RVD, Sandman, Jerry Lynn, Tommy Dreamer, The Dudleys and Joey Styles. Then hire a bunch of indy guys and you might be as successful as the real ECW was. Tod Gordon is involved with Pro Wrestling Unplugged, which has some of the original ECW spirit if not competitors going for it.
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Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on Dec 29, 2007 23:45:05 GMT -5
If I bought ECW, the first thing I would do is create a Math Olympics championship and give the title to Mike Knox.
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Post by tarheelfan on Dec 30, 2007 0:05:35 GMT -5
What would be the point to "buy" ECW. The only thing of worth that ECW has now is the tapes and I know Vince won't sell those. You would be better off to start your own promotion with RVD, Sandman, Jerry Lynn, Tommy Dreamer, The Dudleys and Joey Styles. Then hire a bunch of indy guys and you might be as successful as the real ECW was. I agree. Like I have said in another post ECW in the WWE is not the same as the original ECW. ECW in the WWE is just another Shotgun Saturday Night type show. And IMHO ECW is not really a true promotion anymore but just a token show by the WWE which could one day be dropped by the WWE on the spot. And then what of ECW?
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Post by Bobby Womack on Dec 30, 2007 0:08:07 GMT -5
most people would probably push a bunch of internet-favorites and go bankrupt within a month
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 30, 2007 0:24:21 GMT -5
Then hire a bunch of indy guys and you might be as successful as the real ECW was. So not very, then? I mean, really, it's hard to call a company that went bankrupt like that a success, regardless of the nature of their product...
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Dec 30, 2007 0:33:12 GMT -5
Probably hire Heyman and run a short feud initially with PWG, build off the real life animosity between Gordon and Heyman. Make it seem like a complete shoot to start, kind of like the nWo. Have someone like Sabu just show up one day and destroy a few guys in the ring, have him grab the mic and say "E...C...W" and just walk off.
After that, probably run the promotion as what it was around the mid 90's. If I can keep Heyman, I would, if not hire Raven to book. It'd probably be the slightly use of more chairs than ROH, ROH. However, I'd have much more intricate storylines and build rivalries where it makes you believe each guy wants to tear the others head off.
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Post by Dynamite Kid on Dec 30, 2007 5:00:48 GMT -5
I'd do what ECW was supposed to do - showcase new talent that needed to be shown, make stars out of nobodies, and have as much athleticism as barbed wire. You can do this by moving forward as much as you can by living in the past.
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Post by The only Buzz Sawyer mark ever on Dec 30, 2007 8:19:03 GMT -5
I'd book Abdullah the Butcher vs The Iron Sheik vs New Jack vs Pogo The Clown in a barbed-wire no ropes time bomb fatal four-way with flaming tables for the World title.
Or just get Big Daddy V to squash some jabroni every week.
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