What if ECW was cancelled?

[rra]

Imagine if Sci-Fi had terminated its contract with WWE over ECW, and say WWE decided to abolish ECW as a program/seperate promotion itself, what then?

Here's some ideas....

(1) The last feud, cooked in the last episodes and carried over perhaps into Smackdown!, where ECW champ CM Punk feuds with Tommy Dreamer.

The feud is, CM Punk slowly turns into his "Straight Edge" heel gimmick from ROH...how because of his righteous lifestyle is why he is champ, and will be the last ever ECW champion.....and Tommy Dreamer slugs him for becoming such a jackass.

It would be a brutal, almost a teaser of the old true ECW, where the last ECW Original brawls and smashes the more athletic, flexible, and ruthless Punk.

The first encounter, on a PPV, in a regular title match, Punk pins him clean...but only after using Dreamer's Singapore Cane behind the ref's back.

In the rematch, ideally on ECW's last episode and being the sole match of that night....its an Extreme Rulez Match, where after both men devastate each other and thrill the crowds, Dreamer prevails and wins the strap....and its retired, with Dreamer as the last ever ECW champion.

(2) Punk moves to RAW in the IC title division. Either he's been made humbled by Dreamer and returns to being a face, or stays a jackass heel. Hell, just imagine a Punk/Hardy program....

or, Mr. Kennedy if he could actually wrestle.

(3) Dreamer moves to Smackdown!, and becomes a jobber-to-the-stars in the US Heavyweight division.

(4) The ECW roster is split-up between the two other brands. While WWE will do the dumb thing and haul all the ECW nuggets over to RAW and leave the rest to SD!......

(5) The smart thing would be to make Chavo Guerrero a serious contender for the US Heavyweight strap, or at least help put MVP even more over.

(6) The Miz, Shelton Benjamin, and Big Daddy V move to SD!, and Elijah Burke moves to RAW.

[seano]

Knowing the WWE's luck, the cancellation would have been immediate.

If they had time, though....then knowing ECW's luck, the WWE would've immediately turned it into a RAW recap show.

[Loki]

Punk and Morrison are moved to the midcard in SmackDown. Some other guys stick around for a while, swinging on and off TV. Many will get fired.

[Cypress]

i would hate to see it happen, its a good show to break in the young prospects and re-build midcarders and jobbers going nowhere on RAW and SD

[Deleted]

It would've been combined with SmackDown, probably eventually dissolving the ECW brand.

We know this because the prospect of ECW's cancellation was one of the main reasons why WWE said that ECW wrestlers could appear on SmackDown, and vice versa.

[The Portable Stove]

rra said:

In the rematch, ideally on ECW's last episode and being the sole match of that night....its an Extreme Rulez Match, where after both men devastate each other and thrill the crowds, Dreamer prevails and wins the strap....and its retired, with Dreamer as the last ever ECW champion.

If this EVER happens, I'd want one thing to happen, and that would be for Dreamer to DDT Punk or whoever the champion would be onto a stop sign or something, while yes, screaming "ECW."

Now THAT would be an amazing note to go out on.

[krazysane]

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I would have to find something else to do on a Tuesday Night

[TheMediocreWarrior]

Put Battlestar reruns in its place, please.

Really, BSG is the only reason to watch Sci-Fi anymore.

[rra]

notmyproblem said:

rra said:

In the rematch, ideally on ECW's last episode and being the sole match of that night....its an Extreme Rulez Match, where after both men devastate each other and thrill the crowds, Dreamer prevails and wins the strap....and its retired, with Dreamer as the last ever ECW champion.

If this EVER happens, I'd want one thing to happen, and that would be for Dreamer to DDT Punk or whoever the champion would be onto a stop sign or something, while yes, screaming "ECW."

Now THAT would be an amazing note to go out on.

YES!

[Welfare Willis]

We find out ECW was just the imagination of a young autistic boy.

[BlackJackRobby]

If ECW is cancelled and no one hears it, did it ever get cancelled?

[bonedaddycool]

I would cry and cry and cry..........

[hutter]

korngold said:

We find out ECW was just the imagination of a young autistic boy.

But ECW had x-overs with Raw wrestlers and Smackdown wrestlers. Does that make them the dream of that boy as well? Lord, I hope so. We could luck out and wake up to a wrestling landscape that still has a Mid-South, Florida, World Class, AWA and Memphis promotion going strong.

I can dream, just like that autistic kid with his snowglobe. (and what a dumb way to end a series. WTF were they thinking?!?)

[Hiroshi Hase]

I'd feel indifferent.

[primetime110]

Sci-Fi would lose all 5 viewers. ;D