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Post by eDemento2099 on Apr 10, 2010 16:04:06 GMT -5
ECW would still be in business if Heyman never ran a show out of the Northeast, did maybe 4 PPV's a year, and brought in some outside help for creative ideas around 1998. Heck, they might even be legit competition for the WWE if they had stuck to that plan until around the mid-2000's. I agree with everything you said - everything except the part about Heyman needing outside help for creative ideas. Heyman was one of the most brilliant bookers in the history of wrestling. Sure, perhaps the product would have been better if collaborating with others allowed Heyman to take a bit of a load off. However, if Heyman needed help with anything, he needed someone to manage the company's expenses. ECW's creative direction was already top-notch circa 1998 (Which is the year in which Heatwave '98 - arguably the company's best-ever PPV - went down).
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Post by Agent P on Apr 10, 2010 16:06:11 GMT -5
Paul already used several of the guys to help him out creatively
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Post by mrjl on Apr 10, 2010 16:21:14 GMT -5
ECW would still be in business if Heyman never ran a show out of the Northeast, did maybe 4 PPV's a year, and brought in some outside help for creative ideas around 1998. Heck, they might even be legit competition for the WWE if they had stuck to that plan until around the mid-2000's. I agree with everything you said - everything except the part about Heyman needing outside help for creative ideas. Heyman was one of the most brilliant bookers in the history of wrestling. Sure, perhaps the product would have been better if collaborating with others allowed Heyman to take a bit of a load off. However, if Heyman needed help with anything, he needed someone to manage the company's expenses. ECW's creative direction was already top-notch circa 1998 (Which is the year in which Heatwave '98 - arguably the company's best-ever PPV - went down). someone else on creative might have helped his obsession with his vision, apologize for the phrasing, which was so intense that he shot himself in the foot by doing things like insulting TNN when they were airing his show. I've always thought they could have made some money by sending out the ECW champ or TV. After all, everyone talked about how RVD practically had the TV title equal to the world title. Do like the NWA sending the champ to affiilated promotions basically.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 11, 2010 0:02:04 GMT -5
ECW would still be in business if Heyman never ran a show out of the Northeast, did maybe 4 PPV's a year, and brought in some outside help for creative ideas around 1998. Heck, they might even be legit competition for the WWE if they had stuck to that plan until around the mid-2000's. I agree with everything you said - everything except the part about Heyman needing outside help for creative ideas. Heyman was one of the most brilliant bookers in the history of wrestling. Sure, perhaps the product would have been better if collaborating with others allowed Heyman to take a bit of a load off. However, if Heyman needed help with anything, he needed someone to manage the company's expenses. ECW's creative direction was already top-notch circa 1998 (Which is the year in which Heatwave '98 - arguably the company's best-ever PPV - went down). I'm sorry but I'm just not buying it. Now he definitely needed a business manager to help relieve at that end of the company. But that aside, it's obvious by 1999 that he was out of ideas and running on fumes and a reputation creatively. Everybody gets burnt out at some point, no matter how "brilliant" they are. I believe some new thinkers backstage would've really helped out the very stale product they were putting out at the time.
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Post by Agent P on Apr 11, 2010 7:13:27 GMT -5
Paul Heyman was the "Head of Creative" for lack of a better term, for 7 years when ECW went out of business. No one can stay at their best for that long without taking a break.
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