How would these guys have fared in original ECW?

[TGM]

Assuming they didn't sign with the WWF / WCW like they did in real life and opted to go to ECW.


Paul Wight / Big Show / The Giant
Jeff Jarrett
HHH / Terra Ryzing
Steve Regal
Dustin Runnels
Ahmed Johnson
Scott Hall and Kevin Nash (I know Hall did a few appearances)

I feel Paul Wight would have built up an amazing aura in ECW.

[THE FVNKER]

Apr 18, 2019 16:17:28 GMT -5 TGM said:

Assuming they didn't sign with the WWF / WCW like they did in real life and opted to go to ECW.


Paul Wight / Big Show / The Giant
Jeff Jarrett
HHH / Terra Ryzing
Steve Regal
Dustin Runnels
Ahmed Johnson
Scott Hall and Kevin Nash (I know Hall did a few appearances)

I feel Paul Wight would have built up an amazing aura in ECW.

I'm assuming we're talking the Extreme, not Eastern version here.

Big Show - He was still really green here, but totally could've been made to work with Paul's help. Probably a precursor to Bam Bam. This would be big for them since it would basically be his first big promotion debut.

Jarett - Literally no idea. The country singer gimmick would've bombed I imagine though. Maybe he would've broke out and became a Stone Cold though.

Dustin Runnels - Probably would be the best fit. Solid mid card hand to have around. The Goldust thing would honestly probably work too, but with that crowd they'd want to see him get demolished all the time.

Ahmed - Pair him with Jack and Mustafa and try to be the Nation of Domination before they do it in WWF, and it would be a hit.

Outsiders - I cant remember how they reacted to Hall, but considering these two are the total antagonist(s) in ECW's us vs. them narrative, I can't imagine it going well.

EDIT: Forgot about Triple H. Would've foundered I'm sure.

[Deleted]

I could see any of those guys doing well EXCEPT the Outsiders. They acted like they were too big time for WCW, so they wouldn't have stood a chance in ECW.

[jason1980s]

Terra Ryzing would befriend Paul Heyman and when Paul Heyman moved to WWE in 2001, Terra would have followed with Paul. He quickly befriends any number of McMahons, marries Stephanie and probably winds up with a cut of Paul Heyman's Brock Lesnar action as well. Shawn Michaels is probably not seen as much in today's WWE and Chyna winds up living into her old age.

Steve Regal, as good a guy I believe him to be now, would have been more heavily using drugs and probably stiffed the wrong newcomer and winds up paralyzed or dead from an assault by his opponent.

Jeff Jarrett would have come in with a high and mighty attitude and would probably have been thrown out of the building on his first day like Buff Bagwell but in a shoot version, not a work.

[Hit Girl]

Terra would have married Paul Heyman.

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

Apr 18, 2019 16:17:28 GMT -5 TGM said:

Assuming they didn't sign with the WWF / WCW like they did in real life and opted to go to ECW.


Paul Wight / Big Show / The Giant
Jeff Jarrett
HHH / Terra Ryzing
Steve Regal
Dustin Runnels
Ahmed Johnson
Scott Hall and Kevin Nash (I know Hall did a few appearances)

I feel Paul Wight would have built up an amazing aura in ECW.

Paul Wight, providing he didn't get lazy and out of shape would have been over the same way 911 was, but he'd actually be able to work a match.

Jeff Jarrett doing an edgier version of his slap nuts gimmick would have gotten him some good heat. He could have had some fun brawling matches with a lot the top guys in 98-00

I can't see Triple H doing much of note before leaving after a few months. If it were 95-96 his promos and ring work would have been shit on.

Regal would have been mega over with his stiff style, really in any era of ECW.

Dustin would have been great in ECW, really being able to push the envelope with a Goldust style gimmick. However, with out a gimmick he wouldn't have fared too well.

I think a short stint from Ahmed would have gone down well.

Hall and Nash, if they'd gone to ECW instead of WCW and done a takeover angle they would have gotten some great heat.

[James Fabiano]

"How they reacted to Hall" well they loved him of course. Just like ECW did when any big name came in, just about. ANYONE will pop for a major star, anywhere.

Ahmed brings to mind bringing in JBL too. They worked some bloody matches in the post-GWF Dallas promotions.

[The Barber]

There's no way in the world that Kevin Nash stays when he gets his first bounced check.

[Deleted]

Big Show - Awesome in 2006 as ECW Champ so I see no reason why it wouldn’t be even better in the 90s.

Jeff Jarrett - Nah, they already had Shane Douglas.

HHH / Terra Ryzing - Rejected lol.

Steve Regal - Up there with Malenko/Jericho/Benoit. A respected workhorse who would have eventually ended up in WCW or WWF.

Dustin Runnels - I could see his half Dustin/half Goldust gimmick working there. But he was always destined for WWF.

Ahmed Johnson - Rejected. The ECW crowd aren’t gonna take to a generic hoss like that.

Scott Hall and Kevin Nash - Nah. They were more suited to WCW and WWF. They just wouldn’t belong.

[toodarkmark]

Everyone of them would be super over. If Hall and Nash worked ECW, they would have been 1995 911 with skills, and Hall, with his go f yourself personality would haven super over.

If they were there, there would be a reason, and they would be pushed to the top. Saying they wouldnt care or have the attitude means they wouldnt have gone there in the first place.

Ahmed Johnson and Jarret would get more over in ECW then Hall and Nash? Ridiculous.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Let’s take into account their age.

Wight would’ve still been in training so he wouldn’t have been able to have any sort of acceptable match for the ecw crowd, Show by his own admission didn’t know how to lock up in wcw. He would’ve been in the 911 role.

Triple H was still very young and wasn’t ready, the ecw arena would’ve killed him because he was a pretty boy. Kinda like how hard Tommy Dreamer had it at the beginning.

Ahmed would’ve been booed out of the building.

I can only see Regal doing well there during that time.

[rnrk supports BLM]

ECW succeeded (to the extent that it succeeded at all) by finding an appealing way to book the sort of bottom-of-the-barrel talent who were willing to slice their heads open for $0, not because it had an incredible roster. Guys like Sandman and New Jack wound up there because WWF/WCW wouldn't give them the time of day, and that wasn't exactly a mistake on their parts.

Literally all of these guys could've done decently in ECW if they wanted to. The bigger obstacle would be keeping them around once the checks started bouncing.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Regal would be a mega over midcarder and if the promotion had made it to 2002 would have been their champion.

If he didn't get way worse into drugs.

[Joe Neglia]

Apr 18, 2019 16:53:03 GMT -5 @oldbaby said:

I could see any of those guys doing well EXCEPT the Outsiders. They acted like they were too big time for WCW, so they wouldn't have stood a chance in ECW.

I think that's exactly why they WOULD have worked in ECW. Heyman could have booked the hell out of that.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Apr 19, 2019 19:48:14 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Apr 18, 2019 16:53:03 GMT -5 @oldbaby said:

I could see any of those guys doing well EXCEPT the Outsiders. They acted like they were too big time for WCW, so they wouldn't have stood a chance in ECW.

I think that's exactly why they WOULD have worked in ECW. Heyman could have booked the hell out of that.

In a guest booker shoot, Raven laid out exactly what you said.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Apr 18, 2019 20:08:07 GMT -5 rnrk supports BLM said:

ECW succeeded (to the extent that it succeeded at all) by finding an appealing way to book the sort of bottom-of-the-barrel talent who were willing to slice their heads open for $0, not because it had an incredible roster.

Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Psicosis, 2 Cold Scorpio, Sabu, Rob Van Dam, Lance Storm.....

They hardly became what they did by being a total garbage fed.

[Joe Neglia]

Heyman at his height could get any one of those names over.

[chronocross]

I think all would have been just fine, Sid was there for a few months in 99 and the dude was over like rover as Heyman knew to hide his weaknesses and play up to his strengths.

[Mozenrath]

Triple H is basically a Shane Douglas who swears less and is a much better wrestler, so I think he'd have probably been fine. He's also shrewd enough to where it'd have been easy for him to find a foothold.

I think Jarrett would have had more difficulty than any of the others, but if he just did his "don't piss me off" shtick earlier, I guess he'd have been alright. Not like ECW fans wouldn't eat up the guitar shots.

Regal would be in serious danger of overdosing, sad as it is to say.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Apr 19, 2019 21:03:49 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Triple H is basically a Shane Douglas who swears less and is a much better wrestler, so I think he'd have probably been fine. He's also shrewd enough to where it'd have been easy for him to find a foothold.

I think Jarrett would have had more difficulty than any of the others, but if he just did his "don't piss me off" shtick earlier, I guess he'd have been alright. Not like ECW fans wouldn't eat up the guitar shots.

Regal would be in serious danger of overdosing, sad as it is to say.

I disagree, at that time Trips was too young and green to have been on Douglas level, he started improving once he had better opponents and more dates in the wwf.

He would’ve never been able to improve in ecw when they were only working a couple shows a month, compared to the wwf where he worked almost every day every week.