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Post by celticjobber on Oct 17, 2013 0:53:31 GMT -5
The original. I'd rather forget about WWE's reboot, for the most part.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Oct 17, 2013 14:21:07 GMT -5
Eww. This thread is the equivalent of someone asking what they think of when they hear A Nightmare on Elm Street, and some people choose the shitty Rorschach version.
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Oct 17, 2013 15:38:21 GMT -5
I think of Vince wearing a doo-rag with the ECW title round his waist and Tommy Dreamer crying like a bitch.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 15:56:29 GMT -5
Why, I think of guys like Dave Batista and Andrew "Test" Martin, of course.
Honestly though, WWECW was a complete mess.
It started...okay. It was contrived, but your Balls Mahoneys, Roadkills and Sabus were still there and they did a fine job of trying to be as "hardcore" as they could without angering their new deities.
After that, it got worse. Vinny felt that the ratings weren't strong enough, so he started piping in every homegrown that he could. It was amazingly irritating and killed the faux authenticity of the show completely.
After that, it got okay again because someone somewhere had the clairvoyance to say "eff ECW" and then it began to grow as a new Sunday Night Heat without the exploitive ECW pretense.
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Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Oct 17, 2013 17:02:38 GMT -5
WWECW, mainly because I didn't start watching wrestling until ECW went out of business. Same. I started watching in 2008, and in fact WWECW's existence was pretty much how I started watching wrestling. I saw ECW on Sci Fi on the guide, and thought to myself "wait... isnt that the name of a wrestling company" (apparently I knew that much) "why is it on Sci Fi?" and ended up DVRing it. While I was watching it I saw a preview for the draft on RAW, which sounded interesting, so I recorded that too. And my interest in wrestling just kinda rolled on from there. So yeah ECW brings the WWE version to mind unless the context obviously is meant to indicate the original.
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 17, 2013 17:08:40 GMT -5
Given how good and consistent WWECW got in its latter years, its a shame it was saddled with a name that didn't really fit with it and might have turned potential fans off because it wasn't like the original ECW. Call it lame, but in my head I ended up having three ECW's: the interesting but occasional corny regional company (Eastern Championship Wrestling), the groundbreaking hardcore trailblazer (Extreme Championship Wrestling) and the at first shaky but eventually solid and simple WWE C Show (Excellent Championship Wrestling on Sci Fi).
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