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Post by JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK on Jan 31, 2007 9:41:04 GMT -5
Paul Heyman had kept ECW afloat.... and instead of WWE buying out ECW..... ECW bought out WWE?
What wrestling be like now?
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Post by akkountent on Jan 31, 2007 9:52:40 GMT -5
I think the thing that people fail to realize about pro-wresting is the pure entertainment of it all. If people wanted to watch straight wrestling and in-ring action, they would tune into UFC, professional boxing or stay up until midnight or after to watch the college wrestling on ESPN. They thing that draws people to professinal wrestling is the storylines, the soap opera, and outlandish personalitis, etc. Even the old ECW during 1995-1998 had their storylines that kept me tuning in each week; Tommy Dreamer's quest to finally pin Raven, Public Enemy battling the Gangstas to rule the "hood", Mikey Whipwreck's "underdog" story, etc.
That being said, if ECW would have continued to develop storylines along with their hardcore matches, then I think they could have been successful; however, I don't think Heyman can pull that off. Heyman is great at finding new talent, creating great gimmick matches and motivating workers, but he doesn't have the vision that McMahon has. McMahon can market his product all over the world and make it sell.
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Post by Avalanche Alvarez on Jan 31, 2007 9:56:54 GMT -5
Paul Heyman had kept ECW afloat.... and instead of WWE buying out ECW..... ECW bought out WWE? What wrestling be like now? He'd probably have gotten a millionaire backer and had a TNA style show on a cable station. But sadly, that didn't happen.
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