After several months of the 'new' ECW I figured I would share my thoughts. I like some of you (well I don't know who reads this but whatever) LOVED the original ECW. Who couldn't love Sandman, Balls and Axel, New Jack, Shane Douglas, Francine, Public Enemy, Al Snow, Sabu, The Dudleys, Mike Awesome, and the list goes on. I remember traveling to Canton, Gainesville, Birmingham, and Philadelphia just to see ECW. ECW was special and we all knew it. ECW was always 'extreme rules' which made it different, and an alternative to WWF and WCW at the time. ECW appealed to the internet fan, the hardcore fan, the fan that loved wrestling not sports entertainment. ECW like everything else went through transitions at one time they allowed and encouraged fans to bring weapons to the matches. They had to stop that. Once they got national exposure on TNN they started toning down their product. Bottom line they had to appeal to a broader audience than they did before. Let's face it to be a national power and keep talent you can not make it traveling the country and drawing 12oo fans per event. Hence the fact Shane Douglas, Bam Bam Bigelow, Taz, Mike Awesome, The Dudleys, Public Enemy, Al Snow, Sandman and many more left for a bigger payday in either WWF or WCW. At the end of the original ECW think about the talent that was there. Do you remember EZ Money? What about Simon Diamond? Confederate Money?(or something like that) It is not like the talent was deep.
Fast forward to 2006 and the reincarnation of ECW. Is it what is was NOPE, would it ever be like it was NOPE. Here is the question, had ECW survived what would the product look like? Would it be like TNA? Would it be like WWE RAW or SmackDown!? Would it be like ROH? or would it be like the new version of ECW? Would it have extreme matches all of the time or would they be sprinkled in? Even though ECW is a WWE brand it is still better than RAW or SmackDown! There is more wrestling and the wrestlers seem to bust their butts. The matches mean more and at least there are new faces like Marcus Cor Von (Monty Brown), CM Punk, Elijah Burke, and my favorite Kevin Thorne. Don't get me wrong I don't like everything about the new ECW but it could be worse. There are many things I would have done different, I would have used the originals to build the new breed in the beginning as opposed to just now starting that feud. I would have phased out the 'extreme rules' gradually over time instead of right off the bat. I think we all agree there have been mistakes but it is getting better. Give it a chance and see how it grows.
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