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glanville6

10-14-2010, 04:50 PM

I miss WWECW. Not that it was great by any means, but I thought it was good for an hour on Tuesday nights.

It brought Braden Walker into our hearts.

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:13 PM

Yeah, ECW was the goods

Vastardikai

10-14-2010, 06:18 PM

I was at December 2 Dismember.

No. No I don't.

RavenAnWo

10-14-2010, 06:18 PM

Best thing about WWECW was it gave younger talent a push. And gave mid carders like Christian a stage to shine on. There was a lot of potential for the show but it just was caught in the stigma of being a 3rd rate brand. A shell of it's former namesake.

Chavo Classic

10-14-2010, 06:20 PM

ECW's only redemption was that it helped the careers of CM Punk and John Morrison.

RavenAnWo

10-14-2010, 06:24 PM

CM Punk and Morrison... The real crown jewels from that show... I have to agree with that. To bad Morrison fell to the wayside for a while and has been surpassed by the Miz in a short time. At least he's now in the US Title picture with Killings and Bryan.

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:28 PM

A lot of good and underrated matches happened on ECW.

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:34 PM

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:37 PM

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:41 PM

BollywoodSingh

10-14-2010, 06:42 PM

I would have preferred they kept a third brand, just don't call it ECW. I think calling the brand ECW made it seem a lot worse than it actually was because everyone wanted to compare it to the original ECW. It just stopped making sense within a few months of calling it ECW as it had barely any relation to the original.

It could have been a good stage to introduce new talent, push midcarders, and throw in a couple of upper card guys that aren't quite main eventers (like they did with Matt Hardy, Finlay, Lashley etc.)

Londoner

10-14-2010, 06:42 PM

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:42 PM

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:45 PM

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:50 PM

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:55 PM

Juan

10-14-2010, 06:56 PM

I wish I could find the 15 min classic Evan Bourne and Chavo Guerrero had. Also, a very underrated match between Miz/Morrison and Shannon Moore & Jimmy Wang Yang. A great match between Tyson Kidd and Christian too.

Juan

10-14-2010, 07:26 PM

Here's another good one

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steveweiser

10-14-2010, 07:34 PM

The ECW brand needed to have a name change like Velocity, Keep the guys on there who WWE has no storylines for or stuck in the mix, throw in a couple of main eventers for star rating and let people who dont usualy get a push show their talents off.

Dont keep the ECW name if you cant live up to the ECW name

Juan

10-14-2010, 07:38 PM

thedamndest

10-14-2010, 07:42 PM

I didn't watch it regularly enough to say I miss it. That's probably the case with a lot of people, thus the reason for the switch to NXT. But the talent was good and so were the matches. Overall I like the NXT approach better. It was more often the case that a guy would be hot in ECW and then come to Raw or Smackdown to fester.

Juan

10-14-2010, 07:43 PM

Emperor Smeat

10-14-2010, 07:45 PM

Initially I loved it since WWE was making a 3rd brand be different than the bland RAW or the neglected but good wrestling Smackdown.

Hated for a while when it was being completely mismanaged since instead of showcasing what made ECW great, Vince was forcing too much bad storylines and crap to viewers. Also didn't help ECW was being converted into a WWE style show than let it become its own identity.

It got much better once WWE realized ECW would be better as a feeder or development brand. It allowed the new or young wrestlers a chance to develop and rise as potential stars before being pushed into the main brands.

rob11

10-14-2010, 08:02 PM

Damian Rey

10-14-2010, 08:52 PM

I miss ECW. As posted above, there were some very good standout matches shown weekly. And like also stated above, guys who would normally float around on Raw or SmackDown! aimlessly were allowed to showcase what they could do.

Christian had a number of very good matches on ECW and as its champion on PPV, and it could be argued that ECW was top to bottom the best "wrestling" show on WWE programming.

I didn't bother to care that they called it ECW. If anyone really thought they were going to be fed the same Heyman-driven brand from the mid and late 90s, then they just set themselves up for failure and should't hate on WWE for trying to make it different. It was never going to be what it used to be.

I do wish that they had kept it around, but with NXT proving to be a more effective way at getting younger/unknown guys mainstream exposure, I agree with the change.

Triple Naitch

10-14-2010, 11:02 PM

Please no more Braden Walker jokes.

RavenAnWo

10-14-2010, 11:57 PM

Who need's Braden Walker jokes.... Braden Walker is the joke.

screech

10-15-2010, 12:44 AM

I agree with Juan. It was indeed the goods.

DInsaneOne

10-15-2010, 01:53 AM

WWECW had some pretty decent matches, pushed guys like punk, morrision and don't forget kofi kingston. if it was still around, i think guys like yoshi tatsu would have a bit more exposure.

It probably needed to be called something else other than ECW or explain that the Extreme part meant something different. I am glad its gone let ECW rest in peace.

Would love to see superstars become a brand or a halfway brand, you can have the secondary titles defended on the show as main events (US and IC titles), heck if it became a mini brand, either title cud be used as the main championship for it.

DaVe

10-15-2010, 03:03 AM

ECW was awesome for its first year. Then I couldn't care less.

Gertner

10-15-2010, 10:48 AM

Punk, Sheamus, Morrison, Kingston, Hart Dynasty, Bourne, The Miz all WWECW guys. Not bad.

itsmeJD

10-15-2010, 01:23 PM

I was at December 2 Dismember.

No. No I don't.

This....God what a horrible show.

stultiloquy

10-15-2010, 01:32 PM

I enjoyed it for the first couple of months, but as a whole I don't miss it.

The Pope

10-15-2010, 01:45 PM

I miss Kevin Thorn

whiteyford

10-15-2010, 02:43 PM

I enjoyed it more than NXT, less skits and more wrestling, but like an other poster said once a hot talent was drafted to Raw or Smackdown they kinda festered and did nothing. Definately think the name hurt it too, liked how it started with Extremists and Vixens rather than Superstars/Divas, gave a sense of identity but once that stopped it wasnt much more than Superstars is now.

Savio

10-15-2010, 03:47 PM

I enjoyed watching it I just wish they called it something else after the first couple months

Schlomey

10-15-2010, 08:35 PM

Yeah, ECW was the goods
:y:

MoFo

10-15-2010, 09:18 PM

I liked it when Test was getting his main event run, and for little spells like Mark Henry v Matt Hardy and Chavo v Punk. Other than that, pretty shit.

glanville6

10-15-2010, 09:48 PM

Dirt sheet was good. Abraham Washington wasn't. Dirt Sheet was mostly online, but it was on ECW a few times.

Got kind of sappy when they had Dreamer going for and with the belt. Otherwise, I pretty much enjoyed the show.

dronepool

10-15-2010, 11:03 PM

Gertner

10-15-2010, 11:07 PM

The Originals vs New Breed was an awesome feud.