ECW being brought back full time?
 

WWE has made the decision to bring back Extreme Championship Wrestling as a full time entity and has begun talking with former ECW talent about returning to work for the new version of the legendary promotion. As of right now, WWE is targeting a September return for the promotion. No decision has been made as to exactly how the company will be brought back yet. It's possible that it will take over the present OVW territory, that it will be a promotion that gets matches on the Raw and/or Smackdown promotions or possibly in some other manner. Sources have told us that Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer will be booking ECW when it starts up.



WWE has already contacted a number of ECW wrestlers and contracts will be sent out to them this week. The talents are being offered three year deals which consist of a series of one year contracts, with rollover clauses. A number of wrestlers have been contacts so far. We can confirm that WWE has talked with The Sandman, Francine and Balls Mahoney and will be sending contracts out to them this week.
We will have more information on this story later today or tomorrow.


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Woah, pretty weird. They're not even sure how it will happen yet though so it's all up in the air but if they get enough talent, it will just be awesome.

...after 5 years, I dont know why, but I am still shocked people think WWE is bringing back ECW.

This will suck.

It would be pretty funny if this were true and all the ECW loyalists in TNA all left for this. TNA would be pretty much screwed...

tna fans do not like wwe or vince run company, so no the tna fans will not flock to fake ecw.

Team 3D, Raven, Rhino, Sabu, Lynn...history has shown Raven and Lynn won't work with WWE again in any way shape or form, and let's be honest Sabu is a come and go guy in TNA, Rhino is over but in no way a major player, the only real lose would be Team 3D...which as "tragic" as losing those 3 guys could be, TNA would move on eith ease without them.

No they would not be screwed. Say what you will about TNA, but has done a great job of creating a lot of their own stars.

I don't believe it.

And not in the "I don't believe it, this is so cool" sense. More in the "I don't believe it, because I doubt it's true" sense.

So they're creating an entire company in order to give RVD a main event spot? :roll:

Also as 6to1 pointed out, most die-hard TNA fans are fans of TNA only because it's not WWE...if ECW flew under the WWE banner it would be...eh...

i don't see 3d going back to vince anytime soon after the trademark thing.

I don't think they are going back to Vince, but seeing as how I had no proof if that they would or wouldn't work with McMahon Inc. I didn't want to make assuming statements.

well I would say this is crap, but Scherer posted it, so I dunno. we'll see.

This, could really work...but it also....could really suck

oh and btw.....if it is true...some part of it is defnitaly desgined to try and rob TNAs locker room, not sayin itll work but if vinnie can really jsut not be involved with the ECW thing in terms of inner workings (at least, to thje point were wrestlers who despise him dont have to see him, and paul heymen would really be there boss) maybe it will

If they do do it, my guess would be that they'll replace the SmackDown! brand with it.

They can use it to get wrestlers over, especially if Heyman were booking. Not everyone from ECW has to be in the new ECW.

I hope this is a joke. ECW is done for. This re-make will only be seen as Vinny Mac's version of ECW. The original ECW had a glorious run, and the time was right for it..not anymore, the landscape of wrestling is different and new in today's time.

I wonder if this is just a reason to keep Heyman signed with WWE and to keep other talent from TNA or have people like Sabu defect???

Even if they do this then they'll have 3, maybe 4 months to create new young stars before people get bored of the same old characters, fighting the same old people, over the same old angles.

OMG! THIS IS PHENOMENAL! AND THE SAME THING THAT WAS SAID LAST YEAR! DOES ANYBODY EVER LEARN?

If this is true, they should use this as a springboard for talent coming from OVW, but aren't ready for a full time run on RAW/Smackdown!

it would suck

If this was true, whos to say they have to bring back all the old ECW stars??

Couldn't Heymen just do what he done back in the day and bring in new talent?

Difference is that this is coming from a legit source.

Right. And last time it came from Rajah, who nicked it from PWI, but this time, it's legit and last time it wasn't.

Weird doublethink material.

ECW's Revival is MAKE IT OR BREAK IT for TNA

If this does happen, I wonder if RVD would still be part of the Raw brand or of the ECW brand, he's meant to be getting a WWE title push soon, and i want him to be a success on Raw.I can't imagine this happening for that reason alone.As others have said, ECW has had its time.

Yeah its had its time. But if Vince can make money on it, he'll bleed it dry.

It was never on PWI last time...

I dunno I might be possible (that WWE will remake it) who knows.

If this turns out to be true, people will SO gloat about it to you. ;)

I don't believe it or disbelieve it. I'm just open to hear what happens next. I never watched ECW and was mildly entertained by One Night Stand.

It won't work.

The reason ECW was the way it was is because of the fans. Those north-eastern fans are insane, and they were obsessed with the wrestlers, and they were hardcore when the word hadn't become pop culture yet.

An ECW under WWE is going to alienate all the old ECW fans. Sure it might be an "ECW" show, and it might have some of the wrestlers from the old ECW, but will it be the same thing? No way.

It's like throwing a party at your house while the parents are gone. Paul Heyman and all the Extreme Championship Wrestling fans were throwing a huge party while Vince McMahon and Ted Turner were out of town. They were having a blast and McMahon and Turner frowned upon them.

This is the equivalent of the parents allowing you to throw the party as long as it's kept under their watchful eye. It's just not the same thing.

ECW is dead. Let it RIP.

There's one way this will be good, one way this will work, and one way that they MIGHT be able to get the people to sign who "refuse" to work for WWE. ANd that's if, and only if, this line is true, and stays true.

" Sources have told us that Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer will be booking ECW when it starts up. "

Another thing. Ignoring how "ECW" like it really is compared to old, we have to remember something else.

It's another "brand" IE, a chance for guys who wouldn't get over normally to get over. Even if the product is only slightly better than WWE, if guys like RVD, CM Punk ( I could see him going there), Nunzio, Dreamer, etc, can shine there, and do more than WWE would ever allow them to do, is it really a bad thign?

Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer booking it is the only positive thing in this news.

Also, look at the key word in that sentence which was 'when' not 'if'...:shifty:

Yeah, nail on the head.

:y:

Id watch it.

The way it sounds to me is that the WWE are trying to create a small scale brand to get guys over and are using the ECW name to market it. Basically they are renaming OVW ECW and then trying to bring in some old ECW guys to make it more marketable while keeping the OVW roster as the centerpiece.

Another thought, they've always been talking about a wrestling channel in North America. I don't know the status of that plan but maybe this is a move to get more programing on there.

winner.

:D

Paul Heyman booking and running the show so far is a plus. His bringing up of new talent is a plus. But if this is also designed to dip into the TNA locker room to bring back wrestlers, who would you get? The One already stated that Jerry Lynn and Raven won't come back. Team 3D would be 50/50 since Paul Heyman sorta burned bridges on the tradmark situation. There's also the timeslot. I heard that Vince wants to bump RAW AM to a night slot and put ECW there. But like the millions of people who post here, "I'll believe it when I see it."

Paul Heyman didn't burn any bridges in regards to trademarking.

Paul Heyman, when THe Dudleys left ECW, gave them/allowed them the use of the name. They never copyrighted it. THey went to WWE, and Vince then copyrighted it. Paul gave it to them, they fucked up.