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I find myself agreeing with both sides of this debate. However, I the time alotment aside, I think the biggest setback in building up wrestlers and finding actual talent, is in the dismissive attitude from the WWE elite.
I will never understand vince's thot process from "Revive ECW because of the diehard fanbase" to "Let's stop the extreme style of ECW because the fanbase won't support it". That being said, they're still calling it "ECW". But they're not acting like ECW has a history. If they played on the pasts of the "old guys", they'd have all the power they needed.
You want to get Kevin Thorn over? Put him in a feud with Tommy Dreamer and have them actually wrestle. Thorn seems to have a unique arsenal, and Dreamer is an established ECW guy. Thorn and Knox is a dead calm; neither are established Extremists, and both could be -- and probably are -- seen as posers from WWE. But you mix up a new guy like Thorn with a classic like Dreamer, the fans may ease into respecting him.
It works for everyone like that. Sandman and Knox could just beat the shit out of each other; RVD and CM Punk could work wonders in a match together; Hell, a storyline in which Rene Dupree feuds with Stevie Richards could be gold.
It's mainly the idea that you need to phase into things slowly in this situation, as opposed to the brickwall slam they're currently attempting.
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