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Originally Posted by Jeritron
It's just become the cool thing to say "this is a disgrace to ECW". Well, guess what, it's really not that bad. You have to understand that ECW is and has been dead. If you don't like it, don't watch but I don't think anyone should be losing sleep over it. I'm sure Dreamer, Styles and Tazz are fine with the checks. The old ECW is the original ECW and nothing's gonna change that.
I used to love ECW, but even I like this development. I like it way more than I liked ECW a few months ago. It's just a different show with 3 familiar letters tagged onto it. It doesn't take much to seperate the past from the present, so just live with it. Don't watch it if you don't want to. Nobody's being hurt here. Heyman was fine bringing ECW to Vince and collecting. And I'm sure Dreamer and Sandman are happy to have action figure royalties and Wrestlemania paychecks.
So why are all the ECW fans, (most of which probably never watched it when it was around, but think its cool and shit cuz it's underground) all bent out of shape? Does this change anything that happened originally? It's just become the 'cool' thing to hate and loathe WWECW and Vince and think you're sticking up for the good of a promotion that you probably didn't even follow until it was long dead. It's become cool to see "Vince McMahon ECW champion" and instantly use it as a vehicle to express how much of a hardcore purist you are. Congrats, you're hardcore. But they don't care and neither should you.
Also, how many who are 'disgusted' actually watched it transpire, or watch WWECW regularly? If you didn't care for it all and were disgusted a week ago, how's this change anything? If you were fed up and done with this crap a year ago why is it still a huge disgrace?
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As fans of the product, we have every right to express our distaste for McMahon's blatant acts of self felatio in the forms of booking himself in main events and title matches.
ECW is most certainly dead and buried. From the very first edition of ECW on Sci-Fi, it was apparent to everyone that this "new breed" of ECW wasn't even going to show a glimmer of what the old ECW represented. Still though, the fact remains that they are using the ECW name for its lineage in wrestling history, as well as the ECW Title. And if they want their title or their brand to maintain that lineage, they need to make it mean something.
Putting the ECW Title on Vince McMahon demeans the belt and the brand itself. There are so many other guys on the roster who could have used that title run more than Vince. He's only doing it to keep himself in the limelight, since he doesn't really have a feud going on anymore. It's a pathetic grasp at the brass ring for an old man, at the cost of the ECW Title's prestige, and the intelligence of WWE fans.
It's just really, really fucking stupid.