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Originally Posted by Gertner
Which would be impossible. ECW was based on "F*ck the big two", and being everything that WCW and WWF weren't. By having the WWE tied to the ECW label, that would be like a punk band that keeps saying "screw the establishment," but meanwhile they are signed to a major record label. The legitimacy of ECW would be tarnished, and nobody would by into it. I know I wouldn't, and I was as big an ECW mark as there ever was.
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Uhhhh...How to put this...
There's a lot of money to be made in saying "Fuck the establishment."
It's trendy. Ever wonder why you can buy an anarchy T-Shirt in a chain store in a mall, paying with a credit card? Why you can buy anti-establishment and anti-corporation music at Wal-Mart?
The corporations know this teenage compulsion to rebellion is pretty impotent, and yet, a potent source of revenue. They pander to the people who claim to hate them, and cash in.
Now, it'd seem I'm getting off topic, but this is going somewhere.
Vince could do the same thing. The thing is, it's unlikely. That would require swallowing pride and allowing ECW to take an actual anti-WWE stance, even though it's all a ruse. They couldn't seem to do that with wCw, and I doubt they would do it with Ec-Dub, but they could.
Corporate anti-corporate products. It works everywhere else, and it could work here, except for egos.