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DESTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good god it's nice to see you back here, but more to the topic at hand...
RoH is horrible. I am personally shocked to hear you stick up for it. While Japan can on rare occasion produce a decent match, RoH is basically half chopping and half spots that make TNA look good. Their fans are not fans of what is happening, but rather they are cheering and thirsty for more because it's like nothing WWE puts on. Now, while WWE's storylines are terrible, and their choices in match outcomes is shady at best, the matches themselves still to this day carry a heavy emphasis on the storytelling/psychology aspect, which is something that RoH has never been able to accomplish. The fans aren't what I would call blood thirsty, just trained marks. They are special from other standard marks in that they don't cheer good and boo evil, they cheer what RoH has told them to cheer. It doesn't mean they're any more cultured than your average mark, simply programmed differently.
You made a fine point about ECW. ECW was generally awful. It had hardcore moments, which was not only the primary focus, it was their biggest banner to make people watch them. Again, just a mark trained to pop for anything considered hardcore. The only thing ECW ever did well was not to rush things. They allowed all the time in the world to develop something, a rare quality for that era of wrestling. But that's the biggest problem with most companies outside of WWE, they take this ONE little area that WWE may fall short on, over hype how they are the solution to that, and then market themselves as WWE's alternative when it's really the same thing with a little more of a specific spice (ECW/Hardcore, TNA/High Spots, RoH/Stiff Workers).
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