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Originally Posted by DarthTedious
I'm inclined to agree. Heyman is a maniac and without a leash on his neck I doubt he'd be able to manage a company with any amount of cash. If you'd given him a trillion dollars, he probably would have signed Hogan to a ten-year hundred billion dollar contract.
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Your second sentence shows us how little you understand what happened to ECW, and the third sentence proves how little you understand Paul Heyman.
ECW was screwed over and over again, despite the stars they created. They made Raven, WCW took him. They showcased amazing stars like Mysterio, Psychosis, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Steve Austin and Mick Foley, and they were lured away to WCW and the WWF. He created a new breed of professional wrestling; one with edge and raw storylines and sex and intense violence, as well as incredible wrestling action, and those ideas were repackaged and presented as WWF Attitude and the WCW Cruiserweight division.
They lost Taz. They lost Raven and then they lost Mike Awesome, the then ECW World Champion, and those losses helped dig the hole ECW fell into.
They were also screwed by TNN, who fucked with their show when they finally got national broadcasting, completely ruining the experience for any potential new viewers or fans (some of us may remember the pattern of 5 Minute Commerial - 2 Minutes of ECW - 5 Minute Commercial - 2 Minutes of ECW - etc, etc).
Paul did everything he could to keep the company afloat despite all of these troubles, but when it came to money, there wasn't anything more he could do. He kept losing his biggest draws and as a result, lost parts of the audience, and the revenue that they would have intaken. But that's not entirely his fault.
Also, Heyman would NEVER have hired Hogan. Don't be fucking daft.