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Originally Posted by Fox
Your second sentence shows us how little you understand what happened to ECW, and the third sentence proves how little you understand Paul Heyman.
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I stand by the second. Heyman is nuts. He reached a huge untapped base of fans, fans who are also nuts. Don't assume that I'm slamming him by calling him a maniac. And he should never have been involved with ECW's purse strings. If you want to talk about "ECW built up big stars and then lost them--" that is bad business. Especially when you start investing money and time in a guy whos' going to get snapped up by one of the bigger companies. People cried foul when TNA started to clamp down on the non-TNA dates their darlings could work; perhaps ECW would have fared better if they'd done similarly. Probably not, though, ECW was a good metaphor for what happens to the body when too many steroids are introduced; you have far too much mass without the support structure to handle it.
As for the third sentence, look up the meaning of hyperbole. And anyways, I'm sick of hearing about how I don't understand Paul Heyman.
Bottom line, if you take away the insane bumps, flaming tables, people hitting each other with sticks, and RVD making frequent drug references, you aren't left with much, ECW was basically the equivalent of a guerilla force in wrestling, and its demise at a time when its faithful wanted more, more, more, has sealed its place a a legend of wrestling viewed through the rosiest of lenses.