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Originally Posted by SlickyTrickyDamon
That would be on how you define "failure." The company did go out of business. However they made a lasting impression on the business.
They gave talent the freedom to find their voice. WWE used them to try to get something out of their talent that they didn't discover yet. Al Snow, Jerry Lynn, Raven, Justin Credible all were failures before they got into ECW. They made something of their careers and sold out to WWE and made good money. That's not a fucking failure at all. Stone Cold Steve Austin the biggest money maker in wrestling history wouldn't have drawn jack shit if he hadn't found his way into Mrs. Heyman's basement to cut some promos.
They got on PPV when there was only like two PPVs channels to order from on a cable station. You had to have something good and something people wanted to see to get on PPV in the 1990s. That's not a failure.
They got a national television contract to be on cable TV. It didn't work out the way they wanted it to. The show didn't ever have a chance to succeed because they were just using ECW as a test run for their buy out of Monday Night Raw.
They put asses in seats and gave wrestlers good sallaries for a long time before it all ended.
Not a failure. Just a company that had some things not go their way. They did great for a while. They might have expanded a little bit too fast and they definitely were screwed by WCW stealing all of their talent.
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Sounds like a failure to me. Especially when Al Snow makes the positive highlights of their existence.
ECW was the promotion today's IWC deserved. Nobody got paid properly, the talent was medicore but thought they were to shelf, and the audience was brain washed.