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**The CyNick** · 04-17-2005, 05:21 PM

From what I understand this is just one night deal, its not like they plan on bringing back ECW as a brand, so it has to be sold as just a reunion show, instead of the rebirth of ECW.

Which actually makes it much harder to sell, because when you make it seem like its "one night only" there's really no reason to get behind it, because ultimately nothing that happens on the show will mean anything. All you'll have is the same small gorup of people who used to order ECW PPVs in the late 90s, which will make this PPV a big time failure.

I'm not all that hyped up about the idea of the show. Its different, and thats good, but almost all the guys who were on top in ECW are far more broken down right now, and I have very little interest in seeing them wrestle.

Heyman obviously has to be the focal point of the advertising for the show.

Maybe if they build it where Heyman says he's leaving the WWE, but one of the things that he did when he was GM of Smackdown was put a clause in his contract that he could run one PPV the way he wanted to. He could cut a promo saying he hated the way ECW ended, and its been eating at him for years and years, but now he's found a way to give ECW and the ECW fans a send off they deserve.

He could do this on RAW, and then say starting next week, he's going to be looking for guys who want to give the people one last show to remember ECW by. On RAW have some of the ex-ECW guys form there agree to work the show, and then do the same thing on SD, including having a few non-WWE guys show up to agree to work. This would be cool to see all the ex-ECW guys in the ring together.

Over the next couple of weeks they announce some matches, and start to work some angles, maybe someone calls out Tazz, calls him a pussy for being an announcer all these years (I could see Douglas doing this, which would be ironic now). Have Malenko come out on SD and challenge Eddie Guerrero. Maybe have Raven attack Tommy Dreamer on RAW.

Maybe they could have some matches where guys like the Dudleys keep getting DQd for using tables, and then hype that they wont be getting DQd at One Night Stand.

I dont know, I'm pretty confident Heyman will come up with something decent.

04-17-2005, 05:21 PM	#3
The CyNick Make the IWC Great Again Posts: 8,922	From what I understand this is just one night deal, its not like they plan on bringing back ECW as a brand, so it has to be sold as just a reunion show, instead of the rebirth of ECW. Which actually makes it much harder to sell, because when you make it seem like its "one night only" there's really no reason to get behind it, because ultimately nothing that happens on the show will mean anything. All you'll have is the same small gorup of people who used to order ECW PPVs in the late 90s, which will make this PPV a big time failure. I'm not all that hyped up about the idea of the show. Its different, and thats good, but almost all the guys who were on top in ECW are far more broken down right now, and I have very little interest in seeing them wrestle. Heyman obviously has to be the focal point of the advertising for the show. Maybe if they build it where Heyman says he's leaving the WWE, but one of the things that he did when he was GM of Smackdown was put a clause in his contract that he could run one PPV the way he wanted to. He could cut a promo saying he hated the way ECW ended, and its been eating at him for years and years, but now he's found a way to give ECW and the ECW fans a send off they deserve. He could do this on RAW, and then say starting next week, he's going to be looking for guys who want to give the people one last show to remember ECW by. On RAW have some of the ex-ECW guys form there agree to work the show, and then do the same thing on SD, including having a few non-WWE guys show up to agree to work. This would be cool to see all the ex-ECW guys in the ring together. Over the next couple of weeks they announce some matches, and start to work some angles, maybe someone calls out Tazz, calls him a pussy for being an announcer all these years (I could see Douglas doing this, which would be ironic now). Have Malenko come out on SD and challenge Eddie Guerrero. Maybe have Raven attack Tommy Dreamer on RAW. Maybe they could have some matches where guys like the Dudleys keep getting DQd for using tables, and then hype that they wont be getting DQd at One Night Stand. I dont know, I'm pretty confident Heyman will come up with something decent.