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Old 09-02-2014, 12:44 PM   #1
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Vince gave it a brand on his television, so it must have been something significant.
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Vince gave it a brand on his television, so it must have been something significant.
The original, yes...at first I thought WWE did a great job selling fans on a rebirth of ECW. One Night Stand 2005 was fucking amazing as was 2006, but then those PPVs just became another show on the calendar for them. The first ECW televised event was awful, as was December '06s "December to Dismember", which like the first two ONS shows tried to be an homage and tribute to the original organization, but ended up being a flop thanks to the main event featuring an "Extreme" Elimination Chamber for the ECW Championship.

Over the next roughly two years WWE's version of ECW had some moments of brilliance, but mostly it was a well-intentioned but only moderately well recieved throwback to the original.

As for the original organization I would say definitely yes to the question at hand. I mean, here comes this guy Paul Heyman who was basically unheard of, taking the former Pennsylvania territory known as Eastern Championship Wrestling and turned it into a wildly successful (for a time, anyway) promotion which sold fans on something they didn't even know they wanted: a wrestling promotion which solely focused on hardcore wrestling and "rewriting the rules". For those things Paul Heyman will forever be known as a creative wrestling genius and rightfully so.
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