WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ECW???!!!

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"But i didn't pick a certain year, like you. You decided to go and judge the entire original ECW with the RECENT WWE product. The reason you did this, is because you know the overall product of WWE is better than the overall product of ECW. You know the Attitude Era was better than ECW. You know the Golden Era was better than ECW. WWE is just straight out better than ECW!"

Actually, it all comes down to opinion. The Attitude era acheived what it did because it "borrowed" from ECW. That is a fact. And there is no such thing as the "Golden era" of the WWF. Spefically, the new ECW sucks. The original ECW is better and that's been proven. When it comes down to WWF, WCW, and ECW in the 90's, from a business perspective, the WWF was obviously won the battle but they also had a lot of things in their favor. If you pick specific years, each company had the advantage with certain years but when you look at the consistency in the product, ECW put on quality shows for years.

"Are you some kind of idiot."

You seem to be asking a question yet you end the sentence with a period so I should be asking you the same thing. I guess if they explained what a question mark was on a WWE DVD, you might know better.

"Don't use that "Million Dollar Marketing" crap. The reason Vince McMahon has so much money, is because he took a little independent wrestling promotion and turned it into a global monopoly. McMahon become rich after hard work and years of building a fan base."

That and the fact that he took over his father's company (which was a lot bigger than a little independent) and grabbed talent from other regional territories. No denying it. Vince had an eye for talent and knew the business end of things but he didn't build it from the ground up. He took it over and brought it to the next level.

"Just get over it. ECW failed because it wasn't marketable enough, had a small fan base and couldn't make any money."

It made a lot of money actually. Are you gonna say that MC Hammer and TLC didn't make money because they went bankrupt as well? Bankruptcy can come from poor management of money, not just lack of funds. ECW was bringing in millions of dollars but the increased expenses of running national television and PPV's took their toll on them financially. As for not being marketable enough, that's just idiotic. They had their own magazine, video games, CD, sell-through videos, action figures, and other things. In order to get licenses for these items, you need to prove that there is a "market" for these things. Contrary to what your flawed logic tells you, brands don't just invest money in putting out your product and hope that it will sell. Acclaim developed two video games for ECW. Did they just put out one and it didn't sell so they decided, "Hey, why don't we see if we can lose some more money here?".

"TNN knew ECW had very little viewers so they stuck them on a crappy time, before eventually kicking them off there net work."

Well, you kind of left out a very important detail in all that. Yes, ECW was put on at a crappy time (Friday nights at 8 o'clock) and given no advertising but you forgot to mention how they were the highest-rated show on the network. Look it up. The only reason they were taken off was because TNN went and negotiated with the WWF behind Heyman's back.

You can say all you want but the fact is ECW was still as popular with the fans as it ever was. They still had solid attendance numbers and while most of their venues where nowhere near the size of the ones the WWF and WCW were booking, they still sold out some sizeable spots like the Hara Arena in Dayton and the Odeum in Chicago for their PPV's. They did international tours in Japan, doing cross-promotional stuff with FMW. Even with their stars defecting to WWF and WCW and the expenses of running a national TV program, the fans still came. The TV deal ended up crushing them as it cost them so much money to produce these shows and they walked out at a time where they needed it for exposure. You can humor us all you want with your "Mark's history of ECW" but it isn't correct at all. Yes, the WWF/WWE is a bigger company than ECW. Nobody is denying that. Did WCW also go out of business because they were a small company with no money?

"I mean honestly, after the whole WWE Invasion storyline and before the release of the Rise and Fall of ECW. Most people had forgotten about the old ECW."

Not true at all. The fans were still chanting "ECW" when something that resembled hardcore would happen, especially involving former ECW alumni. If all these people had forgotten, there would have been no DVD release. Again, companies do their research before they put money into something. If there weren't a strong amount of people who still cared about ECW, a DVD of their history would not have been released. More importantly, if all these people had fogotten, the DVD would not have been such a big seller. Now, please go on continuing to embarass yourself as usual.







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