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Even though that is meant to be a joke and it sounds like a total incoherent mess, it would actually make fantatastic television. At least it's a hell of a lot more interesting than whatever we are going to get. That wouldn't work at all because there is a definite resemblance in the faces of Bob and Randy Orton.

Well, Shannon Moore can't use the "Prince of Punk" name anymore because TNA trademarked it while he was there working under no contract.

I quit watching the show when Sabu got DISQUALIFIED in an ECW MATCH. Fuck this.

PWInsider Elite claimed that WWE recently discovered that Angle had a very hardcore addiction to Vicodin.

Look a few posts above yours.

WWE SIGNS FORMER MILLION DOLLAR TOUGH ENOUGH FINALIST by Mike Johnson @ 1:30:00 PM on 7/10/2006 World Wrestling Entertainment has signed former Million Dollar Tough Enough competitor Daniel Rodimer. A Florida native, Rodimer played semi-pro football for the Tampa Bay Barracudas and competed for about five weeks on the Smackdown version of Tough Enough in Fall 2004, eventually won by Daniel Puder. Rodimer, likely best remembered for his cockiness during the competition, will be assigned to the Deep South Wrestling developmental territory.

I'll be watching the Home Run Derby.

Well, there is an ECW logo on the poster.

How many more people are going to use the word "improved" instead of "improvised"?

I really wonder how soon it will be before Vince starts running around on ECW shows.

CM Punk, the first deaf ECW Champion!

No Vince didn't. Paul was pretty much copying Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow and since Vince never saw Pirates, Vince never got what Paul was trying to do. Vince was hoping for a John Pierre Lefett type of pirate. I don't recall Jean-Pierre Lafitte having any kind of personality at all. The only thing I remember him doing was stealing Bret Hart's jacket.

I always thought it was funny that on the Raw before ECW's first show on Sci-Fi, Stevie Richards kept using the buzzphrase "experience the difference". And what a difference it was! Edge & John Cena fighting! A WWE guy beating up the ECW Champion! Puke.

Tazz talked about his new shirt on his "Shootin' With Tazz" audio segment on "ECW.Com" (I guess http://www.wwe.com/shows/ecw/ is too verbose). He said he designed the shirt himself, and reminded everyone on how he designed all the merchandise in ECW before he left. He said the "T" in the front was the same font he used for his name when he became Taz in 1995. He said he wanted to have "F.T.W." on the back, but they weren't legally allowed since someone else already has it copyrighted for merchandise use. He also mentioned that on the back of the neck, there's the #13 and it says "A Choke-Out Authentic". He said that whenever you see that logo on the neck of the shirt, that means he designed it.

I pretty much knew it was going to suck from he get go. My thing was I didn't think Paul Heyman would sign on to do something that involved reviving ECW unless he saw it as something that could 100% work. But I have a feeling this isn't turning out as the project he signed on to do.

One that blew all their money and is now broke.

I love Luger's butchering of the word "especially". And to think, this guy made more money in 15 years than I probably will in my entire life. Oh well, at least he blew it and he's broke.

I was never thinking this was going to be exactly like the old ECW. But ever since I started following this revival of ECW in Meltzer's newsletter and reading everything he wrote about what it was going to be, I got excited. I would have loved an Internet-only show or the 1am USA Network show. All that I read before the show debuted was that Paul Heyman & Tommy Dreamer were going to be in charge of the promotion, and basically Vince McMahon just oversees everything and makes sure everything is going smoothly. It was going to be treated as a AAA baseball team is to a major league baseball team. However, I started becoming skeptical when I read the shows were going to be done at the Smackdown tapings. That alone was going to produce a bad ECW show because the environment would not be there. It would always be ECW in front of people there who bought tickets to watch Smackdown. With that being said, the bottom line is this new ECW was, according to Dave Meltzer, originally and geniunely supposed to be Vince's answer to bringing back the hardcore wrestling fans who may have stopped watching when WCW and ECW died in 2001. This was originally supposed to appeal to the fans that currently watch TNA and Ring of Honor. But then the Sci-Fi deal was made and it all came crashing down. I found it so ironic that Paul Heyman claimed they were on a "much better network this time around" at One Night Stand, because the NBC Executives behind Sci-Fi have really helped ruin this project thus far. Instead of being a grassroots show with lower production values, we get a primetime show. And oh yeah, it's LIVE. The pressure already came on to have to make a fancier show. The Sci-Fi deal has turned out to be a cancer to the new ECW. The LIVE @ 10pm slot forced Vince McMahon, Kevin Dunn, Stephanie McMahon and her band of crappy writers to plague the show with their sports entertainment garbage and totally neuter any chance this new ECW had of succeeding in their original plan. Then NBC Executives demanded established star talent on the show. So, we get Kurt Angle and The Big Show moved over to ECW. Not good enough. So we have to have people like John Cena, Edge, and Randy Orton all over the place the first few weeks. It's said now that the original plan has been thrown so far out the window, that Vince is now going to take ECW and market it to the WWE crowd. That's why you never saw Steven DeAngelis. That's why you'll never see Atlas Security anymore (can't get in the way of those camera shots!). That's why you'll never see original referees Jim Molineaux & John Finnegan again. That's why WWE is currently debating on shitcanning people they originally signed for the project like Tony Mamaluke, Justin Credible, Balls Mahoney, etc. That's why you'll never see ECW in the ECW Arena on television (what's a show without pyro anyways?!). It's also now to a point where Paul Heyman's job is to write a show, hand it to Vince & Steph and they liberally make changes to it. Paul wanted Test vs. Al Snow to be a competitive match to re-establish Al Snow as a crazy-yet-competitive fuck, yet putting over Test so everyone realizes he's back and in a big way. Vince & Steph wanted Test to squash Snow in 2 minutes and then bury him by kicking Head into the crowd. According to Meltzer, the current running joke backstage is that Tommy Dreamer's power in the new ECW has now dipped to "less than zero". Who would have thought ECW could have gotten fucked over again as badly by another network as they did back in 2000 with TNN? But hey, Vince is taking ECW global!

Just so everyone knows, WWE.Com goofed up on the ECW listings of "Neikirk O'Reilly". It's actually two different people, Derrick Neikirk & Rough House O'Reilly. They were listed as facing the FBI on ECW house shows before WWE.Com changed the house show talent listing format.

For those of you wondering, Paul Heyman signed a 6-month extension earlier in the year that expires in September.

Yeah Vince. That's why Rise & Fall of ECW is the best selling DVD in WWE history and not any of the WrestleManias.

This is total bullshit. No one knew about RVD & Sabu until Monday morning and WON's don't show up in people's mailboxes until Thursday at the earliest. Total BS. Close the thread.

That's horribly fake

According to Meltzer, the following matches have been added: -- Edge vs. John Cena for the WWE Championship -- Rey Mysterio, Batista, & Bobby Lashley vs. King Booker, Mark Henry, & Finlay -- Torrie Wilson, Maria, Mickie James, Candice Michelle, Victoria, Kristal Marshall, Ashley, Jillian Hall, Michelle McCool, and Kelly Kelly competing in a Bikini Bull Riding Contest