No matter what people think, or even what people want to think, everyone has to realize that no matter what, ECW IS WWE.
Exactly... and I give them props for trying something different but this whole ECW thing is a mess.
I like how the people they've announced as appearing at the PPV so far are as follows:
John Cena- WWE guy
RVD- WWE guy
Kurt Angle- WWE guy
Randy Orton- WWE guy
Tazz- WWE guy
Jerry Lawler- WWE guy
Edge- WWE guy
Mick Foley- WWE guy
Tommy Dreamer- WWE guy
Terry Funk- associated with ECW, sure, but the appeal here is more his coming out of retirement and the Foley/Funk history rather than the fact that he was really an ECW fixture
Rey Mysterio- WWE guy
Sabu- the only non-WWE guy to be seen
So basically this whole ECW thing boils down to "well, we signed Sabu."
I don't understand how this idea is supposed to succeed. The "new" ECW is a bunch of people we've seen on WWE programming for years, and a bunch of scrubs no one in their right mind has ever cared about in the first place (Balls Mahoney? Sandman? Really?).
I can't believe they're going through with this ridiculous idea.
Same thing happened last year, people were worried it would get watered down with Raw and Smackdown coming in