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.
RVD, Tazz, Foley, Dreamer, Funk, Misterio, and Sabu all became popular in ECW before they did it in WWE. Just because they wrestled in WWE does NOT mean they're not associated with ECW. How you could even consider Dreamer more of a WWE wrestler than an ECW one is beyond me.
I know they're associated with it but that was also a long time ago. Why should anyone care about getting to see Foley, RVD, Rey, etc. when they've been a staple of WWE programming forever now? This idea that Rey vs. RVD was an "interpromotional match" is a joke because they're both WWE veterans. If one of them puts on an ECW t-shirt that doesn't mean anything has changed.
RVD will always be associated with ECW, as will Dreamer/Funk/Sandman etc...
