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I still wanna see New Jack on RAW staple gunning everyone in sight.

According to Power Slam magazine over here in the UK, talks with New Jack broke down after he blew the whole deal by announcing it on some shitty indy fed card. He was meant to be brought in as the real guy that stabbed Cena but that was tanked.

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Guest Trivia247

so who are the ones we have in rumor or confirmation that the WWE have signed on for the ECW PPV?

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I still wanna see New Jack on RAW staple gunning everyone in sight.

According to Power Slam magazine over here in the UK, talks with New Jack broke down after he blew the whole deal by announcing it on some shitty indy fed card. He was meant to be brought in as the real guy that stabbed Cena but that was tanked.

yeah right...like Cena would even be WALKING right now if New Jack came after him with a knife.

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That doesn't make sense. Rey Mysterio announced at an indy show that he was coming to WWE about 4 months before he debuted, and WWE didn't have a problem with it at all.

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Rey Mysterio probably had a job lined up the second Vince bought WCW, but wanted to wait until he was 100% healed up to come in. At least thats what everyone says.

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there must be some differences between New Jack and rey rey negotiation wise. Perhaps New Jack was the one desperate for the job and Rey was the commodity that the WWE was looking to secure.

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ROARING ELBOW~!!~!~

 

TORNADO DDT ON THE STEEL CHAIRS!~!~!~!~!

 

WARRIOR SPIRIT NO-SELL OF SICK GERMAN SUPLEX~!~!~!!~!~!~

 

...I <3 Tanaka. This little piece of news just made me buy the show.

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It might actually be a good idea if TNA let all the guys be at the ECW ppv just for the fact that it gives the wrestlers they have more exposure. This ECW ppv will most likely do atleast 100,000 buys, plus the buildup they would get on WWE tv.

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Personally I don't think you do a show like this unless you have Raven, Funk, Sandman and Sabu, but they will anyways.

 

So is this our list so far:

 

under WWE contract

Dudley's

Dreamer

Tazz

Richards

Guido

Tajari

Rhyno

Storm

RVD (hurt)

Benoit

Jericho

Guerro

Malenko

Mysterio

 

one night only

Credible

Axl

Tanaka

Jason

Balls

Mamaluke

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The WWE needs to bring in Sabu. He could use a nice pay day from this PPV. He was ECW when the promotion went from Eddie Gilbert to Todd Gordon/Paul Heyman. He was their franchise wrestler.

 

Signing Tanaka should be a long-term deal. He'd take the contract, anyone from Japan would if the WWE came calling. Push him hard and give the Japanese fans someone they can actually cheer for and not feel like retards. The WWE has never booked a strong (i.e. ching chang chong choppee choppee peepee) Asian worker, aside from Tajiri whose career has been on the skids since his wife had a miscarriage in '03. He's never been the same since.

 

Masato Tanaka is probably 5'9"ish legit, which would make him about as tall as Benoit, Jericho and Guerrero by an inch or couple so he wouldn't look too out of place standing next to guys like them.

 

This is a guy the company should retain after the PPV. Just don't book him like some Jap joke.

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Personally I don't think you do a show like this unless you have Raven, Funk, Sandman and Sabu, but they will anyways.

 

So is this our list so far:

 

under WWE contract

Dudley's

Dreamer

Tazz

Richards

Guido

Tajari

Rhyno

Storm

RVD (hurt)

Benoit

Jericho

Guerro

Malenko

Mysterio

 

one night only

Credible

Axl

Tanaka

Jason

Balls

Mamaluke

don't forget Nova

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Guest jake

From pwinsider comes this list;

 

Credit pwinsider.com

 

Talent Under WWE Contract Available for PPV:

 

Chris Benoit

Simon Dean (aka Nova in ECW)

Tommy Dreamer

Spike Dudley

The Dudley Boyz

Eddie Guerrero

Paul Heyman

Chris Jericho

Lita (aka Miss Congeniality in ECW)

Dean Malenko

Dawn Marie

Rey Mysterio

Rhyno

Nunzio (aka Little Guido in ECW)

Steven Richards

Al Snow

Lance Storm

Yoshihiro Tajiri

Tazz

Rob Van Dam

 

 

Outside Talent Contacted & Announced and/or Expected to Appear:

 

Axl Rotten

Bill Alfonso

Jason

Justin Credible

Masato Tanaka

Referee John Finnegan

Referee Mike Kehner

Referee Jim Molineaux

Sabu

The Sandman

Tony Mamaluke

Tracy Smothers

 

 

Additional Talent Contacted but not Confirmed:

 

Joey Styles

 

Talent Contacted via TNA, but Not Expected to Appear:

 

Raven

Shane Douglas

Kid Kash

Jerry Lynn

 

* Now we know that Spike Dudley will be a bump machine for Tanaka...

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Guest Trivia247

Joey Styles going to a WWE event? after all the shit he said about the WWF over the years in ECW... Heh imagine him getting Ganged up in some back office by JR and Lawler for the pot shots he took.

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And then imagine the lawsuit, and the breaking news on 1wrestling.

 

I agree with Bobo. TNA would be wise to send their former ECW stars to this show, as it WOULD garner them more exposure. Hell, even put it into the contracts that whoever's doing commentary NEEDS to comment on the fact that TNA-wrestlers on the show WORK for TNA.

 

Hell, asking for some publicity instead of an enormous fee, or just not doing it at all? Sounds like a good deal to me.

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People suggesting Sabu be there may need to be reminded that last time people saw him he was tipping the scales at around 160 ibs. He has lost a ton of weight from his hospital stay and is either finished in wrestling or a good 1-2 years from a comeback.

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If they want to protect people they should do a tag like

 

RVD/Sabu/Taz /w Fonzie vs. The Dudleys and Tommy Dreamer /w Gertner

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That would be pretty anti-ECW, and would piss off the Mutants. Why?

 

Dreamer and the Dudleyz have NEVER gotten along story-wise, and remember who broke Beulah's neck? Buh Buh Ray and D-Von.

 

RVD and Sabu split paths in late 1999/early 2000 when it became apparent to Sabu that Fonzie was favoring Rob. RVD and Taz never got along, even in Fonzie's Triple Threat (which lasted all of...a month, if that). Sabu and Taz? The feud that was such a big part of ECW that it headlined their first PPV? Yeah. Them teaming makes sense.

 

If they want to do a tag main event to not have anybody's heat taken away, make it, like, Masato Tanaka/Chris Benoit vs. Tajiri/Eddie Guerrero, or something. Though I'd greatly prefer the main event to feature Tommy Dreamer in some capacity, as he WAS ECW.

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If they want to do a tag main event to not have anybody's heat taken away, make it, like, Masato Tanaka/Chris Benoit vs. Tajiri/Eddie Guerrero, or something

Make it so! :headbang:

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Dreamer and the Dudleyz have NEVER gotten along story-wise, and remember who broke Beulah's neck? Buh Buh Ray and D-Von.

And in the first regular ECW on TNN, didn't they reveal that they raped her in her hospital bed?

 

As an aside, do you think they will do something similar to Wrestlemania Rewinds to promote the PPV? Chances are, 95% of WWE fans haven't even heard of Masato Tanaka...they could show clips of him wrestling Taz (since Tazz is a face WWE fans know). Even the ECW guys that WWE fans do know could be shown doing ECW stuff. Hell, it wouldn't be too bad of an idea to go so far as to show some clips of matches on Velocity and Heat.

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Question: Are they going to be wrestling non-WWE style in a smaller ring, or is it just going to be a WWE show with ECW banners and a bunch of different guys wrestling? I know this was probably asked before, but I figured maybe more information has come out by now.

 

Also, when will promotion for this show begin? I know right now it would not be wise to advertise an "ECW" show, while promoting WM, but June isn't THAT far away.

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As long as they don't give Axl the Mic at all the WWE will be fine...

 

First F-Bomb comes out and gets beeped then his entire rant will be Beeped out.

 

then Ian Rotten will come out of no where and we will have a Taipei Deathmatch with barbwire Bat and broken glass brawl up and down the stands, until someone actually hits a wrestling move and amazingly enough that stops the slaughter

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