virginpusher
Pre-Show Stalwart
I am copying my post from another thread just so everytime someone talks down about something they dont know about i can hand them a handy link walking them through it.
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ECW isnt a company. ECW isnt the higher ups that OK the script. ECW is the fans. When the company disbanded and was misused by a man who didnt know what to do with them the fans were waiting. When a wrestler from ECW appeared in the ring and gave his heart and soul the fans stood at attention with an ovation and cheers and the sound of ECW filled a vinnie mac event. The fans are chaotic, they are rowdy, they are bloodthristy and ready to markout unparreled to any other set of fans in any given wrestling company. They appreciated the hardwork, the creativity, the bumps and bruises and broken bones and they drove the wrestlers with an infectious passion that made men continue wrestling in spite of injury.
That same passion never died. Videos circulated and fans discussed dream matches and whatif's (if the company has never folded). It never went away. It became a spreading cancer. In 2005 in an attempt to quench the ever growing thrist these fans where given what they desired. A night at what better location. They were fed but the hunger never died.
Finally in his age good old vinnie put his hands up. He backed away from this monster and gave paulie creative control and his own timeslot. He was unable to make it disappear as he did WCW. Solely and independantly and fueled by dreams the fans kept the company alive. In the face of adversity they have sown their seed on good solid and fertile ground and now they reap what they sow.
It is the passion of the fans that kept this alive and it is the passion of the fans that keeps these wrestlers motovated. Afterall without the fans you would just have an empty echoing arena constantly reminding the wrestlers that something is missing. The fans.
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ECW isnt a company. ECW isnt the higher ups that OK the script. ECW is the fans. When the company disbanded and was misused by a man who didnt know what to do with them the fans were waiting. When a wrestler from ECW appeared in the ring and gave his heart and soul the fans stood at attention with an ovation and cheers and the sound of ECW filled a vinnie mac event. The fans are chaotic, they are rowdy, they are bloodthristy and ready to markout unparreled to any other set of fans in any given wrestling company. They appreciated the hardwork, the creativity, the bumps and bruises and broken bones and they drove the wrestlers with an infectious passion that made men continue wrestling in spite of injury.
That same passion never died. Videos circulated and fans discussed dream matches and whatif's (if the company has never folded). It never went away. It became a spreading cancer. In 2005 in an attempt to quench the ever growing thrist these fans where given what they desired. A night at what better location. They were fed but the hunger never died.
Finally in his age good old vinnie put his hands up. He backed away from this monster and gave paulie creative control and his own timeslot. He was unable to make it disappear as he did WCW. Solely and independantly and fueled by dreams the fans kept the company alive. In the face of adversity they have sown their seed on good solid and fertile ground and now they reap what they sow.
It is the passion of the fans that kept this alive and it is the passion of the fans that keeps these wrestlers motovated. Afterall without the fans you would just have an empty echoing arena constantly reminding the wrestlers that something is missing. The fans.
