jefferson411
Championship Contender
I just posted this in the London Kendrick thread, but since it will not be the focus of that thread I decided to make a thread for it specifically.
My idea is that they completely bail on the idea of promoting ECW as Extreme (which they are already in the process of doing). Because they only have one hour, they do not introduce another singles title. Instead, they relocate tag teams to ECW, and make it the Tag team place. They only leave the ECW title there because it usually takes a solid singles match to draw the biggest possible crowd.
I will admit to only being familiar with RAW tag teams, I don't really know HEAT (If HEAT even exists anymore), or SD!, so this list is probably missing some teams
Cryme Tyme
Highlanders
Redneck Recking Crew
Spirit Squad splits in two making 2 new teams and leaves one guy in singles action on raw
London and Kendrick
Reunited Hardy Boyz
Reunited WGTT (if they don't have solid plans for a singles career for shelton yet)
Whoever else is put together or missing from this list
The reason this could work from a business standpoint is that ECW as is cannot draw PPV buys, which is why they are just not getting a Decmber PPV, which is what? 6 months after they debuted. If that bombs, this plan might be very interesting to WWE. If RAW and SD! eliminate their tag titles, or the current champs from both brand jump to ECW and have a unification match, the title will be ECW exclusive and more respected. Every now and then ECW gets a spot on a RAW or SD! PPV to have a match for this belt, and it is defended at joint PPV's. A tag PPV alone couldn't draw big buys, so they won't try it, but if the december PPV bombs, they aren't going to try ECW PPV's for a while anyways.
Just a thought that I decided to share, what does everyone think?
My idea is that they completely bail on the idea of promoting ECW as Extreme (which they are already in the process of doing). Because they only have one hour, they do not introduce another singles title. Instead, they relocate tag teams to ECW, and make it the Tag team place. They only leave the ECW title there because it usually takes a solid singles match to draw the biggest possible crowd.
I will admit to only being familiar with RAW tag teams, I don't really know HEAT (If HEAT even exists anymore), or SD!, so this list is probably missing some teams
Cryme Tyme
Highlanders
Redneck Recking Crew
Spirit Squad splits in two making 2 new teams and leaves one guy in singles action on raw
London and Kendrick
Reunited Hardy Boyz
Reunited WGTT (if they don't have solid plans for a singles career for shelton yet)
Whoever else is put together or missing from this list
The reason this could work from a business standpoint is that ECW as is cannot draw PPV buys, which is why they are just not getting a Decmber PPV, which is what? 6 months after they debuted. If that bombs, this plan might be very interesting to WWE. If RAW and SD! eliminate their tag titles, or the current champs from both brand jump to ECW and have a unification match, the title will be ECW exclusive and more respected. Every now and then ECW gets a spot on a RAW or SD! PPV to have a match for this belt, and it is defended at joint PPV's. A tag PPV alone couldn't draw big buys, so they won't try it, but if the december PPV bombs, they aren't going to try ECW PPV's for a while anyways.
Just a thought that I decided to share, what does everyone think?