[Official] What I would do to save ECW Thread.

[Shocky]

It's tough. I hate the WWECW, but we're stuck with it whether we like it or not. I don't agree with using the legacy of the Old ECW to sell the new one, but that ship has sailed along time ago.

So what I would do.

I said this on another thread, and I'm selling myself on it more and more. Shane McMahon wins the belt at Backlash, becomes the GM of ECW, and has Umaga as his personal bodyguard. How much would this piss people off to have the ECW title around a McMahon, enough to generate heat that the show is in desperate need of. I ship Lashley to Raw, because he just doesn't fit in on ECW.

Somehow you get two hours. I don't like the current CM Punk heel turn, i think this is just a cheap way to keep someone that Vince didn't create down until he decides what he wants to do with him. ECW is lacking in serious star power right now. RVD or Sabu will never sniff the title, and much of that is too their own doing. CM Punk having the title this young in his career would be a horrible mistake. I am very anti-put the belt on a young guy to get him over. Shane McMahon just seems to be the perfect fit right now. Van Terminator vs. McMahoninator at Summerslam, that would be sweet.

 

[watchingandwaiting]

Shane as Champ/GM would be interesting, but I'm going in a different direction for the GM. Ric Flair. It's pretty obvious that his full time in-ring days are coming to an end. But he's still super over and plenty credible as a wrestler and tough guy to appeal to the ECW crowd and can obviously still deliver on the mic. I think him being GM gives a lot of credibility to the brand and if Heyman is ever brought back, they could have some great verbal duals.

I don't like Lashley as the champ, but I think his fued with Snitsky could be interesting, even if it won't be a set of classic matches so I'm ok at least seeing how that goes.

There should be no ECW tag belts. I'd much rather see the tag belts unified and competed over by teams from all three brands. But if there are going to be ECW tag belts, I'd put them on a team of Elijah Burke and Matt Striker with Khali as a bodyguard. I'm sorry to bring Khali into this, but its obvious WWE is going to keep him around and this way he has two good mic workers to talk for him, doesn't really have to wrestle, and you have to admit the image of Elijah and Striker literally running and hiding behind Khali is a great mental image. They could fued with any 2 originals not named RVD and maybe a reformed FBI.

I also think, as it seems a lot of posters do, that TV Championship would be a good idea. It would give the younger guys something to go after outside of the Originals vs New Breed fued. I think a Tommy Dreamer, CM Punk and Monty Brown would be a foundation for a "TV Division"

 

[EPN17]

In a perfect world......

1. More PPV's. Somebody said this earlier and I think this is really hurting the storylines. If they don't have a big event where there can be a feuds can finally get closed, I think we're going to keep seeing RVD vs. Holly.......

2. DUMP LASHLEY SOMEWHERE ELSE! I can't stress that point enough. He's not a terrible wrestler, but he's got no emotion at all and no mic skillz. Also his moves are getting really predictable ( vertical suplex, running powerslam, spear, cover). No offense, but he isn't hardcore and he should be sent somewhere else.

3. Add Tag belts. I think these are a better choice then just a tv belt just because you can have more people feuding over them (would make the new breed vs. originals more interesting too) and you can push more ppl.

4. Some type of compromise with no rules matches. I know vince doesn't want more injuries but how the hell can it be ECW when nothing's extreme about it? I think it would be decent if they atleast brought back the one hardcore match a night, atleast it would make the show interesting.

Hopefully doing some of these would make the show a little bit more bearable.

 

[blowjoe5]

Give it its own tapings in moderately sized arenas to get the more intimate feel from the old ecw.

Give it a two hour show

Get rid of lashley

Bring Heyman back as head of creative (until later when bringing him back on screen as well)

send a couple of big stars over to make it work. I've said this before. Raw is the sports entertainment show, smackdown is the pure wrestling show, ecw should be the hardcore, grungy show, like raw in the attitude era. In my opinion send benoit and edge to the show.Edge/Rvd and benoit/punk matches would be great. All the guys can really wrestle and edge and benoit can go hardcore as well. Also, add an authority figure. While Heyman is the obvious, I think a great idea would be to have JBL 'buy' the struggling ecw brand and run it for a while along with a small stable and a chosen champion. (after the new breed fued runs its course obviously). JBL is a fantastic heel anyway and as he has genuine heat from ecw fans anyway, he has the potential to be booed out of the building, like the early nwo.

Add a tag team title, a television title and either bring back the hardcore rules altogether or else at least have a hardcore title.

Stop sending shit to ECW because you can't think of anything else to do with them, like snitsky and dupree. Holly is a good worker, I personally like the wrestlers in the new breed and think they could have a good future.

 

[TNA Smark]

To save the name, to save the innitials E.C.W you need to get rid of WWECW. E.C.W was more than a wrestling promotion, it was a fucking tradition. People went out every night and watched it. It had a new style of wrestling. It showcased more than the multi-million companies at that time(WWF and WCW) would offer there fans. E.C.W gave fans technical wrestling, Lucha Libre and above all anything goes(hardcore) wrestling. They brought it guys like Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero and etc. They made those stars and gave them chances. If there was no E.C.W there would be no WWF and no WCW. The talent pool was definitely E.C.W back than and thats where WWF and WCW looked for there main talent, theres no doubt about that. Let's look back at the monday nights war. WCW went after the WWECW roster signing several people from there roster including Sandman, Raven, The Public Enemy, Mike Awesome and etc. WWF would later get Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Dean Malenko, Chris Benoit and etc. The guys of today in WWE came from E.C.W. The least Mcmahon can do is get rid of WWECW and give the original E.C.W fans the legacy and memories of E.C.W. This might be my most passionate post ever but when you look at it, the fans at E.C.W were so passionate about the shows and for Vince to ressurect his own vision of E.C.W is a disgrace to the legacy of E.C.W. If your going to save it and try and get ratings up you put Paul Heyman in charge and give him FULL CONTROL. With WWE's money and Heyman's genius mind WWECW could be the most succesful brand in WWE. But that will never happen so WWECW will never be saved unless put out of its misury. Go back and give us our One Night Stand PPV's where they give us a piece of E.C.W for one night a year only.

 

[blowjoe5]

you have to remember though that vince is running a business not a charity. His job, while wanting to entertain fans, is to make money. Ecw was brilliant in it's day, but it didn't make money. You have to compromise some of it's integrity in order to make it work financially. You have to put some wwe guys in there etc. What vince want is to have ecw back as it was, and rightfully so, it failed. He wants to satisfy the old fans but also draw lots of new ones. To do this he has to make it a bit more accessible to the fair-weather fans. Ecw needs a new top heel and face. As i said i think edge and benoit should be sent to ecw. Give heyman creative control yes, but also it has to be made to wwe's standard. You can see more hardcore wrestling than ecw had in lesser promotions like czw. The new ecw should contain more hardcore matches, but not all. It should essentially be a slightly more hardcore orientated version of attitude era-raw. Nobody could complain about a championship race involving sabu, rvd, benoit, edge and punk. To be fair though I think sandman and dreamer have had their day. They could never be top stars again.

 

[TNA Smark]

The thing that makes this worse is that Vince took ideas from Paul Heyman and E.C.W in general. Remember when Undertaker crucified Stephanie and was going to marry her and when he crucified Stone Cold. Where do you think Vince got that idea from? E.C.W, Raven, Blue Meanie and Stevie Richards had already crucified Sandman way before that. WWE also depended on E.C.W when they co promoted. The same talent from E.C.W that he is jobbing out now is the same talent he put on his RAW show during the original invasion angle. Vince saw E.C.W as a rising prommotion so he made a deal with Heyman to do that invasion thing which was best for both companies but Heyman didn't know later on that Vince would shit on the promotion.

Did you just say we need to compromise? Vince should of never brought it back. A legacy is price less and making money is not more important than keeping a legacy exactly what it is and that is a legacy. I think they just need to send in more E.C.W originals for example, Rey Mysterio, Chris Benoit and etc which will build on there star power.

 

[grum999]

It can be saved by using these suggestions.They should make the slot 2 hours so a bigger range of matches can be used. Also they should have more extreme rules,ladders and tables matches to make it more exciting. Stop hosting it in big arenas , it was better when in old ecw iit was inclosed and the atmosphere is electric. WWE should bring back the ECW television title for the mid-lower card wrestlers to fight over like marcus cor von, kevin thorn and sandman to fight over. Also should bring back tag titles for the major brothers, new breed and any other team coming to ecw like cade and murdoch.For these to happen the time slot has to be 2 hours and some wrestlers from raw and smackdown should be moved.

Wrestlers like -

Jeff Hardy) showed in tna that he can wrestle hardcore and will bring a big face to the show to bring in better ratings.Also would challenge for ecw title.

Super Crazy) would be a good face since being an original and would bring a new fighting style to ecw.

Chavo Guerrero) brilliant heel and would challenge for the television title.


The naturals)could be great face team and would add depth to tag team
division.

billy kidman)good face or heel and would bring fast paced wrestling to ecw

kid kash)bring another original and could be a great face or heel

Mamaluke and Vito)reunite fbi, would be good heel tag team

Diamonds in the rough)great team and would be great heel team and would eventually move to raw or smackdown.Even could just bring back Skipper becuase he is great athletic wrestler.

Tajiri)good face due to being original and would be good lower card wrestler.

dudley boys) get them back from tna when there contract ends because they would be monster faces and would be great to see them back in a wwe ring to fight for the tag titles.

 

[watchingandwaiting]

So a lot of people have been suggesting that ECW should get a TV title again. Well Y2Jake's comment in the Judgement Day thread about how guys like Helms, London and Kendrick will never get onto PPVs now that they are tri-branded made me realize that WWE already has a title that would be perfect...the cruiserweight title. If they moved that, and the bulk of the cruiserweight division, over to ECW, would anyone who watches Smackdown really notice? They could even re-name it anything they wanted (except for Xtreme Cruiserweight Championship..I'd stop watching totally at that point) and allow bigger guys to compete for it also. Doing this will 1. add some talent to the ECW roster 2. give the existing ECW midcard something to go after 3. give the cruiserweights some well-deserved TV time 4. free up more time on Smackdown for other angles 5. actually let us see a real title match on ECW TV 6. be one less belt that WWE will have to cram onto its stupid tri-branded PPVs.

 

[Mexican Geek]

After all the releases, and especially Sabu's, RVD with no desire to stay full time schedule, Sandman probably released too, Man, i hate to say it, but i cant see much ECW in the future. Good move of Vince to win the ECW title, because you dont have to strip your champ on the TV show, and with Lashley almost full time with RAW, Snitsky getting small-promos and probably feuding with Cena for the WWE belt, i would only be worried about 5 guys: Punk(95% heading to RAW), Elijah (i would LOVE to see Elijah cutting promos with Edge, Kennedy and Booker on SD!) Monty B. (RAW probably) Matt Stryker (iwould put him on RAW too, good jobber and can tal on the MIC, feuds with Jeff Hardy, Santino, etc.) and Kevin Thorne (SD! 200%, imagine this guy vs. Undertaker in a match!!)
i'm totally agree to the fact that Vince is not Running a free- county fair, and if you dont have biz, well, you better focus on your other brands.
If Sabu, RVD, Sandman goes to TNA, i DEFINITELY will start to watch TNA also(WWE will be my favorite always, but not everybody thinks the same way...)

 

[Souls On Fire]

There are so many things that need to be done if this so called version of ECW is going to last....

First of all I feel Tag Belts are a must, with only one title on the whole show it makes you feel like everyone else has nothing to fight for. Especially since its Lashley and Mcmahon fighting over it. With the introduction of the Major Brothers it gives you the feeling that this might soon be in the works. i would also bring cryme time in as there seems to be no place for them on raw right now with the hardy's, cade and murdoch, the worlds greatest tag team and the newly formed nitro/dykstra. i feel it is a must to have more than one true tag team to seriously have a division so i would not include the new breed in this. though possible to help get it started. i wouldn't keep them together to long as they should be singles stars. another good addition would be to sign the naturals and bring them in. but it should feature a tag match every week but not the same 2 teams fighting all the time how can you be a contender when you have no wins over other teams. the titles should be introduced in a tournament to showcase how competive this division will be.

As for another title...while introducing the t.v title back would be great as it has a storied legacy...i would wait until they establish themselves as their own unique brand and possibly get a longer t.v. show...maybe move the cruiserweight title over so nunzio has some kind of use on t.v. but i would move super crazy to ecw for that as well as the rest of the cruisers from smackdown.

Bring back Mike Knox...where did he go? he was being built as a star in ecw and they dropped him. i would have him come back in and rekindle a feud with kelly kelly (because extreme expose is a waste of t.v. time) and have him managed by trinity.

Get the belt off vince...what a way to ruin a brand. you have a an ecw world championship and no one from ecw going after it. even worse than vince having it is lashley does not fit into this brand in anyway...have lashley win the title back and then feud with someone form ecw now thats an actually idea. i know they are building snitsky up so it looks like he'll be in line next. but i would think of pushing kevin thorn with his newfound attitude after leaving the new breed. he has something he's fighting for.

keep building c.m. punk as he is going to be a big sell for that company but don't rush putting a title on him untill maybe introducing the t.v title to give it credibilty from the start

Also bring in a few bigger names posibly with ecw history for example chris benoit and hopefully a returning chris jericho...this would give the ability to have the star power needed to try to put on a 2 hour show and then maybe introduce that t.v title for the midcarders...which should be defended on every tv show hence the name...

just some thoughts right now the lack of time on t.v. makes most of this impossible. though cutting out flashbacks to raw (hello different brand so you shouldn't have to see what the e.cw champ did on that show cause he shouldn't be on that show) and cutting out the expose would give you room for at least another match each week. feed back is welcome like to know what everyone thinks

 

[brahma62]

ecw needs to do some more extreme rules/hardcore matches. the "E" in ecw stands for extreme but there is nothing Extreme about it. People are getting DQ'ed because they go in to help their tag partner, its disgusting

 

[Slyfox696]

This is easy for me.

More Bobby Lashley.

Bobby Lashley must be a mainstay on ECW, and can't be jumping to Raw all the time. The guy is incredibly over, has got great charisma and is improving as quickly as anyone I've ever seen. He seems to be getting more and more comfortable on the mic, and I really think he is the next big thing in the WWE.

Second of all, they need his foil. Right now, they're building Snitsky, and I think he's a pretty decent big man, but he's just not getting over on ECW. I say they should just bring Umaga over to ECW, and let Lashley and Umaga tear the house down. Obviously, there needs to be a break in between their match at ONS and their next encounter, but I truly think there is the making of a very good feud. The only other guy I see on ECW that could challenge Lashley in the immediate future is Marcus Cor Von, but I just don't think Lashley is capable of carrying that fool yet.

Finally, they need to find a way to keep this Punk vs. Burke thing going, and find a way to have it put over both men. The New Breed vs. Originals was very entertaining, but with RVD leaving it kind of cut it short. They now need to get both Punk and Burke over to help carry the undercard to the Lashley vs. the world feud.

I think that would really make ECW much more entertaining.

 

[Shadowmancer]

I half agree with what you are saying slyfox, The Punk Vs. Burke feud does need to keep going and bring up a couple of very good Wrestlers. But they will be brought up to the main Event by the end of the yer, hopefully they don't have to carry the belt just yet as They should get a few main events going to get them really hot with the crowd.

On the other hand I think we should see less of Bobby Lashley as I feel that they pushed him to quickly into having a title, pretty much ruining what work they have already done with him, I have no problem with Lashley being in the Main Event, like the PPV last year with that fatal four way, where two seasoned veterans could work with him and that piece of Crap in the Ring Batista, It is just my view as if they quietly pushed Lashley as they were doing they may have gotten more reaction from the fans when he became champ, Vince saw this after that series of Matches he had with Test, he gave the fans that montage in a way to try get people behind lashley, it worked in a way, But i still stand by view that Lashley having the Top title and having to carry a brand at such a point in his career where he is not ready pretty much killed all credibility Lashley had before D2D last year. Don't get me wron I could see his potential when he first arrived on Smackdown but by doing what they did at D2D they did kill some of the crediblity of Lashley. get him back in the Stage where he was before D2D where he had an entertaining program with Finlay, have him matched up against veterans that can help to carry a brand, he didn't have it as champ except for everyone that liked RVDand the Originals, IMO e should have been placed in a feud with Dreamer to help build the guy as being ECW, this is just a bit of hindsight on my part as Dreamer was the Original ECW through and through even more than Sabu and RVD. So if Dreamer put him over it would be a different story altogether people would have some sort of feeling about him other than "Its Lashey, Meh" he doesn't have the emotional connection that Champions have, Cena has it, Vince McMahon has it, Edge has it, Triple H has it, RVD has it. I may not like Cena but as a champion this is one of the key things people care what happens with Cena, whereas Lashley doesn't have that.

 

[DHP]

How about acutally having a championship match under extreme rules every once in a while.

"Correct me if im off topic!! PLEASE!"

that's rigth!
the old ECW was one big Show with matchs under Extream Rules...
you would see guys like Sabu and Sandman kick each others ass with tables and Chairs....and all other kind of furniture...
Vince is holding the new ECW back...
Sabu gone...and RVD not resigning with WWE/ECW...it would only gone down...
Snitksy? Burke? They are not "EXTREAM".
ECW "EXTREAM CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING" is not what it hass been...

 

[Slyfox696]

"Correct me if im off topic!! PLEASE!"

that's rigth!
the old ECW was one big Show with matchs under Extream Rules...
you would see guys like Sabu and Sandman kick each others ass with tables and Chairs....and all other kind of furniture...
Vince is holding the new ECW back...
Sabu gone...and RVD not resigning with WWE/ECW...it would only gone down...
Snitksy? Burke? They are not "EXTREAM".
ECW "EXTREAM CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING" is not what it hass been...

This isn't the old ECW. The old ECW would not work with the way that the WWE is set up. The original ECW was not near as glamorous as people like to make it out to be now, and they actually benefited in many ways from not having exposure. What made the ECW so desirable to fans was specific, and normally, over the top, moments. Whether that moment be two guys bashing each other with cookie sheets, or New Jack flying off a balcony or Funk and Sabu wrapping themselves in barb-wire, it was always a case of "how can I top this".

At some point though, just like the WWE experienced with the Attitude era, there is no where else to go. And so, at some point, the show has to be solid, when the the over the top moments can no longer be relied upon. And, when a brand is on every week, it runs through the overtop stuff quickly. Then it has no where else to go.

Additionally, you cannot have your workers working hardcore matches 3 times a week (one on air, two houseshows). Their bodies just will not be able to keep up with that kind of physical beating.


Thus, the old ECW is dead, and would never work today under the WWE.

So, people need to accept it and move on. And, I think the WWE realized that a long time before us fans did.

 

[Mexican Geek]

i found this on wwe.com (live events tix section)

Tue, Nov 20, CW 44 Presents SmackDown - Tampa, FL 7:30 p.m.

you could say: "what's wrong with that Dude?" ...
...there's something wrong INDEED... does anybody notice that ECW is not listed?
mmhhmm, im wondering if my prediction of the end of ECW is true...
so what i would do to save ECW is: nothing, i think they are dead already (ok, until RVD is gone, then, whatever...)

 

[brahma62]

they are gonna start filming ecw with raw, Raw is coming down here on june 25th and they are filming ecw as well
the Elijah burke, cm punk fued needs to keep going, its gonna be the only thing holding ecw together since the new breed/originals storyline is done and rvd is leaving soon
and i would love to see a cor von/lashley fued alot more than a snitsky/lashley fued

 

[Mexican Geek]

From Good ol' JR's Blog:

Readers are right that Rey Mysterio lost a “loser leaves” match on Smackdown several months ago. Does that mean Rey will become a Monday Night Raw regular? I’m for it and we will all know in time, as Rey is scheduled to be 100% healthy soon. What if Rey went to ECW??

i know that one of the things JR's discuss more is the "IWC rumors" and he's always saying that he's not informed anymore of the creative situations....
but this makes sense in the matter that the main rummor for Summerslam is a Vince vs. Rey match, so this leave the possiblity of Mysterio going to ECW.
and you know what? right now, this would SUCK, just because RVD is almost gone, and Sabu left. those would had been GREAT matches between them.
To bad it's too late.
Who could feud with Rey RIGTH NOW in ECW?? Snitsky?? give me a break...
i curse the day when RVD was busted...(u know what im talkin about..)

 

[Afro-Ameri-Spawn]

Seriously? Is that your informed scientific analysis? Or just fancy spam? There is a reason ECW didn't just die like WCW did. It was a promotion that was actually loved throughout its entire tenure. There were never any other companies getting their names chanted during the competition's shows that I can remember. So obviously they must've done something right. Besides, WWE and WCW can thank Paul E. for supplying them with his developed talents that they each used to anchor their companies in numerous ways. That's not even mentioning the creative theft, which is a separate story altogether.

Actually, you are very correct. ECW didn't die like WCW did. ECW died WORSE than WCW did. ECW died bankrupt and disgrntled with TNN pissing on them out the door. WCW was purchased at the last minute and had a decent a respectful run. The NEW ECW is nothing like EC f'n W where guys were wrestling like their next meal depended on it. These guys wrestle like they have options in the future and really don't need to sweat. If you want to save ECW, then make it the new developmental brand where guys from both OVW and the new Florida wrestling go hoan their skills. Once they show they can make it in the big leagues, they go to the big shows. It helps to bring new faces up to the spotlight and for fans to be familiar with then while not getting bored of seeing the same ones over and over again. Mix in a some vets to help train the guys and you have a new wrestling alternative that the WWE owns. So you have big names and new names at the same time.

 

[Kasey]

^There are numerous things I don't like about the new "ECW." It exists as that entity in name only, as far as I'm concerned. The difference in a large amount of the wrestling outings within is that by comparison to the original ECW's finer moments, the matches themselves are fast food while the old stuff was fine dining at times. Not to say there wasn't mindless violence permeating the original, but that's part of the namesake. All I would've done with the new ECW is focus on getting the most solid wrestling matches and some consistency out of longer performances from the rookies. That is a glaring problem these days in the WWE as a whole. Most of the guys working on the shows can't execute a layout for a lengthy match unless there is an old-timer holding their hand. The one problem ECW had in the old days was that Heyman was a talent scouting and booking genius who did a hell of a lot with a little. He just sucked at the business end of things. Hell, they even sold out their last show and still bled money. The new ECW is the opposite. Fiscally responsible and stable as part of the WWE empire, but creatively bankrupt and dead in the ass when it comes to the programming.

 

[blowjoe5]

There's a crossroads for WWE at the moment. Whether to make Ecw a real brand like raw and smackdown or use it as basically a training camp. If that is the case though I don't think it should be called Ecw. I'm all for young guys, but at the moment it seems like everyone on Ecw is just hoping to make it to raw.
First and most importantly, Ecw needs a 2 hour, good timeslot at a time when it's primary audience will watch it.

Ecw needs a television title and the crusierweights to become equal. You could make Ecw watchable without sacraficing much star power at all.
If you sent edge as champ, do everything possible to keep rvd and send benoit over, you have three main event guys and punk soon. Send nitro as the main midcard heel, sometimes challenging at the top, and have him, burke, striker, cor von, dreamer etc all after the tv title. Maybe send thorne and/or burke to sd to compromise. Bring super crazy, (rey initially, to get the division going), chavo, helms etc and sign a few younger guys. Basically follow the wcw blueprint for this division.
After all of this you've given ecw edge, benoit, nitro and the SD cruisierweights, none of which are used propperly with the exception of Edge Not a bit outlay but would make it so much more watchable.

Personally i'm more in favour of splitting the tag titles between all three brands. That promises much better competition. If you say you have to have 3-4 teams on a brand, each with its own titles. that's 12 teams, each with 2 men. 24 men from the roster gone, for the sake of worthless titles.

next - get rid of lashley and snitsky. Snitsky back to heat and lashley wherever, but preferably not anywhere on tv.

Give heyman creative control, but don't put him back on tv initally. First a major storyline is needed to get interest in Ecw back. Personally i'd have something involving JBL as 'owner', maybe pretending to buy the strugling ecw show and running it. He'd generate enormous heat already, then give him a corporation style stable with edge or maybe orton as champ, nitro and melina in the midcard, helms or chavo as the c.w, a tag team and default muscle guy in there as well. Basically a group of natural heels, playing sellouts. Then have benoit, punk etc fued with them. This would get my interest anyway. After a while Heyman could come back, challenge JBl for 'control' and win. (Think of a ss match, heymans team vs JBLs or something). Then things resume as normal

Have more matches as extreme rules, but not all. ECW will never be like it used to be. It was a small fringe promotion with things that WWE really couldn't show on TV now, but make it like attitude

 

[ratedrsuperstartoronto]

To improve ECW I think that they need to get established tag teams or establish tag teams and then get the tag titles. They should also give Marcus Cor Von a push, not necessarily for the world title but to get him recognized. I also think that they should bring back Paul Heyman as the GM of ECW and have him feud with Vince, like Originals vs. New Breed Part 2 except this time with some authority figures. ECW also needs more wrestlers so they should bring in guys like Super Crazy, Benoit, and Rey or they could maybe bring in some guys from developmental or sign guys who are great wrestlers. They could maybe take some TNA talent away like Samoa Joe(who really isn't doing much in TNA now) or some X Division people like Sabin, Shelley or Lethal(Black Machissmo would be over, I think, on WWE television). I also think that they should resign RVD and make in ECW champ sometime in the future.

 

[FTWChamp]

To improve ECW I think that they need to get established tag teams or establish tag teams and then get the tag titles. They should also give Marcus Cor Von a push, not necessarily for the world title but to get him recognized. I also think that they should bring back Paul Heyman as the GM of ECW and have him feud with Vince, like Originals vs. New Breed Part 2 except this time with some authority figures. ECW also needs more wrestlers so they should bring in guys like Super Crazy, Benoit, and Rey or they could maybe bring in some guys from developmental or sign guys who are great wrestlers. They could maybe take some TNA talent away like Samoa Joe(who really isn't doing much in TNA now) or some X Division people like Sabin, Shelley or Lethal(Black Machissmo would be over, I think, on WWE television). I also think that they should resign RVD and make in ECW champ sometime in the future.

Wow is it safe to say that this was the post to kill the thread. I mean honestly, does an intelligent wrestling fan believe that WWE is going to steal all this talent away from TNA? I'm a huge wrestling fan, I watch WWE and TNA constantly but who honestly believes that TNA is just going to have a majority of their talent signed away and who believes they would all go to ECW? Samoa Joe is not going to WWE anytime soon. He's not doing much?!? He's probably going to be the TNA Champ come Slammiversary! Also does anyone think that WWE can steal away Sabin, Shelly, and/or Lethal? I think all these guys should be able to look at WWE and realize that they would get buried in the WWE as soon as they stepped foot in the door. All three of these guys would sadly get burried in the Cruiserweight Division and they would be feuding with Jimmy Yang Wang or some other bum. I mean I am all for hearing of ways to save the sinking ship that is ECW but it would be nice to hear some plausible solutions.

Didn't mean to totally bury you on this post. I do agree that they should push Cor Von if he stays on ECW through the draft and it would be fun to see Heyman and Vince in a power struggle, I just don't see it happening with the way things were left before. If Heyman does come back, I could see him as a manager more than ECW's GM.

 

[Benji K]

SImply all that needs to be done to save ECW is to give it a better line up! Get rid of Extreme Expose and bring up there actual talent Benoit/Corvon/Punk/Mysterio/Snitsky

Also bring back extreme rules all the time.

I heard they were going to bring back the ECW Tag titles which is a huge mistake, they would be better to bring back the WWE Hardcore titles for the midlevel wrestlers and the originals to continue doing what they do best. Personally i really want to see Sandman turn heel and have the hardcore title, those matches would kick ass.

I would also agree though. A GM needs to be put in place someone like HHH. He could be a killer heel GM. Like on Raw vs Smackdown 2007