The Legend Killer said:
whats so bad about the new ecw ? i mean honestly just because its part of wwe now doesn't ean its shit, but i will say some parts of the show like kelly's exposure is pointless and i hate her cos shes so amature, and i'd like to see the sand man in a match once in a while and not just coming out at random points of the show and caneing some guy to death. but i love the main events that ecw have put on so far. ame one bad main event since the project started. i cant, they were all good. the extreme battle royal, randy orton and edge vs kurt anle and rvd, rvd vs kurt angle, rvd vs the big show and just recently big show vs ric flair which was an out standing match.
ECW constantly featured contests between evenly matched competitors. With WWECW, it's so easy to predict the outcome of every single match. I don't think I have been wrong once since the show debuted on Sci-Fi. Credit where it's due: The Big Slow and Grandpa Ric did put on a good match for their abilities. But the fact remains that this match featured a WWE Superstar vs. a WWE "Defector", and felt more like a WWE Hardcore Match than an ECW Match.
In addition, many great ECW wrestlers have been reduced to jobber status (Balls Mahoney, Stevie Richards, former ECW Tag Team Champ Danny Doring,
former ECW World Heavyweight Champion Justin Credible!), the matches are far less intense, the great entrance themes for each wrestler have mostly been replaced (Sandman and Credible now have themes that are just
horrible), and they're bringing in talentless morons who are betting off mopping the arena floors (Kelly Kelly, Mike Knox, Fertig). Where the hell are New Jack, Steve Corino, Bill Alfonso, Cyrus, Joel Gertner, Stephen DeAngelis, Francine, Beulah, etc.? They deserve a spot on the roster more than these idiots. CM Punk looks promising and Test seems to have improved, but I'm not holding out much hope for the new faces of ECW.
The worst thing of all is this: With the occasional exception,
all ECW Matches are officiated under WWE Rules!!!!! This more than anything else proves to me that Vince McMahon doesn't understand what ECW was about, and for all we know, he may have never watched it. In actual sports, the best General Managers scout other teams for players, tips, and other ways to improve
their team. I doubt Vinnie Mac does this. In fact, the only reason why the Attitude Era even happened is because someone told him about the NWO in WCW and the edgy storylines in ECW - they were forced to change due to falling ratings. Now it's back to business as usual since there is limited competition, and we have wrestling pirates, boogeymen, vampires, fitness experts, and other gimmicks. It might as well be 1995 all over again. Maybe if Vinnie actually watched ECW once or twice, it could have been decent. If he insists on having complete control, maybe he should watch a few matches - he owns the whole ECW tape library, so there's no excuse not to.
