Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Er, ECW was given the WWE machine and money and STILL couldnt sell out SHIT, fucking please man 
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klunderbunker
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Not around here sister. Typically those are deleted because we don't need multiple threads on any given topic in the same section.
Stormtrooper
Championship Contender
so they had 3,000 show up to a 2,000 seat arena. Good. They NEVER would get 20,000. And the raise in ticket prices would drive people away (they would have to severely raise prices, AND not give 99% of the audience the benefit of crowd interaction.
Born To Fly
Occasional Pre-Show
The WWE can't even fill a 20,000 seat arena more often than not. I know of people that have and I have been offered free tickets from the WWE to come to their local shows.
ECW was a niche following, I will cede that point. They could still fill some big arenas in the Mid-Atlantic and expand from there. There was room for it.
Stormtrooper
Championship Contender
ahh, that is funny, and I wish it worked.
Serious Mozzarella
Special Victims Unit
Cool.
ECW could have magically expanded that bingo hall by 10,000 seats, that still wouldn't have given them the revenue to properly expand. You see, the majority of the funding comes from sponsors, who wouldn't go NEAR ECW with the kind of shit they were putting on.
Why do you think the WWE went PG?
klunderbunker
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So people being in the arena with free tickets don't fill the arena? I would certainly think they would.
And ECW was a niche following that got hot for about a year and then tried to go too far and then it died because they tried to go too far.
Rhonda Rousey's Sports Bra
Kinda Sorta Old School
Someone is wrong. Let's guess who.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Sure, there WAS room to expand, becuase wrestling, and trash TV was riding high at that time. Yet, ECW still fucking BLED money.
Doomed, always. Only a matter of time.
Doomed, always. Only a matter of time.
Born To Fly
Occasional Pre-Show
I count at least five merged topics in the WWE section alone, probably missing a few. That's what I'm talking about. Sure, you have five or more threads, but you combine them.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
The person supporting the company that went out of business?
Yes Moz... but what they did was art! Bloody, brutal, uncreative, hit someone in the head with an iron skillet... ART!
Stormtrooper
Championship Contender
You're an idiot.
WWE during it's peaks EASILY. EASILY sold out (or got damn close) 20,000 seat areana. ECW never had more then 10,000 EVER. And WWE offering select free tickets doesn't mean anything, because they can afford to do that. ECW couldn't EVER afford to. And they would have had to give away at least a third of the tickets.
What are you talking about fill big arena's in the Mid-Atlantic? Sorry, the BEST chance they would have would be Philly and New York, and they wouldn't get close in either (again, that's if either arena would be even willing to take on their ultra-violent niche product).
klunderbunker
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Is there a point coming anywhere near here?
We have a single thread about topics. If someone makes another one, they get warned or infracted.
Rhonda Rousey's Sports Bra
Kinda Sorta Old School
Born To Fly
Occasional Pre-Show
My argument is thus...
ECW could have expanded and struck when the iron was hot. When they hit their popularity, I bet they could have filled the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia once every two months because people were that thirsty to see it. I grew up around the area, so I knew what it was all about.
If ECW played its cards right, sure, it might be alive today but the current era of wrestling has no place for the hardcore.
ECW could have expanded and struck when the iron was hot. When they hit their popularity, I bet they could have filled the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia once every two months because people were that thirsty to see it. I grew up around the area, so I knew what it was all about.
If ECW played its cards right, sure, it might be alive today but the current era of wrestling has no place for the hardcore.
Serious Mozzarella
Special Victims Unit
Born To Fly
Occasional Pre-Show
So why do you merge topics? I am genuinely interested.
klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
They tried this. It was called PPV. It failed. They tried again. It was called ECW on TNN. It failed. To rent a place that big you need more money. ECW didn't have it and the fans wouldn't pay it, so it wouldn't work. ECW was destined to be a small company with a niche audience and a feeding ground for the major companies. They tried to do more and they died.
shattered dreams
Hexagonal Hedonist
They are referring to you needing 35 threads to realize you were wrong about supposed "plot holes" and how that applies to practically every storyline.
Rhonda Rousey's Sports Bra
Kinda Sorta Old School
It really is amazing that this storyline has been going on for months upon months now and is nowhere near over.
Born To Fly
Occasional Pre-Show
Take a poll of people who were alive when ECW was alive at its height on this board and you'd be surprised. It was a good product and people loved it. Too bad those who control the money didn't think so. Unfortunately, that's what matters.
klunderbunker
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Because there's no need to have 5 threads all saying "What do you think Cena is going to do now?" What purpose could having more than one thread per topic serve other than cluttering and confusing things?
You just don't understand it, maaan.
It represents what my wall will look like after I shoot myself in the head from reading what some of the posters in this thread have said.
klunderbunker
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Would anyone else like me to throw Shattered Dreams in jail for a Thanksgiving gift to the forums?
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