| Re: ECW: Failure or Major Success?
It's failed epically if they -
Created this brand to have an addtional PPV stream.
Created it to have a ratings winner (albeit by Sci Fi standards...maybe!)
Created it have extra house show revenue
I would suspect they would have wanted all of the above to have happened.
However, in terms of creating new stars, we're still at the wait and see stage (but only just). CMPunk seems to be their only performer that gets pops like a star, and he (I don't think) gets them because of his ECW work, so I don't think it could be argued that ECW even helped much in his development....maybe it even hindered.
They do have guys like Elijah, John Morrison and Kofi that all entertain me a lot. Will those guys go on and become main eventers? Doubtful, maybe Morrison has a chance.
So in terms of ECW being the C show that develops stars, it seems to have failed also.
The single only aspect of the ECW that may have created "money" and succeeded is just in keeping the brand name alive for the quantity of retro ECW DVD's that have been released in recent years. And that doesn't say a lot.
So no, I can't really see how this brand has succeeded at all. It's (as we have said many times) The Velocity Show and when WWE make it seem as singularly unimportant as they do, why the hell should fans care. |