A few thoughts on ECW: One Night Stand
A few thoughts on ECW: One Night Stand
Briefly:
The WWE needs to hire Joey Styles. His match calling was easily the best we've heard, well, since Joey Styles last called an ECW show. Forget Michael Cole. Hire Joey Styles. I don't know that it could have been an ECW show without Joey calling it.
Highlights of the night?
Jericho reversing Lance Storm's knee bridge into the Walls of Jericho. It's a simple thing, but sometimes it's the simple things that are the sweetest.
Super Crazy moonsaulting off the balcony.
Super Crazy moonsaulting everywhere.
Rob Van Dam cutting his promo on the writers employed on Raw and Smackdown.
The Mike "No Mullet This Time" Awesome/Masato Tanaka match was my favorite match of the night, but only because I like watching people beat the shit out of each other with steel chairs.
Paul Heyman jumping on Bischoff, Edge and Bradshaw in his promo.
The show itself was probably the most enjoyable program, top to bottom, associated with WWE television in a long, long time. Which I hope sends a message to those at the top of the WWE ladder, because virtually nobody associated with the Raw or Smackdown creative teams had anything to do with this one. With the exception of the giant schmozz attack on the crusaders and the assault on Eric Bischoff, this had a lot of the feel of an ECW show. Which is largely why the Evil Hippy bought the show, and mostly why I wandered to his house to watch the thing.
This show had more energy from open to close than any show produced in America this decade. That's counting everything the WWF/WWE has done, anything the NWA-TNA has done, and anything your XPW's and Ring of Honors have done. And this show ran at something like 75% of the intensity of the best ECW shows from 95, 96 or 97.
I just hope somebody at Stamford was paying attention.
My wish? That the buy rate was high, and that customer satisfaction ran something along the same lines of my own feelings. Then, we set ECW up as a brand of its own, give it an hour of TV a week somewhere and let it run a couple or three pay per views a year. Set it up as a breeder/feeder for some of the younger WWE talent. Along with that, make it a home to guys like Tommy Dreamer, Rhyno, Kid Kash...guys who pour their hearts into their work but don't quite fit into the World Wrestling Entertainment mold. There's a niche market for it, and if you keep production costs low, you can turn a profit with a show that isn't trying to be all things to all people.
But if tonight was it, I think Paul Heyman and company can be proud of what they've done.
Briefly:
The WWE needs to hire Joey Styles. His match calling was easily the best we've heard, well, since Joey Styles last called an ECW show. Forget Michael Cole. Hire Joey Styles. I don't know that it could have been an ECW show without Joey calling it.
Highlights of the night?
Jericho reversing Lance Storm's knee bridge into the Walls of Jericho. It's a simple thing, but sometimes it's the simple things that are the sweetest.
Super Crazy moonsaulting off the balcony.
Super Crazy moonsaulting everywhere.
Rob Van Dam cutting his promo on the writers employed on Raw and Smackdown.
The Mike "No Mullet This Time" Awesome/Masato Tanaka match was my favorite match of the night, but only because I like watching people beat the shit out of each other with steel chairs.
Paul Heyman jumping on Bischoff, Edge and Bradshaw in his promo.
The show itself was probably the most enjoyable program, top to bottom, associated with WWE television in a long, long time. Which I hope sends a message to those at the top of the WWE ladder, because virtually nobody associated with the Raw or Smackdown creative teams had anything to do with this one. With the exception of the giant schmozz attack on the crusaders and the assault on Eric Bischoff, this had a lot of the feel of an ECW show. Which is largely why the Evil Hippy bought the show, and mostly why I wandered to his house to watch the thing.
This show had more energy from open to close than any show produced in America this decade. That's counting everything the WWF/WWE has done, anything the NWA-TNA has done, and anything your XPW's and Ring of Honors have done. And this show ran at something like 75% of the intensity of the best ECW shows from 95, 96 or 97.
I just hope somebody at Stamford was paying attention.
My wish? That the buy rate was high, and that customer satisfaction ran something along the same lines of my own feelings. Then, we set ECW up as a brand of its own, give it an hour of TV a week somewhere and let it run a couple or three pay per views a year. Set it up as a breeder/feeder for some of the younger WWE talent. Along with that, make it a home to guys like Tommy Dreamer, Rhyno, Kid Kash...guys who pour their hearts into their work but don't quite fit into the World Wrestling Entertainment mold. There's a niche market for it, and if you keep production costs low, you can turn a profit with a show that isn't trying to be all things to all people.
But if tonight was it, I think Paul Heyman and company can be proud of what they've done.
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