Was ECW all it was cracked up to be?

[Johnny Guitar]

ECW on home video and PPV often came across as sloppy, disorganized and nonsensical.

 

Heyman's real strength was as an editor. Because as TV show where it could be edited down, shuffled around and had the promos and music videos added, it came across a 100% better.

 

Its a shame that throughout its history ECW never became a viable finical option for most wrestlers if they had interest from WCW or the WWF. A viable third option would have been a massive boon to the industry in a ton of ways.

 

Plus from a purely selfish standpoint we could have gotten a longer run from Austin and possible runs from Flair, Savage and Bret.

[Sidebottom]

 

For every consistently great show from top to bottom you had (i.e. Anarchy Rulz 99, Guilty as Charged 2000, Heat Wave 98) you had an equally dud card from top to bottom such as Wrestlepalooza 1998 (which for my money was the worst card of 1998) and November to Remember 1999.

 

My favorite ECW match is on that top to bottom dud NTR99.

 

 

[iamthedoctor]

I never saw it as a top major company. Did it even do one big arena?

 

Around the late 1990s was there any other wrestling company aside from WWF & WCW that did PPVs on a regular basis?

[fxnj]

I think people are way too harsh in talking about ECW's spotty quality. The cards didn't have technical classics top-to-bottom, but the promotion still worked to make things constantly entertaining. Even with the filler you could still tell that Joey and the crowd were having fun and having a great time being there, and just by that alone I'd much rather watch lower-end ECW over lower-end WWE where it just feels like a waste of time for all parties involved. Christian/Swagger and Christian/Regal are still the best things to come out of ECW, though.

[ButchReedMark]

 

I never saw it as a top major company. Did it even do one big arena?

 

Around the late 1990s was there any other wrestling company aside from WWF & WCW that did PPVs on a regular basis?

 

 

The fact that PPV money was a reason they closed makes your point redundant.

[Sean Liska]

Not getting paid PPV money they were owed (as goes the story), not from failing on PPV.

[JaymeFuture]

Want to thank everybody for the feedback - we read a good bit of it on the podcast, and the show is now online to listen to at the following link:

http://squaredcirclegazette.podbean.com/mf/web/59xfi2/SCGRadio13-WasECWAllItWasCrackedUpToBe.mp3