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Hisstank Wrestling Thread -Ongoing and All Eras
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03-06-2011, 03:45 AM
Sgt Major Haley
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ECW has taken on this legendary status because it was so grass roots and no-frills, basically because it was alternative.
I'm going to stick my neck out here and throw a bag of tacks under the wheels of this bandwagon. And I call it a bandwagon because sometimes embracing the alternative becomes mainstream - like tattoos.
ECW was a second-rate operation with mid-card talent, and the fact that it overachieved enough to catch anybody's attention is its only claim to fame.
I was watching regularly, WCW, WWF and ECW, I went to shows -- RVD is a wrestler who has earned his place in wrestling history, but was essentially a big fish in a small pond, and could never carry a major brand top title. Mike Awesome's true quality came out in WCW with a lackluster run. Tommy Dreamer is a local legend without the charisma to make it anywhere else, and Stone Cold wouldn't even know Sandman if he was sitting next to him at a bus stop.
All the hardcore nonsense was a contrived farce that only further strained one's ability to suspend disbelief. Its contributions to the major brands were a poison rather than a benefit, as we had to endure Norman Smiley getting hit over the head with a cookie sheet every week, and Crash Holly wrestling in bathrooms.
I'm not saying this to be nasty, I enjoyed the shows I went to, and some of those guys were solid mid-card talent, but the facts are what they are. Just because this mom & pop shop got trendy doesn't mean it represented greatness any more than that kid who played Lady Gaga on the piano at his school talent show deserves to be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame.
-Blackwell
Calling it a "bandwagon" isnt really fair to the product. ECW in its upstart years and early heyday were huge in the Philly and Western Pa Areas. But that was also one of the downfalls of it too. In Pittsburgh, the only station that carried it on Saturday nights was a local access channel, and it sometimes didnt have it on.
When Mike Awesome as well as any wrestler that switches a company needs to be writen right. There have been countless times were a wrestler falls by the way side or just gets jobbed because they dont have a good story for them. Look at Stevie Richards, how many times has he gone to a company and because he gets handled poorly and fades behind the scenes.
I dissagree with you on it being a "poison" on the big 2. The big wanted to be something they were not. As a resault, we got the Norman Smalleys and the Crashes and Sparkplug Hollys of the biz. Again, all comes down to writing.
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