goodbye ECW

If you haven’t heard already, This week we saw the last episode of the new ECW, as next week it will be replaced by NXT.

Most online fans are actually happy with this move, stating that it wasn’t the real ECW, it wasn’t hardcore enough, wasn’t as edgy and certainly didn’t have the prestige it once had.

True some of the above statements are factual. But it depends how you look at it.

Were currently in the PG family era of wrestling, hardcore wrestling died somewhat 8 years ago, and in today’s world, the old ECW just would not survive.

But to say that the new ECW needed to be like the old is wrong. ECW was all about being different, and it still was. It wasn’t Smackdown or RAW, it was ECW. Were you saw actual wrestling and young guns getting a start in WWE. ECW gave the likes of Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston a start, while veterans like Goldust and Regal proved they were still valuable. In fact Goldust hasn’t looked this good in years. And it’s really all thanks to the structure of this show.

I truly believe Tommy Dreamer sums it up in his blog what this show was –“Well lets look at what the world likes to call the WWE's greatest blunder the XFL. It looked like a great idea on paper. It had great network support but after the first week and great ratings, those ratings started to fall. Why? I feel the level of play. Many die hard football fans realized that there was a reason the players were not in the NFL. Maybe they just did not belong. That could also hold true to the tv show ECW, no matter how hard we all worked, it could never be what it was, for so many reasons, I do not want to get into.


However everyone wants to knock Vince McMahon for the XFL, but look at this many aspects of the XFL have been stolen by the NFL. The field camera view. The behind the scene lockeroom stuff. Having the viewer be almost on the field at all times, was what the XFL was all about. The NFL Network and every channel that carries football now does what that XFL tried to bring. So instead of blaming Vince. He deserves some credit for shaping the NFL the way it is today. As well as having the grapefruits for taking on the task.If you think about it Vince McMahon's vision good or bad has us all talking about his actions.”

This could not be any truer. ECW showed us that you could never count a wrestler out if he or she has hit the wall. It showed us that young superstars can in fact run with the ball if you chose to give it to them, and it showed us just how great a simplistic wrestling program can be.

I truly hope this isn’t the last ECW, maybe one day it will come back. Who knows? Maybe as the original hardcore wrestling program. Or maybe as a show which gave people a chance.

Either way it will be missed. And those who wanted it to end will wish they never said that

Goodbye ECW.