All sorts of different ECW news *Possible Spoilers*

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

- Credit: WrestlingObserver.com Newsletter

 

With the exception of Rob Van Dam as the posterboy of the new ECW promotion, who is on a downside guarantee right now of about $250,000, pretty much the entire talent roster for the new ECW is being signed to standard entry level roster contracts, which consists of a $75,000 downside guarantee. The contracts are structured for one year, with WWE having the option to extend them for two and three years. However, WWE also has the right to cut the talent on 90 day cycles if the ECW project is dropped.

 

Despite conflicting reports, Sabu was offered the standard $75,000 downside guarantee one-year deal that all new talent for the ECW project were offered. TNA came very close to matching the offer, and if accepted Sabu would have been cleared to work Japan and other indies to add to his total income, but with the ECW project he has the potential to make more in general if the company succeeds, and would take in income from a variety of other outlets - most notably merchandising.

 

- Credit: WrestlingObserver.com Newsletter

 

The only two matches confirmed for the ECW One Night Stand PPV on 6/11 are Rob Van Dam vs. John Cena for the WWE title, and Dean Malenko vs. Chris Benoit as another Eddie Guerrero tribute. Both Benoit and Malenko personally asked to do the match on that show. As things stand now neither Benoit or Malenko are going to be involved with the ECW promotion after the One Night Stand show.

 

The first ECW house show will be on 6/24 at the New Alhambra Arena, which of course is the old “ECW Arena.” That show will be two weeks after racing star Hermie Sadler promotes a TNA Wrestling show in the same building. The ECW house show will be one of five wrestling events in that area in the month of June as CZW runs on 6/10, CHIKARA Pro runs on 6/25, and Pro Wrestling Unplugged runs on 6/23.

 

- Credit: WrestlingObserver.com Newsletter

 

The past week has seen a lot of decisions made and attention focused on the ECW project. According to many, this is Vince McMahon’s new “pet project”, which is good for ECW fans as anything McMahon is heavily behind is something he will stop at nothing to get over. The general thought regarding the longevity of the ECW brand as a full-time returning entity is that it will start out hot due to the name value, but due to x-factors like the questionable roster, taping schedule and lack of TV, and general structure it will burn out fast.

 

ECW will be launched as a seperate brand on 6/7 during a special live broadcast on the USA Network. The show will be held in Dayton, Ohio that night from 9-11PM, and will be billed as “ECW vs. RAW vs. SmackDown!” as the feeling is Vince McMahon isn’t confident “ECW” can draw good ratings on its’ own, but that the addition of RAW and SmackDown! “superstars” on an ECW special show will make it seem special enough to draw a good number on an unfamiliar night. The show is designed to set a few angles up for the One Night Stand PPV airing on 6/11, that weekend.

 

- The PWTorch Newsletter reports that ECW will have their own marketing and production teams assembled to handle ECW-specific operations. All bookings however will be approved by WWE management before anything is final.

 

Despite being under the WWE umbrella, Heyman is expected to be given quite a big of freedom, aside from some pre-set guidelines about the general tone of the shows.

 

There you go as much ECW info as I can find right now, take from it what you will and hope you enjoy reading it all :P

 

ps. I will add to this thread with any new info that come sup rarther then keep doing more and more ECW threads so watch out for it :)

[Ryan 188]

All bookings however will be approved by WWE management before anything is final.

 

I can see people moaning about that.

 

Despite being under the WWE umbrella, Heyman is expected to be given quite a big of freedom, aside from some pre-set guidelines about the general tone of the shows.

 

Thats good because Heyman can push people that generally wont get such a push on the WWE rosters, people such as C.M Punk

[Guest horsemansmiler]

Since when did they announce the wwe title match?

[Guest Anime Otaku]

It's not been announced on TV if thats what you mean but the rumour mill has been going for a while saying it'd be Cena Vs RVD at the ONS.

[Guest horsemansmiler]

Yeah Yeah i know the rumours just that post makes it look like its been made as it says the only two deffiate matches are those two. i knew he was gonna use MITB at ONS just from that post it looked like match was booked

[Guest remi MPW]

any more news on if its gonna be on uk TV

 

its a Fact that everyone knows about so it is pretty much "BOOKED" in my opinion. remember his promo the night after he won MITB.

"when i use the MITB its gonna be Extreme

 

EDIT: Look at the bottom of your post - it's the Edit Button. Use it please.

[Guest Danny Styles]

great that Malenko vs Benoit is going ahead

 

also in news

The new ECW brand is in dire need of some top-level heels. Practically all of the major names joining ECW are babyfaces. They are going to have to go outside for top heels. Edge and JBL are not going to be full-time heels for the promotion. The leading candidate to be the top heel in ECW is Ken Kennedy.

 

Another name that has been brought up for a top heel role is Eric Bischoff. He is still under contract to WWE and he is being paid thousands of dollars a month to sit at home. Paul Heyman is said to be negative at the idea of bringing in Eric Bischoff.

 

Al Snow has been offered a talent contract and he will be a part of ECW's initial launch.

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not to thrileld about kennedy going there, while i don't get the hype surrounding him, Smackdown needs heels and shipping them of to some half a year promotion doesn't benefit smackdown, in fact i doubt this whole ECW thing benefits smackdown

[Guest horsemansmiler]

its a Fact that everyone knows about so it is pretty much "BOOKED" in my opinion. remember his promo the night after he won MITB.

"when i use the MITB its gonna be Extreme

 

I did say i knew he was using it at ONS. How its it booked cena could drop strap next week then how is he gonna fight rvd for title?

[DC 536]

I was thinking today about bringing in Eric Bischoff. Have him portray a version of the Cyrus character, but in his own style.....

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

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Bringing Eric Bischoff in as that type of character gives the ECW fans something to hate and rebel against. Before it was against the WWF/WCW. Its hard to rebel against the WWE when they're a part of it.

[Murph 93]

But if it's the smarter decision to make, to start a war, WWE will allow them to bash WWE.