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If Rob Van Dam hadn't got injured in early 2000 and forfeited the ECW TV Title, do you think the revenue from the proposed title vs title match between him and Mike Awesome could of saved the company until they potentially got a new tv deal? Or were they already dead in the water by this point in time? Opinions?
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ECW were like $7 million in the hole already, I cant see RVD/Mike Awesome generating enough to get them out of a $7 million dollar dept. Plus its all about TV deals, they had none.
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The only thing that would have saved ECW was a great TV deal with an infusion of cash. Neither were coming. Nobody creatively or whatever else would have made a bit of difference without that.
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Yes, Heyman as head of creative, Todd as the business man. It was going well until Heyman stole the firm off Todd.
Heyman bought it from Tod Gordon in 1995, so I would hardly say it went downhill from that point on.
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Yes' date=' Heyman as head of creative, Todd as the business man. It was going well until Heyman stole the firm off Todd.[/quote']Heyman bought it from Tod Gordon in 1995, so I would hardly say it went downhill from that point on.
Many said he embezzled the firm from Tod, but we will go with bought.
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Many said he embezzled the firm from Tod, but we will go with bought.
Who says that?

 

Anyway, that's neither here nor there; you said that the company went downhill after Heyman took it over from Gordon and that is blatantly not true.

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Goldberg could have saved ECW
Sheeeeeet I cant even tell if you're being serious or taking the piss!

 

One does not simply joke about Goldberg

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The unquestioning support of an investment company who's money and common sense are inversely proportionate to one another?
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Where in the f*ck did you hear this. :lol

 

Dixie Carter wasn't even involved in the wrestling business when ECW did its last show.

 

I think he was trying to suggest that Carter might have pumped cash into the ailing ECW as she and her family's company has done with TNA, rather than putting on a last edition of Nitro as Vince McMahon did with WCW before swallowing it up into WWE.

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Caught the end of a show on the network the other day where Dreamer thanked Dixie for making it possible and got her into the ring etc. I assume it was either the last ppv, or the last ecw tv. Don't really know what else it could have been.
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It would have been an ECW tribute show TNA did a few years back. Hardcore Justice I believe it was called.

 

That'd make sense.

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Guest The Beltster

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Still doesnt explain how that would be on WWE Network...they obviously arent showing TNA shows from a few years back.
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