ECW is dead, enter WWE NXT (Also Tommy Dreamer is annoying)

by David Bixenspan on Feb 3, 2010 12:56 AM EST in WWE

Vince McMahon announced tonight on ECW that the show will be dead in 3 weeks, to replaced by some big new concept, believed to be a show called WWE NXT (Next generation...but edgier!), as they've registered a trademark for it. No idea yet if the belt will be retired or renamed. On Twitter, Tommy Dreamer noted that this was part of why he left WWE, which means he may in fact be the biggest mark in the wrestling business since the original promotion has been dead for 9 years. I don't think he was pissed off when the Savoldis stopped using the ICW name, was he?

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Dreamer is seriously passionate about the biz. I don’t blame him, I think it was stupid to bring back the ECW name without letting it be what it used to be. It sucks because the old ECW was special. I think they should’ve brought it back, kept it the way of Paul E. and put it on late Saturday nights. Forget the family friendly crap. ECW was never the same since the 2nd ONS PPV.

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by Andrew Tolliver on Feb 3, 2010 9:08 AM EST reply actions

You mean it wasn’t dead already? So ECW is being replaced by a bunch of up and coming superstars, and won’t be using much of the Extream Rules that we’ve seen in the past on ECW? You business as usual? It’s just the name change that should have taken place before we had ECW as a stand-alone show.

by Troy J. on Feb 3, 2010 9:09 AM EST reply actions

DREAMER/KOBASHI/FLAIR THREE WAY HANDSHAKE. BOOK IT GABE!

Seriously, Dreamer is a moron. I’m sure Vince loses sleep every night wonder what the janitor-looking guy who wrestled in t-shirts is going to do next.

by Mike Garza on Feb 3, 2010 11:01 AM EST reply actions

I think Dreamer prefers Contracted Cleaner. or Custodian.

by Troy J. on Feb 3, 2010 11:07 AM EST reply actions

Apologies, all around.

by Mike Garza on Feb 3, 2010 11:42 PM EST up reply actions

To be fair to Tommy Dreamer, what was WWE going to do with him after they scrapped ECW other than wish him well on his future endeavors? He wouldn’t fit in with the branding of the new show and if they saw him as a talent that was good enough to use on Raw and Smackdown, he wouldn’t have retired and taken the talent relations job in 2004. Tommy Dreamer wasn’t much of a mark for quitting a job he was going to lose soon anyway. If anything, he was a much bigger mark almost 4 years ago when he quit his office job to come back as a full time wrestler of an inevitably doomed reincarnation of the promotion he became a star in.

by Keith Harris on Feb 3, 2010 12:46 PM EST reply actions

Just how many ECW stars are currently in WWE? Lets see, RVD? Gone. Rhino? Gone. Sabu? Gone. Sandman? Gone. Dreamer was the last of the ECW crossovers. It was only a matter of time.

by Troy J. on Feb 3, 2010 3:21 PM EST reply actions

Rey Rey

Is he the last one who was actually in ECW that still wrestles in WWE?

by Silentjay on Feb 4, 2010 1:27 AM EST up reply actions

Jericho spent some time in the original ECW

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by Gobroks on Feb 6, 2010 2:51 AM EST up reply actions

That doesn’t count. Stone Cold and a hand full of other wrestlers were at one point with ECW. But they left before WWE devoured ECW. So, yes, Dreamer was the last ECW holdover wrestling in the WWE.

by Troy J. on Feb 6, 2010 11:59 AM EST up reply actions