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Again, for those of you who haven't heard, WWE are planning on putting on what they have described as an 'ECW Brand Pay-Per-View' in 2005. The details are still being finalised but a June/July date is looking likely.
This is already causing problems backstage. Recently Vince has been taking more of a back seat and allowing Stephanie more control over the WWE product. When Vince came up with the idea of the ECW PPV, his idea was to bring in all the big ECW names who currently don't work for the WWE (Sandman, Raven, Shane Douglas, Terry Funk etc) on one-night-only deals to work alongside the existimng members of the roster with ECW backgrounds (RVD, Rhyno, Tajiri...). Stephanie is diameterically opposed to this idea and wants to use only existing members of the roster, supplimented by guys whoo are on the roster but ddn't work for ECW (so what's the point in having an ECW PPV then Steph?). It'll be interesting to see if Vince pulls rank on Stephanie, or if he lets his daughter have her own way.
Related to this, Paul Heyman was expexcted to be given total creative freedom of control over the PPV. Heyman had recently returned to the Smackdown writing team at the request of Vince McMahon. Now, not that I'm a conspiracy theorist but it seems Stephanie has had Heyman removed form the writing team again, over an incident where a Raw booking meeting was disrupted by someone who wasn't accounted for suddenly leaving the conference call. Stephanie seems to have pinned this on Heyman somehow. (Don't like the idea of having someone on the team with ideas that are better than your own Steph? Or someown booking a PPV that would be more succesful than your own?) Heyman is now no longer on the writing team and no longer travelling on the Road as Heidenreich's manager, so he may be gone form the WWE altogether.
What Stephanie doesn't seem to understand however is that Heyman = ECW. Without him, there no point putting on an ECW brand PPV as the ECW fans will poop on it from a great height...
This is already causing problems backstage. Recently Vince has been taking more of a back seat and allowing Stephanie more control over the WWE product. When Vince came up with the idea of the ECW PPV, his idea was to bring in all the big ECW names who currently don't work for the WWE (Sandman, Raven, Shane Douglas, Terry Funk etc) on one-night-only deals to work alongside the existimng members of the roster with ECW backgrounds (RVD, Rhyno, Tajiri...). Stephanie is diameterically opposed to this idea and wants to use only existing members of the roster, supplimented by guys whoo are on the roster but ddn't work for ECW (so what's the point in having an ECW PPV then Steph?). It'll be interesting to see if Vince pulls rank on Stephanie, or if he lets his daughter have her own way.
Related to this, Paul Heyman was expexcted to be given total creative freedom of control over the PPV. Heyman had recently returned to the Smackdown writing team at the request of Vince McMahon. Now, not that I'm a conspiracy theorist but it seems Stephanie has had Heyman removed form the writing team again, over an incident where a Raw booking meeting was disrupted by someone who wasn't accounted for suddenly leaving the conference call. Stephanie seems to have pinned this on Heyman somehow. (Don't like the idea of having someone on the team with ideas that are better than your own Steph? Or someown booking a PPV that would be more succesful than your own?) Heyman is now no longer on the writing team and no longer travelling on the Road as Heidenreich's manager, so he may be gone form the WWE altogether.
What Stephanie doesn't seem to understand however is that Heyman = ECW. Without him, there no point putting on an ECW brand PPV as the ECW fans will poop on it from a great height...
I knew that Heyman was keen on the Cruiserweights and thats why most of the Smackdown Cruiserweights have been put on Velocity now he has gone...Cruiserweights were getting a fairly big part on Smackdown until he left, i find cruiserweights good for high flying moves, rather than JBL cheating his way to winning all the time.
An ECW PPV would be great, so long as it doesn't turn out like Invasion, which was bloody awful.
Lipe wrote:
> I think this shows us a little preview of the stupid ideas Stephanie
> is going to bring forward once Vince hands the WWE over.
Yes, we are doomed. And with TNA gone from TWC to all intents and purposes, I can't see 2005 being a great year for wrestling.
> I think this shows us a little preview of the stupid ideas Stephanie
> is going to bring forward once Vince hands the WWE over.
Yes, we are doomed. And with TNA gone from TWC to all intents and purposes, I can't see 2005 being a great year for wrestling.
I think this shows us a little preview of the stupid ideas Stephanie is going to bring forward once Vince hands the WWE over.
I like the idea of the ECW PPV but no, it wouldn't work without Heyman and using all WWE wrestlers is just a stupid idea.
*cough* i was so enraged i posted twice *cough* :-D
How can you have a ECW PPV without Heyman?? It's just another example of the stupidity that runs through WWE at the moment. No Steph putting crappy WWE superstars into the PPV would just make it like another Heat or Velocity. We don't want them there, we want the old proper ECW wrestlers and for god sakes we want Joey Styles!!!!!!!
Heyman recently said on a radio show that he was still under contract for a few more months but no contract negotiations have been made. Perhaps they are just going to let it run out.
Again, for those of you who haven't heard, WWE are planning on putting on what they have described as an 'ECW Brand Pay-Per-View' in 2005. The details are still being finalised but a June/July date is looking likely.
This is already causing problems backstage. Recently Vince has been taking more of a back seat and allowing Stephanie more control over the WWE product. When Vince came up with the idea of the ECW PPV, his idea was to bring in all the big ECW names who currently don't work for the WWE (Sandman, Raven, Shane Douglas, Terry Funk etc) on one-night-only deals to work alongside the existimng members of the roster with ECW backgrounds (RVD, Rhyno, Tajiri...). Stephanie is diameterically opposed to this idea and wants to use only existing members of the roster, supplimented by guys whoo are on the roster but ddn't work for ECW (so what's the point in having an ECW PPV then Steph?). It'll be interesting to see if Vince pulls rank on Stephanie, or if he lets his daughter have her own way.
Related to this, Paul Heyman was expexcted to be given total creative freedom of control over the PPV. Heyman had recently returned to the Smackdown writing team at the request of Vince McMahon. Now, not that I'm a conspiracy theorist but it seems Stephanie has had Heyman removed form the writing team again, over an incident where a Raw booking meeting was disrupted by someone who wasn't accounted for suddenly leaving the conference call. Stephanie seems to have pinned this on Heyman somehow. (Don't like the idea of having someone on the team with ideas that are better than your own Steph? Or someown booking a PPV that would be more succesful than your own?) Heyman is now no longer on the writing team and no longer travelling on the Road as Heidenreich's manager, so he may be gone form the WWE altogether.
What Stephanie doesn't seem to understand however is that Heyman = ECW. Without him, there no point putting on an ECW brand PPV as the ECW fans will poop on it from a great height...
This is already causing problems backstage. Recently Vince has been taking more of a back seat and allowing Stephanie more control over the WWE product. When Vince came up with the idea of the ECW PPV, his idea was to bring in all the big ECW names who currently don't work for the WWE (Sandman, Raven, Shane Douglas, Terry Funk etc) on one-night-only deals to work alongside the existimng members of the roster with ECW backgrounds (RVD, Rhyno, Tajiri...). Stephanie is diameterically opposed to this idea and wants to use only existing members of the roster, supplimented by guys whoo are on the roster but ddn't work for ECW (so what's the point in having an ECW PPV then Steph?). It'll be interesting to see if Vince pulls rank on Stephanie, or if he lets his daughter have her own way.
Related to this, Paul Heyman was expexcted to be given total creative freedom of control over the PPV. Heyman had recently returned to the Smackdown writing team at the request of Vince McMahon. Now, not that I'm a conspiracy theorist but it seems Stephanie has had Heyman removed form the writing team again, over an incident where a Raw booking meeting was disrupted by someone who wasn't accounted for suddenly leaving the conference call. Stephanie seems to have pinned this on Heyman somehow. (Don't like the idea of having someone on the team with ideas that are better than your own Steph? Or someown booking a PPV that would be more succesful than your own?) Heyman is now no longer on the writing team and no longer travelling on the Road as Heidenreich's manager, so he may be gone form the WWE altogether.
What Stephanie doesn't seem to understand however is that Heyman = ECW. Without him, there no point putting on an ECW brand PPV as the ECW fans will poop on it from a great height...