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Requested Move

Extreme Championship Wrestling → ECW - ECW is currently a redirect page for ECW (disambiguation). ECW is known more with the wrestling organization than the English Civil War or Ensoniq AudioPCI. A top level link would direct individuals searching for those topics Kyros 00:01, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~'
  • Support: ECW is synonymous with wrestling, change page. DemonWeb 00:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose TLAs should be disambiguation pages unless there is only one use for it; which is not the case here. ECW (disambiguation) should be moved to ECW and left there. Septentrionalis 05:00, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Not moved as no consensus. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 09:35, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Profanity

There's been some editing issues regarding the inclusion of profanity in the Crowd chants part of the article. I don't like those words, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Profanity states that profanity is perfectly acceptable in the context of a relevant quote, which is exactly what we have in this section. For the sake of accuracy and staying true to the subject matter, I believe we should probably leave them in. --Jtalledo (talk) 06:43, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

McMahon funding ECW?

On the 23rd May 2005 RAW, McMahon claimed that he funded ECW in order to steal.. uuh I mean grow new WWE talent. Correct? Or work?

--Vodex 09:01, May 28, 2005 (UTC)


It was just a work. WWE never funded ECW - the only thing they did do was allow ECW to take a loan out in 2001, just before the company died.

Yazman 14:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)Yazman

Not so Yazman. You are confusing this with the fact that on the May 23rd, 2005 Raw Vince cut a promo in the ring with Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman and said there was a line item on the ECW bankruptcy totalling some $900,000 given to ECW by WWE. Just because ECW was in debt to WWE at bankruptcy doesn't mean Vince wasn't bankrolling the organization for years; which on Rise and Fall is admitted to by both Paul and Vince. In fact McMahon claims it was only right to compensate ECW for using their talent; which he claims WCW never did. BronzeWarrior 08:43, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

hmmm...I was under the impression that on the Rise and Fall of ECW DVD Heyman admitted that Vince had funded him for many years.

Totally unrelated question, but why is the section entitled "One Night Stand" just about the buildup to the PPV instead of the event itself?

Vince did look at ECW talent and also put some of his wrestlers onto the ECW roster such as Al snow

When ECW was in major financial trouble McMahon was financially supporting the ECW. Devon Dudley mentioned this in an interview and it was alluded to on the Rise and Fall of ECW DVD. When McMahon wanted an ECW wrestler, Heyman would allowed the performer to leave for the WWE. Devon also mentioned this in a radio interview. Kyros 04:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

History: The Night the Line Was Crossed

I realize that right now this is part of the section for Eastern Championship Wrestling, but I think this de-emphasizes just how important breaking with the NWA was and how disrespectful it was seen to be at the time (something Forever Hardcore covered better than The Rise and Fall of ECW) but how necessary it was. I would suggest that instead of having a seperate chapter for Eastern Championship Wrestling the "history" be merged together. In particular this would also benefit the history section itself which I think unfairly starts with "The Crucifixion." It seems like the history needs to be fleshed out in general. BronzeWarrior 08:41, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Some Serious Re-writes Needed

I think this entire page needs some serious rewriting, too much is just stolen from http://www.wrestleview.com/info/faq/ecw.shtml and contains large amounts of POV language. R-T-C 09:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

TWO PAGES FOR ECW IS ABSOLUTELY REDUNDANT. CONSOLDIATE THESE, ASAP.

'Topic was created and unsigned by 71.107.251.31' Kyros 08:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually two pages are not redundant because first of all this article is already to big. Second, the new ECW focuses on the WWE ownership. Kyros 08:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Not redundant because one of them covers the promotions and the other covers the new WWE brand. --Trick man01 06:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
They did overlap quite a bit until I reworded the other article and added it as a main link to the new promotion section of this article, after which the calls to merge had stopped. --JFred 08:35, 24 June 2006 (UTC)