WWE Bringing Back Classic ECW Pay-Per-Views?!
Recent trademarks suggest WWE might revisit these long-forgotten ECW events.
WWE has filed for several original ECW trademarks, and that has people talking about the potential for some of Paul Heyman's old events to show up on the current product soon.
Cyberslam, Massacre On 34th Street, Barely Legal (ECW's very first pay-per-view way back in 1997) and Hardcore Heaven have been logged. This was done on 11 August, and very well may be routine business from the promotion.
Perhaps they had rights to those names anyway, but the copyright had lapsed. Don't forget that WWE currently offers all of those event titles via WWE Network/Peacock. It could be something as simple as that, but wrestling fans want to believe that something bigger is in the works.
None of the four titles seem to fit WWE's current profile though. Cyberslam feels ancient, Massacre On 34th Street was a one-off ECW show, Barely Legal is a bit risqué, and Hardcore Heaven also sounds rather out-there.
However, there'd be nothing stopping Triple H from serving up NXT specials bearing some of those names above. WWE has already done that with old WCW pay-per-views, so why not ECW too?