10 Times Wrestling Companies Fed You Total BULLSH*T
6. WWE’s ECW Would Honour Extreme
The first One Night Stand pay-per-view in 2005 scratched an itch, and it was so successful that WWE decided to run the thing back in '06. Again, people applauded, but nobody was clapping when the company launched ECW as a standalone third brand later that year.
No amount of PR spin could change perceptions of the show. It wasn't a homage to Paul Heyman's original land of extreme, and the weekly eventually became more akin to a developmental show than anything else. It paled in comparison to Raw and SmackDown, put it that way.
ECW was a 'C' show.
That wasn't the initial boast. No, the McMahons would take the once-proud ECW name, throw their might behind it, increase the production budget and make it a product worth watching. Or, y'know, they'd turn Divas into GMs because they had nothing else for them on bigger shows, and totally ditch the hardcore nature of Heyman's rebellious vision.