10 Wrestlers Who Hated Working For ECW

6. Batista & Big Show (2006)

When ECW was resurrected in 2006 as another WWE brand after the huge success of ‘The Rise and Fall of ECW’ DVD and the two One Night Stand events, it didn’t take long for it to decrease critically and in ratings. It came nowhere close to the spirit of the original ECW and simply became a less entertaining Raw/SmackDown!.

To curb this WWE had wrestlers from its other rosters headline episodes of ECW on Syfy, like Ric Flair, Edge and Randy Orton in order to boost the ratings. One memorable episode being the August 1st 2006 show from the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City: the original ECW’s old stomping grounds. It was filled with fanatical hardcore fans that were quickly starting to hate the current ECW product. Batista faced Big Show for the ECW World Championship in the main event and fans didn’t take it easy on them. The crowd loudly chanted “Change-the-channel” and “Bor-ing” as Batista and Big Show lost their patience for real. They visibly grew frustrated throughout, grinning at/taunting the hostile crowd and giving up on putting anything that resembled a good match on for them.

Big Show has said of that night: "You really didn't have two original ECW guys in their house. And that's the worst feeling in the world, when people start s--tting on your match, because you lost them somewhere in your match. Back then I didn't know how to get them back, I didn't know how to get them then. I was just like, 'Oh crap, here we go. How much time do we have left, can we just go home now?' You're embarrassed. I didn't say, 'Hey, put me in this match or hey, book me in the main event of this. I'm doing the best I can, why is it boring?' It was boring because they're not interested, they're not emotionally invested. The two guys they want to see in that match is not Dave Batista, and it's not me."