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** "THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?!":Wrestling/TommyDreamer's response to getting caned by Sandman after losing a match against him. Paul had stuck him in a feud with Sandman and Woman, the two most hardcore people he had at that time. And Dreamer went toe-to-toe with both of them. The crowd fell in love with Dreamer after that.
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** "THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?!":Wrestling/TommyDreamer's ANOTHER?!": Wrestling/TommyDreamer's response to getting caned by Sandman after losing a match against him. Paul had stuck him in a feud with Sandman and Woman, the two most hardcore people he had at that time. And Dreamer went toe-to-toe with both of them. The crowd fell in love with Dreamer after that.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: A large part of the reason most modern wrestling fans view ECW as nothing more than a blood and guts promotion is because ''everything'' ECW did that was revolutionary in wrestling at the time is so commonplace in today's wrestling atmosphere that it's the only thing that stands out.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: OnceOriginalNowCommon: A large part of the reason most modern wrestling fans view ECW as nothing more than a blood and guts promotion is because ''everything'' ECW did that was revolutionary in wrestling at the time is so commonplace in today's wrestling atmosphere that it's the only thing that stands out.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: A large part of the reason most modern wrestling fans view ECW as nothing more than a blood and guts promotion is because ''everything'' ECW did that was revolutionary in wrestling at the time is so commonplace in today's wrestling atmosphere that it's the only thing that stands out.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A large part of the reason most modern wrestling fans view ECW as nothing more than a blood and guts promotion is because ''everything'' ECW did that was revolutionary in wrestling at the time is so commonplace in today's wrestling atmosphere that it's the only thing that stands out.
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*** For added bonus points, the company was doing so badly on money that even when RVD's ankle actually healed, he didn't show up for anything but PPVs because Heyman owed him $150,000.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: The promotion as a whole. Out of the "big three" promotions of TheNineties up to the end of the Monday Night Wars, ECW was relatively the smallest (in between money issues and their talent being cherry-picked for the remainder of their existence), yet it was the one who managed to attract the most intense cult following.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: The promotion as a whole. Out of the "big three" promotions of TheNineties up to the end of the Monday Night Wars, ECW was relatively the smallest (in between money issues and their talent being cherry-picked for the remainder of their existence), yet it was the one who managed to attract the most intense cult following.
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** General agreement is that WWECW underwent this after the 2009 WWE Draft saw their roster poached of all its best talent. After that, the only reason to watch the show at all was a combination of Wrestling/{{Christian}}, Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, and Wrestling/WilliamRegal.
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* ToughActToFollow: By the time the 90's ended, Heyman could not stop his talent pool from bleeding out. A main event scene of Taz, Awesome, Tanaka, RVD, Rhino, and Sabu would have been harder to ignore.
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* ToughActToFollow: ToughActToFollow:
** By the time the 90's ended, Heyman could not stop his talent pool from bleeding out. A main event scene of Taz, Awesome, Tanaka, RVD, Rhino, and Sabu would have been harder toignore.ignore.
** This was WWECW's problem. On its own it was actually a decent wrestling show that actually exceeded the quality of the other two main roster shows at times. But because it was named ''ECW'', it had to be compared to the original ECW. Between WWE openly treating it as a C-Show, using it as a dumping ground for mid-carders they couldn't find spots for and young stars they were still developing for ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'', and having no resemblance to the promotion that preceded it, WWECW had no hopes of living up to the original ECW and the fans knew it.
** By the time the 90's ended, Heyman could not stop his talent pool from bleeding out. A main event scene of Taz, Awesome, Tanaka, RVD, Rhino, and Sabu would have been harder to
** This was WWECW's problem. On its own it was actually a decent wrestling show that actually exceeded the quality of the other two main roster shows at times. But because it was named ''ECW'', it had to be compared to the original ECW. Between WWE openly treating it as a C-Show, using it as a dumping ground for mid-carders they couldn't find spots for and young stars they were still developing for ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'', and having no resemblance to the promotion that preceded it, WWECW had no hopes of living up to the original ECW and the fans knew it.
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* FanonDiscontinuity: As far as most fans are concerned, WWECW never existed. For those who ''are'' willing to acknowledge its existence, they usually state the show ended when Wrestling/CMPunk got drafted to RAW, as acknowledgement of the fact that he was perhaps the only reason it was still even remotely relevant to ''any'' fan.
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* FanonDiscontinuity: As far as most fans are concerned, WWECW never existed. For those who ''are'' willing to acknowledge its existence, they usually state the show ended when Wrestling/CMPunk got drafted to RAW, as acknowledgement of the fact that he was perhaps the only reason it was still even remotely relevant to ''any'' fan.[[note]]The sad part about this is that it's generally agreed that taken in a vacuum WWECW was actually a pretty good wrestling show, sort of a prototype to what NXT would later become under Wrestling/TripleH. But between it just not being anything close to the "real" ECW and WWE openly treating it like the C-show that it was fans either trashed it or just ignored it. Presentation is everything in wrestling.[[/note]]
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* ObscurePopularity: The promotion in general could be considered this -- squeezed in between the WWF and WCW during their heyday, it had to subsist mostly on pay-for-time late night/early morning/weekend slots on regional sports networks or low-rated independent TV stations, meaning that aside from word of mouth, it was next-to-impossible for the promotion to gain a lot of new viewers. The one-time crossover episode of ''WWF Raw'' in 1997, held in Philadelphia, ECW's home city, which featured several ECW stars and matches on WWF television (one of many pre-Attitude Era moves by WWF to counter WCW's surging fortunes) did very little for WWF, as the common fan had never seen nor heard of these wrestlers, but it did wonders for ECW, as they wanted to find out, and on searching the embryonic internet traced these new names to a tiny regional territory airing shows on late-night pay-for-air television, [[ColbertBump which caused interest to surge]].
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* ObscurePopularity: The promotion in general could be considered this -- squeezed in between the WWF and WCW during their heyday, it had to subsist mostly on pay-for-time late night/early morning/weekend slots on regional sports networks or low-rated independent TV stations, meaning that aside from word of mouth, it was next-to-impossible for the promotion to gain a lot of new viewers. The one-time crossover episode of ''WWF Raw'' in 1997, held in Philadelphia, ECW's home city, which featured several ECW stars and matches on WWF television (one of many pre-Attitude Era moves by WWF to counter WCW's surging fortunes) did very little for WWF, as the common fan had never seen nor heard of these wrestlers, but it did wonders for ECW, as they wanted to find out, and on searching the embryonic internet traced these new names to a tiny regional territory airing shows on late-night pay-for-air television, [[ColbertBump which caused interest to surge]]. Even with the increased viewership, ECW never reached the same mainstream popularity that WWF and WCW had, and what little mainstream coverage it got wasn't positive, usually revolving around scandals such as the Wrestling/MassTransitIncident or Wrestling/RavensNest crucifying the [[Wrestling/JimFullington Sandman]].
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* MainstreamObscurity: The promotion in general could be considered this -- squeezed in between the WWF and WCW during their heyday, it had to subsist mostly on pay-for-time late night/early morning/weekend slots on regional sports networks or low-rated independent TV stations, meaning that aside from word of mouth, it was next-to-impossible for the promotion to gain a lot of new viewers. The one-time crossover episode of ''WWF Raw'' in 1997, held in Philadelphia, ECW's home city, which featured several ECW stars and matches on WWF television (one of many pre-Attitude Era moves by WWF to counter WCW's surging fortunes) did very little for WWF, as the common fan had never seen nor heard of these wrestlers, but it did wonders for ECW, as they wanted to find out, and on searching the embryonic internet traced these new names to a tiny regional territory airing shows on late-night pay-for-air television, [[ColbertBump which caused interest to surge]].
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* ObscurePopularity: The promotion in general could be considered this -- squeezed in between the WWF and WCW during their heyday, it had to subsist mostly on pay-for-time late night/early morning/weekend slots on regional sports networks or low-rated independent TV stations, meaning that aside from word of mouth, it was next-to-impossible for the promotion to gain a lot of new viewers. The one-time crossover episode of ''WWF Raw'' in 1997, held in Philadelphia, ECW's home city, which featured several ECW stars and matches on WWF television (one of many pre-Attitude Era moves by WWF to counter WCW's surging fortunes) did very little for WWF, as the common fan had never seen nor heard of these wrestlers, but it did wonders for ECW, as they wanted to find out, and on searching the embryonic internet traced these new names to a tiny regional territory airing shows on late-night pay-for-air television, [[ColbertBump which caused interest to surge]].
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* VindicatedByHistory: As much as WWECW was a bastardization of the original ECW, after it ended many fans over the years came to fondly remember it as a decent show that helped introduced them to many of the young wrestlers that would come to stand at the top of the wrestling industry. This is helped by the fact that, despite its flaws, WWECW was often cited as a better show than ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'' due to more logical booking and a smaller roster to focus on and develop. They just wish it hadn't been called ECW.
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* VindicatedByHistory: As much as WWECW was a bastardization of the original ECW, after it ended many fans over the years came to fondly remember it as a decent show that helped introduced introduce them to many of the young wrestlers that would come to stand at the top of the wrestling industry. This is helped by the fact that, despite its flaws, WWECW was often cited as a better show than ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'' due to more logical booking and a smaller roster to focus on and develop. They just wish it hadn't been called ECW.
