ECW Rummor!!

["The Tie-Dye Dream" Ricky Cool]

I've heard a rummor (and I stress thats all it is at the moment) from a mate of mine (who normaly is pretty reliablal when it comes to wrestling info).

That WWE Officals are considering a FULL time retunr for ECW sometime in September. The plan is apparantly to replace OVW with it and have Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer book it.

Weather a TV Deal would be in the works also Is unclear. Apparantly some former ECW alumni have already been approched to sign up for the new ECW.



I hope this is true and would dearly love it to be but I'll only belive it when I see it.

[Iceman]

Hmm, lol, aww man that would be great. Thanks for the head up Ricky. With Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer at the helm, 2 die hard ECWers, it could really work. Great to hear there asking former ECW Wrestlers to sign up for it too already, makes it more believable, this would be great. Would so much rather ECW than the WWE.

Geez, don't know why Vince got rid of it to start since he bought it out and owned it, you know he's all about making money and he would with ECW, or at least more money by having both the WWE and ECW up and running. They already have Joey Styles to do commentary too, "oh my god", lol.

If anybody hears any more news about it please post!!!

[Scott Joyce]

Return of ECW possibilty? Sounds great and with Dreamer and Heyman doing its booking it would no doubt be really sucessful. Hopefully Vince will allow it to happen like you stated Ice I dont know why he got rid of it either. But if hes smart and IMO he is only he selfish as well but he could really pull in alot of dollars by bringing ECW back.

[Amber]

PWInsider.com is reporting that WWE has made the decision to bring back ECW FULL-TIME.

The plan is to have the promotion return on a full-time basis in September. WWE officials have begun talking to former talent about returning to work for the promotion.

There has been no decision on how the company will be brought back just yet. It's possible that it will take over the present OVW territory, that it will be a promotion that gets matches on the Raw and/or Smackdown promotions or possibly in some other manner.

Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer will be booking ECW when it starts up.

WWE is offering talent three year deals which consist of a series of one year contracts with rollover clauses. The Sandman, Francine and Balls Mahoney are all being sent contreacts this week.

The plan was said to be finalized in the last week or so.

WWE is not looking to add a third day to their television schedule. It is believed this will be a mix of both former ECW wrestlers and new WWE developmental wrestlers who have been working house shows under Paul Heyman.

Speaking of Heyman, he will be in charge of the ECW brand. The plan is to run house shows and some form of weekly television as well.

Dave Meltzer reports that it would likely be handled similar to the Superastros deal in the late 90s, with weekly matches taped before either the Raw or Smackdown tapings.

[Iceman]

Thanks Amber, great find.

Well looks like it's definitly gonna happen now, nice, lol. Good start with Sandman, Francine and Balls Mahoney too. It's certainly about time we saw Francine in Wrestling too, it's been way too long. Great to hear it will be on TV too it sounds like. Sounds like Heyman will get full control too, if he does hopefully it will be the same as it was, HARDCORE like the real ECW!!! Can I hear a ECW...ECW...ECW...I hope we all can again soon, lol.

["The Tie-Dye Dream" Ricky Cool]

Ahhhh.

I bet Thats the resson WWE had Sandman sign a pretty extesive contract for his apprence at ONS that ment he wasn't able to take any independant bookings. They wanted him free of comitments so they could sign him up for the new ECW.

Hope when Ravens Contract at TNA ends they consider bring him in to the new ECW.

[Iceman]

True, Raven is another "real" ECW Wrestler and it's not the same without him, along with RVD and Tazz. But surprisely Raven has found himself a pretty nice career after ECW, with WCW, then TNA, even being their Heavyweight Champion, that's great that he's done so well, glad to see that, I always liked him, geez, I always liked most of the "true" ECW Wrestlers, lol.