Why were they never a real threat? Most oldschool wrestling fans are huge ECW fans; you were getting ECW chants every single time one of their stars would move to WWF. If they were so good and well respected, why could they not scale up?
>>18861129simply an issue of funding and Paul Heyman's poor business decisions. As much as ECW was one of the hottest promotions of the 1990s, they were on borrowed time. Other promotions like IWA Deep South, CZW, MLW, TNA, JCW, and others managed to get a good section of the hardcore wrestling fanbases after ECW shut down.
