Which federation, now extinct, would thrive in the modern era?
WCW. ECW is just AEW without a rich father
>>19661165lmao half of the ECW roster would be considered "problematic" by Tonikan
>>19661148ECW never had a problem selling tickets or garnerning a fanbase or getting people to watch their product. They just didn't have deep enough pockets and too much of the money was tied up in PPVs that they didn't receive fast enough to continue operations and eventually things folded. TNN fucked them over in a big way while also being the exact thing they needed, because otherwise they were locked in regionally to the northeast in terms of viewership. If you put ECW in today's world with social media and everyone having easy access to their product and being able to pay for it in new ways I think ECW thrives in a big way
>>19661165Isnt that what GCW is now, except the gay stuff and crazy spots?
why was vince always so happy bringing ECW back and then buring it? Durag Vince being champion was based though
Neither would be that big. WCW would have been bled by Warner and sold off until it was a medium level fed like what TNA is today. ECW would be just another hardcore indie promotion uploading videos for 800 weekly viewers on YouTube.
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ECW ECW's entire buisness model was based around whales, hardcore fans willing to dump tons of money on it but back then there weren't many ways to use that beyond shirts/dvdswith modern tech like twitch, gacha games, donations etc. it would absolutely thrive especially with Heyman being jewish so he'd drain the whales extra hard Look how popular edgelord content is nowadays, people like Adin Ross, Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes etc. kids yearn for edgy content and ECW would get all that WCW would just be like TNA spot where they provide the exact same thing as WWE just worse
They’re both dependent on talent available. They’d be just as bad as everything else out there if they were here today. ECW would never get off the ground cause AEW would just sign any half way interesting talent they start to push. And there are no more stars in wrestling so there’s no point in wcw.
>>19661180yeah imagine any "problematic" ECW guys being on AEW TV every week, that would never happen
1993 WCW would be good right now. Sports based presentation. Personalities not caricatures. Heroes vs villains.
If the aol merger never happened wcw having the back catalog to be licensed in the streamer wars would make it so ATnt does not sell it off when they buy warner brosAnd then discovery does not when they merge after that
>>19661148ECW would have thrived in 2002/2003 when Joe, Low-Ki, Punk, Danielson ect were all coming up. If you can, look at the WOR archives from Septermber 1995. The AOL/Warner merger was already agreed to back then and Vince was pointing out that WCW was fucked because Ted could no longer protect it. That was before Nitro and their big boom period the following year.
>>19661723The war was already won before it even started
>>19661723>ECW would have thrived in 2002/2003 when Joe, Low-Ki, Punk, Danielson ect were all coming upthat's just ROH
