Former ECW Street Teammer Lashes Out On McMahon For Comments Made About ECW

[Lakerfan 4 Life]

Vince McMahon just did an interview with WWE.com where he just sh**s all over the original ECW as a small Northeastern promotion based in Philadelphia. ECW drew sold out houses in NY (Queens, Hammerstein, 4,000 people in White Plains), Philly, Boston, Chicago (6400 in The Odeum), Detroit(3,500 at the Fairgrounds) Pittsburgh (4,200 in the Golden Dome), Cleveland, Los Angeles (6,600 at the Olympic), Dallas, and almost 6,000 people in Toronto right before folding. As someone who worked on street team promotions under the supervision of the team assembled by Steve Karel (and headed by Greg Bagerosy), and who remembers huge merchandise sales from Japan and UK, this is so insulting. So now ECW is a Vince McMahon brainchild? He made it worldwide? The notion that ECW was a tiny little regional with a small vocal following (which the article actually says) is a slap in the face to all of us who worked really hard to make it as sucessful as it was. Vince McMahon can make all the money he can on ECW, that's his right. But to just write off the hard working people who dedicated our lives to a project we all loved, is just an unappreciative statement by Vince, and he should research the facts before saying such heartless things.

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