@@FoxInferno13 Considering the fact that he disappeared between BX was a thing and this video AND the fact that 2020 has been ... Well you know , It actually is THAT long haha
@@cavader1381 Back before WhatCulture purged the most prominent members of its WWE team, there was a series called Adam vs Adam where Adam Blampied and Adam Pacitti would do things like bet on various PPVs and WWE 2K matches. By around the…I think the 9th episode, the bets escalated into both Adams forming their own "stables", with Pacitti forming Pacitti Club and Blampied forming B-Generation X, also called BX. Both stables would eventually be carried over into WCPW (later called Defiant Wrestling) when the WhatCulture members booked their own indie fed, using themselves as on-screen personalities.
@@alpha068 maybe but odds are Cena will come back With a change in charscter after the firefly fun house match (possibly heel) that could be the idea to work with
@Shawn Stuckey Clark true but Cena may have one more run in him depending on his schedule (he is also married now) but after the match with the fiend one more run could be great. All the opponents that the fiend beats change they either resort to their previous personas (miz, strowman, balor) or completely change into something new (rollins) so ideally a completely new Cena could be something that people may want to watch
It's really beautiful to imagine a world where Mike Awesome is not only still alive but he got to spend his last few good in ring years helping to rebuild ECW and not wallowing in his demons before killing himself. Thank you, Adam. As a lifelong Mike Awesome fan, this made me feel warm inside.
Kevin Thorn would be a great third member for that Raven's Flock reincarnation. Sure, he'd probably end up being the Janetty, but with a bit more realism to his gimmick, he'd fit right in a band of outcasted rising stars.
I immediately started auto populating with a few of the other misused WWECW stars and I immediately thought of Thorn and Ariel fitting perfectly in Ravens Legion, The Matt Stryker vs. Shane Douglas idea is great too, I can almost picture Mark Henry winning the ECW championship in some kind of hardcore match against Umaga as well as maybe a faction similar to the new breed but maybe with John Morrison, Miz and Mike Knox in there as they could all still be heels but a good way to get some of them over is have one of them betray the faction kinda like the shield, That way Miz could easily start the career heel stuff while Knox and Morrison could easily become face
Not a part 2 But what I would consider an ending to the originals and the brand finally becoming its own unique thing Closer to 2008 Sands of time Sandman gets a stretcher job after let’s say a match with Sabu Sandman is said to not have much time left But he doesn’t listen He fights back Paul is concerned for him But he doesn’t have the heart to fire him. He doesn’t feud with new talent he mostly feuds with ECW originals. The point of these types of stories is to have a long run of underdog victories, and you can’t give upset losses to new talent. specifically he faces guys he feuded with He and Tommy Dreamer have a retirement match The culmination of One Final Dream And passing that onto Sandman You then have him in retirement matches with the legends who haven’t left yet. He retires Shane Douglas He retires Mike Awesome He retires Raven who could move into agenting or booking easily. He retires Sabu Specifically this is a ladder match on a ppv where there is a contact extension up for grabs He’s going to sign his contract on tv the next Tuesday He’s pretty happy He feels like he has time. Signs on the contract Last name Fullington And then Enter Sandman plays And he stops The crowd react before the camera finds it Twisted Sand Tyler Fullington The Sandboy Enters He was entering the Indy circuit around august 2008 irl so I think this’ll be a good way to wrap up everything around December to Dismember 2008 Really just clear out the old and have your future. So Tyler enters Daddy, Pause for people to nostalgia pop You’re drunk Now It’s time for you to come home. Not only is this a nostalgia pop But it’s also has a similar impact and meaning When the line was first said the worst thing the sandman could have happen is for his son to worship Raven Now It’s for his son to tell him to retire. Tyler needs his dad to go home before he’s an invalid And he’s willing to be the breadwinner He’s willing to be the wrestler and take the punishment if it means his dad stops. They have a match for the contract extension in the main event of December to Dismember 2008 You know how Vince vs Austin at St. Valentine’s Day massacre had the hype package with splices of a love song I wanna do that here But splice in I’ll be home for Christmas. And I would have Tyler win in a bloody battle that draws a line definitively under the originals and allows for the next generation of ECW to stand on its own.
@@EmmaBonn96 Not a bad idea, but I always wondered what new stars would be in this version of ecw? aside from cm punk, burke, sheamus and zack ryder maybe? Because not a lot of stars were made in WWE's version.
You had me at "Heatwave 2006" Adam. I stopped watching wrestling in 01 shortly after the invasion storyline concluded. I started watching again in 06 until Paul Haymens dismissal. I was so heartbroken over what vince did to ECW I have yet to watch a WWE product since. Luckily AEW and NJPW helped me fall back in love a couple years ago. What makes it even harder to swallow is NXT is ECWs evolution minus alot of the adult content. Vince always said ECWs appeal could never reach mainstream. WWF Attitude was ECW lite minus the workrate. Then ECW One Night Stand 05 destroys most wwe ppvs in buy rate. Vince is convinced enough to relaunch ECW but not convinced enough to LET IT BE ECW! Where's the logic in that decision!?!?!?
Vince doesn't make logical decisions anymore. I think he legitimately burned himself out after the Attitude Era died and he's too afraid to let go and move on. I've been very on and off with pro wrestling in general since the downfall of TNA which I fell in love with. I feel like there's too much background information i'd have to learn to start watching NJPW and AEW featured a lot of guys I know but don't care enough about to consistently watch (Young Bucks, Omega etc.). I mainly follow the ins and outs of wrestling through channels like this one and WhatCulture. But yeah, WWE is all but dead to me which sucks because they have SO MANY amazing wrestlers. I also love Impact wrestling and they deserve more attention.
Wwe had better in ring performers during the attitude era and it’s not close. Wooo ecw had 3 cruiser weights at a time that they would throw out all together during the 1st 5 mins of the show. To say “work rate” and “ecw” in the same sentence is an absolute joke.
I think if they treated ECW like NXT, as in, they have their own ppvs, but sometimes have them cross with the main roster (Just for Big 4 ppvs) and then it’s pretty good
@@lostalone9320 Yeah, maybe we could have. The way Adam rebooked WWE's ECW Era was very amazing and I think it's A Lot better than what we got In real life. A new idea I thought of for today is A fantasy booking for if CM Punk joined other Wrestling promotions after leaving WWE instead of having that short-lived UFC Career he had. I hope you like the ideas: So on The next night On RAW In Chicago, Illinois After WrestleMania 30, CM Punk comes out to the ring and makes a shocking announcement. During his promo, he reveals to the crowd that He's been suffering from A Staph infection, and it's been getting A Bit worst since his match against Triple H From WrestleMania 30, which shows He'll be taking A Break from Wrestling and he will be leaving WWE.
CM Punk delivers an emotional goodbye to WWE, And after he finishes his promo, He exits through his hometown crowd just like In MITB 2011. After His Staph Infection heals, CM Punk decides to Return to Wrestling In 2015 and He decides to Wrestle Around The World. The First Wrestling Promotion He would join is Ring Of Honor where his Wrestling Career really shined. One of the things that CM Punk would do In Ring of Honor is starting A Feud/storyline against A Close friend of his who's known As Colt Cabana. So CM Punk begins Wrestling again In Ring Of Honor, and He would stay with ROH From 2015 to 2017. In 2018, CM Punk decides to sign with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and he would start appearing In NJPW's G1 Climax. CM Punk can Wrestle In NJPW From 2018 to 2019 and He could have the whole Hiroshi Tanahashi thing where he acts as a transitional champion between Kenny Omega and Jay White In NJPW. I think if CM Punk wanted to wrestle again from WWE, NJPW Would be A Better fit for CM Punk's career than UFC Because since he wanted to have that PROFESSIONAL Combat Sports feel, New Japan Pro Wrestling can be A better choice for him. What do you think of those ideas?
Alright, now that I’ve rewatched this multiple times, I should probably give my actual thoughts on the overall booking. I can see ways to get Punk to the title while still making Umaga’s involvement last in the title picture. This booking actually gave me the inspiration to actually carry out your bookings in practice through 2K, and I just might start creating fan-sequels to your bookings, even going as far as to properly stitch together the Austin Heel Turn and Invasion bookings.
This was perfect. Personally I would have brought Edge and Jeff Hardy over because they were WWE's extreme guys of the older days that could bolster ecwwe and save cost if WWE wanted but this booking wouldn't need it.. who would have thought rebooking ecw didn't take much but an actual attempt at investing in it..
Great booking, just one minor thing I would add: Taz has to bring somehow the FTW Championship and give it to Umaga, while still insisting on carrying it himself and retiring it, again, after Umaga beats Van Dam for the title.
Funny thing about the comparison to modern NXT to ECW is that before ECW folded Paul Heyman actually knew that the hardcore view was becoming somewhat stale mostly due to the WWE AE and the hardcore division. He actually tried to turn ECW into a more NXT looking wrestling federation but felt that the fans would rebel against it
Next booking ideas- Taz's run in the year 2000, DDP's run in 2001 and Adam's dream booking of Keith lee's Raw debut to the main event of Wrestlemania 37. P.S keep up the good work, before Brock returns and win the title or big show crashes the main event of WrestleMania 37. 😉
Definitely re-book Tazz in 2000 WWF! They flushed him down the roster so fast after his debut that he deserved a lot better! With DDP I always figured we should've gotten the People's Champion of WCW vs the People's Champion of WWF. Imagine full-on superstar main eventer Diamond Dallas Page doing his thing with The Rock.
@@NickMichalak True. It's that what if, you know. The Rock VS DDP for the WWF heavyweight championship or possibly for WCW Championship, (Unlikely) but still that will be quote and quote, "A Perfect Historical Wrestlemania match". As well, Tazz should be the ken shamrock or the dan severn of the WWF with some good booking behind him.
@@MasonCurwen Exactly. If you treat Tazz like a serious competitor you could've had him in knock down, hard hitting matches with one of the best mid-cards in WWF/E history.
I got an idea: Dolph Ziggler's Botched US Title Run, where he vacated it right away and was supposedly a favorite to win the Rumble that year but didn't and was...pretty much embarrassed.
I absolutely agree with keeping ECW separated from other WWE programming. And I would go even further. After RVD won the WWE Championship, he would be forced to stay on Raw / Smackdown instead of jumping ship to his actual home ECW. He would get his rematch against John Cena on Raw like 2 weeks before actual ECW starts and before that he gives promos on how pissed he is about not being able to go to ECW and about how unfair the world is etc. In that match they go back and forth for a little while, but Cena is unfaced by anything RvD does and out of frustration RvD rolls out of the ring, blatantly grabs a chair and hits Cena with the Vandamminator right in front of the Ref leading to his disqualification. He then goes on to grab a singapore kane and unleach on Cena and only stops when all the security comes out to stop him dragging him out of the arena without the title. Next week it is announced that Cena suffered injuries from the attack and would be out that week and RvD will face the concequences of his behaviour in an in ring segment. During that segment Vince McMahon himself strippes him from the title and suspended for 30 days or as long as Cena takes to heal. RvD again loses his cool and attacks McMahon with a cane but is stopped after one or two hits so no long term damage is done. Vince gets up and yells his signature "YOURRRREEEE FIRED" - RvD is gone from WWE. One week later ECW starts and Paul Heyman is more than happy to have RvD return to his home granting him a spot in the main event match of the first show in which he wins the ECW title against Rhino. After that we continue as you booked it but with the exception that for the first year not a single WWE star appears on ECW unless that star also leaves Raw and Smackdown. And as a sidenote also no ECW star would shift to main WWE for the first year at least and if somebody would later that guy would be gone from ECW. The two brands are entirely separate from each other.
I was hoping to see what you might've done with Monty Brown in this version but honestly it made me wish we got a smidge of this ECW during their reboot
As a kid I went to a Smackdown show and didnt know they filmed ECW then and was VERY CONFUSED on why I was watching Mark Henry fight Matt Hardy on ECW when I wanted to see Taker on smackdown
To kind of fantasy book a future with this brand, imagine if NXT still became a thing (since WWE wants to sign everyone and anyone these days), give them two places to go. ECW or NXT. Philly extreme style wrestling or Florida classic storytelling style wrestling. And you can even do brand warfare between ECW and NXT, do drafts between the two to create a Brand Warfare feel to the developmental brands. It could be interesting to see two different styles clash like that, idk. Paul Heyman and Triple H creatively working on like a yearly ECW vs NXT War Games sounds really fun.
The mess WWE made of ECW was extraordinary. Fans clearly wanted the likes of CM Punk at the top and it's not as though the show had to be kept every bit as gory, as long as the no DQ rules are kept intact you can work with a chair shot or table here and there. Regarding Kurt Angle, in all fairness he was heading for a massive implosion at that point anyway, no matter which show he was on.
Adam, you have a career waiting ahead for you in booking my friend. As a wrestling fan for seventeen years- this was everything I didn’t know I wanted. I will be watching many more of these rebooking videos
Say It To My Face is still my all-time favorite theme song. If Adam books it, I want that shit on full blast in the background. Also, I'd keep him far away from John Cena in a rebooking if you know what I mean. Yeesh.
This might be my favourite booking Adam’s ever done. WhatCulture or Parts Funknown. It’s probably a combined love of ECW and Blampied but hell this is good.
I started watching ECW in 2006, i was so hyped! Then one day still in 2006, iit wasnt on Syfy anymore and no one even said anything about it, it just wasnt on tv
"in fact, if you want to, you could even keep Mick Foley heel." I do want that. I do, indeed, want that. Have Foley and Edge still win their match, but have Edge turn on Foley anyway because he's bigger than all of this.
What I'd give to see an ECW revival with Adam at the wheel. If WWE had approached the product with even half of the care Adam put into plotting that first year, ECW might still be around today. Nice going.
Actually, Awesome Kong was called Amazing Kong in New Japan. When she came over to the States, there was this legal battle with Marvel b/c of the whole, "Amazing Spiderman and Friends." So, she went from Amazing Kong to Awesome Kong. Good for Adam in standing his ground on that!
For those watching in 2022 like me. It's really cool to see some of Adam's fantasy booking in this video coming true in AEW. Team Taz has managed to get 3 separate guys over in Hook, Starks and Hobbs respectfully and it's in huge part to having Taz as the figurehead getting them all to that point.
Adam how about doing a video of how wwe should of booked. Ryback Retribution Bret Harts 2010 return Ravens 2000 run A John Cena heel run beginning in 2008
Man this booking is making me wish that Vince made ECW it's own brand & more importantly, give RVD a longer reign as ECW World Champion. This is why I'm a fan of his.
So, I’ve seen some people complain that because Adam has the benefit of hindsight, it’s much easier for him to book alternate storylines when he already knows what doesn’t slashdidn’t work. Because of this, may I suggest next month fantasy booking video be The Road to Wrestlemania 37? Using the current roster and storylines as a starting point, Book the next three months ofWWE, from the night after TLC, through January to the Royal Rumble, then through February to Elimination Chamber, and finally through March to Wrestlemania. That’s obviously a shit ton of booking to do, so I would just stick with the main stories, titles and blood feuds, trying not to go any lower than the upper mid card… That being said, you can use anyone you want in any feud you want, especially if it can be used to raise their stock and their position on the card (Chad Gable anyone?). Whether or not you include NXT in any of this is entirely your call. Essentially, if you took over as head booker for WWE today, and had complete autonomy over every decision, what would the next three months look like? Once Wrestlemania 37 has come and gone, we compare notes--I’m willing to bet Adam’s version still comes out on top.
I watched an interview with Paul Heyman where he talked about WWECW and he said the biggest reason that it failed was because it was on network television. Shane McMahon actually had the idea of making it a website exclusive show, thus giving them the freedom to do whatever they wanted. But Vince saw more money in network television so basically it was ruined before it even started.
"Maybe they should change their name to BX"
Me: "I understood that reference"
the light in his eyes at that moment, that huuuuge smile he tried to contain
@@paulocruz1808 i was hoping for a Ding for old times Sake
Only long time fans understand that reference
Not gonna lie that got a pop out of me rite in the feels
Yessss!
"Maybe they should change their name to BX"
*It felt like a century since I heard that name.*
Didnt get the reference can you help me out
Is it only a dig at DX or some backstory to it
@@abarif3008 BX was the name of Blampied's team for WhatCulture's Adam vs Adam series a VERY long time ago. (Okay maybe not THAT long ago but STILL)
@@FoxInferno13 Considering the fact that he disappeared between BX was a thing and this video AND the fact that 2020 has been ... Well you know , It actually is THAT long haha
BX return confirmed
@@FoxInferno13 Ohhh yea now I remember, thanks for the help
"Maybe they should call themselves *BX*
That.. Nostalgia , warmed my heart
Ik man, my heart just melted a bit
What is BX?
@@thehunkofnewjersey487 an old gimmick from when adam was on a different channel
@@rc0057 ok thanks for explantation
@@thehunkofnewjersey487 u just had to be there
"Maybe they should change their name to BX"
Aww, Adam misses it.
Sorry to be that guy but could you please explain what I've missed out on
@@cavader1381 Back before WhatCulture purged the most prominent members of its WWE team, there was a series called Adam vs Adam where Adam Blampied and Adam Pacitti would do things like bet on various PPVs and WWE 2K matches. By around the…I think the 9th episode, the bets escalated into both Adams forming their own "stables", with Pacitti forming Pacitti Club and Blampied forming B-Generation X, also called BX. Both stables would eventually be carried over into WCPW (later called Defiant Wrestling) when the WhatCulture members booked their own indie fed, using themselves as on-screen personalities.
For next time: How Adam would book John Cenas Final Run
@@kaanaltug455 Yes Cheers mate
@@alpha068 it doesn’t have to be about something that’ll happen in the future
@@alpha068 maybe but odds are Cena will come back
With a change in charscter after the firefly fun house match (possibly heel) that could be the idea to work with
@Shawn Stuckey Clark true but Cena may have one more run in him depending on his schedule (he is also married now) but after the match with the fiend one more run could be great.
All the opponents that the fiend beats change they either resort to their previous personas (miz, strowman, balor) or completely change into something new (rollins) so ideally a completely new Cena could be something that people may want to watch
Ortons idea is the best
It's really beautiful to imagine a world where Mike Awesome is not only still alive but he got to spend his last few good in ring years helping to rebuild ECW and not wallowing in his demons before killing himself.
Thank you, Adam. As a lifelong Mike Awesome fan, this made me feel warm inside.
How exactly do we know he would have done himself in on the same date, if at all?
@@EatAnOctorok I think you need to reread my comment
@@Dawnbreakerr Ah, I see it. Oops.
Maybe it would've saved him. Rebuilding a show he loves could've gave him purpose
As a rick and morty fan i can imagine a universe where this prolly happened
Adam’s Christmas present to us all: a mention of BX
@L V the one thing corna to scared to ruin
It took me a minute to realise that (I was more listening then watching) but I see now what he did haha
We love BX
#BXLIVES
Pacitti Club 4 Life
That BX reference was long term storytelling at it’s finest.
@@BBULLSHlT never watched it
"Maybe they should call themselves BX"
We all felt that
*Low blows Jack the Jobber*
@@8x6apexdoubledoorshed37 *Superkicks Jack the Jobber*
Man that hit me in the feels
I miss BX, man...
@@KimiMTZ17 I miss when Whatculture was relevant because of BX and Pacitti Club.
No one:
Especially not WWE creative:
Adam: WHAT IF WE HAD A TOURNAMENT
Then Ronald Van Donald was caught giving a ride to a delightful woman called 'Mary Jane'
Underrated line 😂
"Just buy The Arena..."
👀 God damn it I'm in
The Zombie becomes World Champion on the first night. Bam, easy booking
It'll make MILLIONS! $$$
Ratings gold!!!
such good shit
This gave me a hearty laugh
Then Roman Regins comes out says I am the big dog ooooaaar spears the zombie pins him to become the world champion
Exactly 5 years after the Invasion booking... welcome back Plumpy, we've missed you so much
5 years holy i am old
Five years ago!!!! 😢
I absolutely love the amount of love Umaga gets in this story
Umaga was great
I suggest “How Adam would book RETRIBUTION”
Good luck polishing a turd
Easyyy
Dont book it!
He kinda did that already with rebooking the Smackdown hacker
If he was able to tackle WWECW than he can handle anything.
@@joshpeck904 No, the way he booked the hacker means that RETRIBUTION never existed.
I will forever live for Adam's subtle Whatculture references
Benoit vs malenko would make all the members of the audience grow fisherman’s beards because of the sheer badassery of it
Double dose of Adam? Merry Christmas indeed.
Triple dose, he was in the Christmas Special
Please tag it..
yes it is
How Adam booked “his hair returning”
Kevin Thorn would be a great third member for that Raven's Flock reincarnation. Sure, he'd probably end up being the Janetty, but with a bit more realism to his gimmick, he'd fit right in a band of outcasted rising stars.
I immediately started auto populating with a few of the other misused WWECW stars and I immediately thought of Thorn and Ariel fitting perfectly in Ravens Legion, The Matt Stryker vs. Shane Douglas idea is great too, I can almost picture Mark Henry winning the ECW championship in some kind of hardcore match against Umaga as well as maybe a faction similar to the new breed but maybe with John Morrison, Miz and Mike Knox in there as they could all still be heels but a good way to get some of them over is have one of them betray the faction kinda like the shield, That way Miz could easily start the career heel stuff while Knox and Morrison could easily become face
I’d replace Elijah with thorn and let Elijah tag with Cor Von
The fact that it wasn't at The ECW arena here in Philly was its biggest crime
"Maybe they should change their name to BX"
Me - HE SAID THE THING!!!
Why isn't Adam on a booking staff? That was pretty good.
I believe he did used to be a booker in WCPW.
It wouldn't matter anymore today, the wwe is dead lol they needed Adam's genius booking a decade+ ago 😭
Let's be honest, with the amount of shit Adam's talked about wwe over the years, theres no way he ever takes one step in titan towers 😂
Because he watches wrestling
It’s an atrocity that he isn’t in full control of a major promotion. Somebody should be slapped for this transgression to our community as a whole
I, for one, would love a good version of the Extremely Enforced Rules match in an environment where it'd get all the heat in the world.
I actually wanted this to go on. Can we have a part 2?
Not a part 2
But what I would consider an ending to the originals and the brand finally becoming its own unique thing
Closer to 2008
Sands of time
Sandman gets a stretcher job after let’s say a match with Sabu
Sandman is said to not have much time left
But he doesn’t listen
He fights back
Paul is concerned for him
But he doesn’t have the heart to fire him.
He doesn’t feud with new talent he mostly feuds with ECW originals. The point of these types of stories is to have a long run of underdog victories, and you can’t give upset losses to new talent.
specifically he faces guys he feuded with
He and Tommy Dreamer have a retirement match
The culmination of One Final Dream
And passing that onto Sandman
You then have him in retirement matches with the legends who haven’t left yet.
He retires Shane Douglas
He retires Mike Awesome
He retires Raven who could move into agenting or booking easily.
He retires Sabu
Specifically this is a ladder match on a ppv where there is a contact extension up for grabs
He’s going to sign his contract on tv the next Tuesday
He’s pretty happy
He feels like he has time.
Signs on the contract
Last name
Fullington
And then
Enter Sandman plays
And he stops
The crowd react before the camera finds it
Twisted Sand
Tyler Fullington
The Sandboy
Enters
He was entering the Indy circuit around august 2008 irl so I think this’ll be a good way to wrap up everything around December to Dismember 2008
Really just clear out the old and have your future.
So Tyler enters
Daddy,
Pause for people to nostalgia pop
You’re drunk
Now
It’s time for you to come home.
Not only is this a nostalgia pop
But it’s also has a similar impact and meaning
When the line was first said the worst thing the sandman could have happen is for his son to worship Raven
Now
It’s for his son to tell him to retire.
Tyler needs his dad to go home before he’s an invalid
And he’s willing to be the breadwinner
He’s willing to be the wrestler and take the punishment if it means his dad stops.
They have a match for the contract extension in the main event of December to Dismember 2008
You know how Vince vs Austin at St. Valentine’s Day massacre had the hype package with splices of a love song
I wanna do that here
But splice in
I’ll be home for Christmas.
And I would have Tyler win in a bloody battle that draws a line definitively under the originals and allows for the next generation of ECW to stand on its own.
@@EmmaBonn96 Not a bad idea, but I always wondered what new stars would be in this version of ecw? aside from cm punk, burke, sheamus and zack ryder maybe?
Because not a lot of stars were made in WWE's version.
@@tomasestay8375
I could see Jake Hager Jack Swagger as a sorta Drew Gulak, Matt Striker type
Looking down at all the extreme nonsense
BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER
You had me at "Heatwave 2006" Adam. I stopped watching wrestling in 01 shortly after the invasion storyline concluded. I started watching again in 06 until Paul Haymens dismissal. I was so heartbroken over what vince did to ECW I have yet to watch a WWE product since. Luckily AEW and NJPW helped me fall back in love a couple years ago. What makes it even harder to swallow is NXT is ECWs evolution minus alot of the adult content. Vince always said ECWs appeal could never reach mainstream. WWF Attitude was ECW lite minus the workrate. Then ECW One Night Stand 05 destroys most wwe ppvs in buy rate. Vince is convinced enough to relaunch ECW but not convinced enough to LET IT BE ECW! Where's the logic in that decision!?!?!?
Vince doesn't make logical decisions anymore. I think he legitimately burned himself out after the Attitude Era died and he's too afraid to let go and move on. I've been very on and off with pro wrestling in general since the downfall of TNA which I fell in love with. I feel like there's too much background information i'd have to learn to start watching NJPW and AEW featured a lot of guys I know but don't care enough about to consistently watch (Young Bucks, Omega etc.). I mainly follow the ins and outs of wrestling through channels like this one and WhatCulture. But yeah, WWE is all but dead to me which sucks because they have SO MANY amazing wrestlers. I also love Impact wrestling and they deserve more attention.
Wwe had better in ring performers during the attitude era and it’s not close. Wooo ecw had 3 cruiser weights at a time that they would throw out all together during the 1st 5 mins of the show. To say “work rate” and “ecw” in the same sentence is an absolute joke.
@@richardtherichard26 are you serious lol???
@@richardtherichard26 no fuckin way you actually think that
ecw wouldnt appeal to a mass audience
Idea for future video: how Adam would book 2001 WCW to turn it around if his dad, Eric Bischoff, had successfully bought it instead of Vince McMahon
Or maybe how Adam would book the new wcw that Eric Bischoff was trying to buy/keep afloat before wwe bought it
What if Adam booked WCW The Big Bang in 2001, WCW's hyopthetical comeback PPV?
I think if they treated ECW like NXT, as in, they have their own ppvs, but sometimes have them cross with the main roster (Just for Big 4 ppvs) and then it’s pretty good
19:06 Hands up if you remember that reference 😂😂😂.
That face afterwards was like "Yes, you know what I'm talking about, I also miss BX, I'm not gonna cry"
Thank you for saying it, Adam. Striker's character was perfect heel stuff for ECW!
He was a legend on the mic
"Raven is the most important piece of this booking" Oh so Luke wrote this?
"Maybe they should call themselves 'BX.'"
It's been 84 years...
Adam's Hair looks Amazing... Why is it so perfect?
"Raw isn't gonna do without their top belt for long."
Brock Lesnar in 2017: Lol
The BX reference was awesome to hear, now we just need another one 👀
Would we have gotten the CM Punk that we got if ECW wasn't shite though?
@@lostalone9320 Yeah, maybe we could have. The way Adam rebooked WWE's ECW Era was very amazing and I think it's A Lot better than what we got In real life.
A new idea I thought of for today is A fantasy booking for if CM Punk joined other Wrestling promotions after leaving WWE instead of having that short-lived UFC Career he had. I hope you like the ideas:
So on The next night On RAW In Chicago, Illinois After WrestleMania 30, CM Punk comes out to the ring and makes a shocking announcement. During his promo, he reveals to the crowd that He's been suffering from A Staph infection, and it's been getting A Bit worst since his match against Triple H From WrestleMania 30, which shows He'll be taking A Break from Wrestling and he will be leaving WWE.
CM Punk delivers an emotional goodbye to WWE, And after he finishes his promo, He exits through his hometown crowd just like In MITB 2011. After His Staph Infection heals, CM Punk decides to Return to Wrestling In 2015 and He decides to Wrestle Around The World.
The First Wrestling Promotion He would join is Ring Of Honor where his Wrestling Career really shined. One of the things that CM Punk would do In Ring of Honor is starting A Feud/storyline against A Close friend of his who's known As Colt Cabana. So CM Punk begins Wrestling again In Ring Of Honor, and He would stay with ROH From 2015 to 2017.
In 2018, CM Punk decides to sign with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and he would start appearing In NJPW's G1 Climax. CM Punk can Wrestle In NJPW From 2018 to 2019 and He could have the whole Hiroshi Tanahashi thing where he acts as a transitional champion between Kenny Omega and Jay White In NJPW.
I think if CM Punk wanted to wrestle again from WWE, NJPW Would be A Better fit for CM Punk's career than UFC Because since he wanted to have that PROFESSIONAL Combat Sports feel, New Japan Pro Wrestling can be A better choice for him.
What do you think of those ideas?
Maybe CM Punk would've been a bit more humble if he came up through a version of NXT and wouldn't have thought so highly of himself.
I think so. Because he would've eventually hit the glass ceiling in WWE and had the same reaction.
Yes since Punk had a pretty big list of stuff he was pissed at.
Alright, now that I’ve rewatched this multiple times, I should probably give my actual thoughts on the overall booking.
I can see ways to get Punk to the title while still making Umaga’s involvement last in the title picture. This booking actually gave me the inspiration to actually carry out your bookings in practice through 2K, and I just might start creating fan-sequels to your bookings, even going as far as to properly stitch together the Austin Heel Turn and Invasion bookings.
I want an "EXTREME!" t-shirt with Adam doing air guitar on the front
As someone who’s been watching Adams content since 2015 I always love the call back to the JBL and Blue meanie incident hahaha
This was perfect. Personally I would have brought Edge and Jeff Hardy over because they were WWE's extreme guys of the older days that could bolster ecwwe and save cost if WWE wanted but this booking wouldn't need it.. who would have thought rebooking ecw didn't take much but an actual attempt at investing in it..
"out of the giant pile of sh*t grew one singular rose that is NXT"
well if we have NXT by the end of the year then that'll be a god send
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Ronald Van Donald vs Rhinoceros made me laugh WAY harder than I should have
Great booking, just one minor thing I would add: Taz has to bring somehow the FTW Championship and give it to Umaga, while still insisting on carrying it himself and retiring it, again, after Umaga beats Van Dam for the title.
Currently in lockdown can’t see my family bedded something like this thxs Adam
Merry Christmas to Adam, and all the members of the PFK team!
now i want to see umaga vs sabu imagine the level of carnage
kendo sticks
tables
ladder
flaming swords
19:05 the memories
Funny thing about the comparison to modern NXT to ECW is that before ECW folded Paul Heyman actually knew that the hardcore view was becoming somewhat stale mostly due to the WWE AE and the hardcore division. He actually tried to turn ECW into a more NXT looking wrestling federation but felt that the fans would rebel against it
Adam: "Maybe they should change their name to BX."
BWO: "No, I don't think I will."
Just got back into wrestling and picked up What Culture again… I missed this man’s humor and snark. What a magnificent bastard.
“It looks like this, you can afford it!”
Hell, it looks like anyone can.
Next booking ideas- Taz's run in the year 2000, DDP's run in 2001 and Adam's dream booking of Keith lee's Raw debut to the main event of Wrestlemania 37. P.S keep up the good work, before Brock returns and win the title or big show crashes the main event of WrestleMania 37. 😉
Definitely re-book Tazz in 2000 WWF! They flushed him down the roster so fast after his debut that he deserved a lot better! With DDP I always figured we should've gotten the People's Champion of WCW vs the People's Champion of WWF. Imagine full-on superstar main eventer Diamond Dallas Page doing his thing with The Rock.
@@NickMichalak True. It's that what if, you know. The Rock VS DDP for the WWF heavyweight championship or possibly for WCW Championship, (Unlikely) but still that will be quote and quote, "A Perfect Historical Wrestlemania match". As well, Tazz should be the ken shamrock or the dan severn of the WWF with some good booking behind him.
@@MasonCurwen Exactly. If you treat Tazz like a serious competitor you could've had him in knock down, hard hitting matches with one of the best mid-cards in WWF/E history.
@@NickMichalak I agree.
I got an idea: Dolph Ziggler's Botched US Title Run, where he vacated it right away and was supposedly a favorite to win the Rumble that year but didn't and was...pretty much embarrassed.
Man I wish he would've had a decent world title win
I absolutely agree with keeping ECW separated from other WWE programming. And I would go even further. After RVD won the WWE Championship, he would be forced to stay on Raw / Smackdown instead of jumping ship to his actual home ECW. He would get his rematch against John Cena on Raw like 2 weeks before actual ECW starts and before that he gives promos on how pissed he is about not being able to go to ECW and about how unfair the world is etc. In that match they go back and forth for a little while, but Cena is unfaced by anything RvD does and out of frustration RvD rolls out of the ring, blatantly grabs a chair and hits Cena with the Vandamminator right in front of the Ref leading to his disqualification. He then goes on to grab a singapore kane and unleach on Cena and only stops when all the security comes out to stop him dragging him out of the arena without the title.
Next week it is announced that Cena suffered injuries from the attack and would be out that week and RvD will face the concequences of his behaviour in an in ring segment. During that segment Vince McMahon himself strippes him from the title and suspended for 30 days or as long as Cena takes to heal. RvD again loses his cool and attacks McMahon with a cane but is stopped after one or two hits so no long term damage is done. Vince gets up and yells his signature "YOURRRREEEE FIRED" - RvD is gone from WWE. One week later ECW starts and Paul Heyman is more than happy to have RvD return to his home granting him a spot in the main event match of the first show in which he wins the ECW title against Rhino.
After that we continue as you booked it but with the exception that for the first year not a single WWE star appears on ECW unless that star also leaves Raw and Smackdown. And as a sidenote also no ECW star would shift to main WWE for the first year at least and if somebody would later that guy would be gone from ECW. The two brands are entirely separate from each other.
In the future, could you try “How Adam would book The Wyatt Family”
They have reunions broken up way too many times
Merry Christmas, lad
"What a pair of cults"
I absolutely lost it at that. Great video and happy holidays
I love that line, "Let me have a go" Blampied is the greatest fantasy booker/wrestling personality on UA-cam
Adam's Extreeeeeeeeme Counter: 6
you forgot something: 🎸
yw :)
I was hoping to see what you might've done with Monty Brown in this version but honestly it made me wish we got a smidge of this ECW during their reboot
As a kid I went to a Smackdown show and didnt know they filmed ECW then and was VERY CONFUSED on why I was watching Mark Henry fight Matt Hardy on ECW when I wanted to see Taker on smackdown
Adam just pitched saving Matt Striker's career.
Thank you!!! That was incredibly entertaining. Your content is head and shoulders above your competition.
To kind of fantasy book a future with this brand, imagine if NXT still became a thing (since WWE wants to sign everyone and anyone these days), give them two places to go. ECW or NXT. Philly extreme style wrestling or Florida classic storytelling style wrestling. And you can even do brand warfare between ECW and NXT, do drafts between the two to create a Brand Warfare feel to the developmental brands. It could be interesting to see two different styles clash like that, idk. Paul Heyman and Triple H creatively working on like a yearly ECW vs NXT War Games sounds really fun.
As a former BX soldier, I had flashbacks of the bloody war
Should be writing for WWE or AEW, anyways i have a request: how adam would book wcw if vince hadn’t have bought it in 2001
Also as a tribute, how adam would have booked luke harper in wwe
WCW’s shows were canned a fair length of time before Vince bought it. Wouldn’t have gone anywhere.
Merry Christmas Adam, ive been a fan of yours since you started at WhatCulture. wishing you all the best my friend.
The mess WWE made of ECW was extraordinary. Fans clearly wanted the likes of CM Punk at the top and it's not as though the show had to be kept every bit as gory, as long as the no DQ rules are kept intact you can work with a chair shot or table here and there.
Regarding Kurt Angle, in all fairness he was heading for a massive implosion at that point anyway, no matter which show he was on.
Adam, you have a career waiting ahead for you in booking my friend. As a wrestling fan for seventeen years- this was everything I didn’t know I wanted. I will be watching many more of these rebooking videos
This one may not happen
But I'd lose to see you Book Alex Rileys wwe run or his NXT run
Say It To My Face is still my all-time favorite theme song. If Adam books it, I want that shit on full blast in the background. Also, I'd keep him far away from John Cena in a rebooking if you know what I mean. Yeesh.
I would say just do exactly what they were doing, but keep going instead of randomly ending his push.
THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER! Thank you, Santa Adam!
Note: More like Stan-ta Adam
Two Adam videos in one day? This really is christmas
20:35 "and finally Ronald Van Donald Vs The Rhinoceros" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This might be my favourite booking Adam’s ever done. WhatCulture or Parts Funknown. It’s probably a combined love of ECW and Blampied but hell this is good.
I started watching ECW in 2006, i was so hyped! Then one day still in 2006, iit wasnt on Syfy anymore and no one even said anything about it, it just wasnt on tv
Honestly, I love Adam’s descriptions of what happened more than I do watching him rebook it.
Merry Xmas Adam, I love this series. The Invasion video and Goldberg in WWE were amazing too. Keep up the good work
"The NXT we know today"
Well that didn't age well, Blampie. Yikes.
"in fact, if you want to, you could even keep Mick Foley heel."
I do want that. I do, indeed, want that. Have Foley and Edge still win their match, but have Edge turn on Foley anyway because he's bigger than all of this.
Can someone please tell me why at 13:46 Foley turning face is important if he hardly plays a role in the rest of the booking?
@@shahidnyker2900 I'm assuming to give him a reason to stay in ECW.
What I'd give to see an ECW revival with Adam at the wheel. If WWE had approached the product with even half of the care Adam put into plotting that first year, ECW might still be around today.
Nice going.
I hate you. This is so good I hate you for making me realize WWECW could have been so much better.
The greatest christmas present of all, thanks Adam
Actually, Awesome Kong was called Amazing Kong in New Japan. When she came over to the States, there was this legal battle with Marvel b/c of the whole, "Amazing Spiderman and Friends." So, she went from Amazing Kong to Awesome Kong. Good for Adam in standing his ground on that!
I was lucky to be young enough to see this kind of ECW as the "cool brand" when it was going. Big Show's dominant title run was awesome
In retrospect it obviously was a poor attempt to revitalise what it originally was but hey, there's a charm to being young and nieve
This is my favorite UA-cam Wrestling series, never stop booking, Adam
Again your brilliance pisses me off because of how much better it was than real life. Great job. Also.....HHH Retirement?
Hello I’m also adam
How’d you get this video early? Who do you know? Who did you pay off?
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@@AlyxDG Patreon my g. If you sign up for that you get these videos two days earlier than everyone else.
The bit with the basket of half eaten muffins was hilarious 😅. "Because we're extreme!" Lol
For those watching in 2022 like me. It's really cool to see some of Adam's fantasy booking in this video coming true in AEW.
Team Taz has managed to get 3 separate guys over in Hook, Starks and Hobbs respectfully and it's in huge part to having Taz as the figurehead getting them all to that point.
Favorite part of this video was the love shown to Umaga. He truly was a fantastic Monster Destroyer Heel. R.I.P.
"Maybe they should change their name to BX"
Me- "Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... a long time."
We love you, Adam. Two bookings for christmas is the best gift I've gotten this year :D
Kinda odd you left out The Dudley Boyz from this version of ECW
For what it's worth, Christian Scott Thomas was an extremely hardcore Silver Slab Champion.
An amazing Christmas gift!
Adam how about doing a video of how wwe should of booked.
Ryback
Retribution
Bret Harts 2010 return
Ravens 2000 run
A John Cena heel run beginning in 2008
Man this booking is making me wish that Vince made ECW it's own brand & more importantly, give RVD a longer reign as ECW World Champion. This is why I'm a fan of his.
So, I’ve seen some people complain that because Adam has the benefit of hindsight, it’s much easier for him to book alternate storylines when he already knows what doesn’t slashdidn’t work. Because of this, may I suggest next month fantasy booking video be The Road to Wrestlemania 37? Using the current roster and storylines as a starting point, Book the next three months ofWWE, from the night after TLC, through January to the Royal Rumble, then through February to Elimination Chamber, and finally through March to Wrestlemania. That’s obviously a shit ton of booking to do, so I would just stick with the main stories, titles and blood feuds, trying not to go any lower than the upper mid card… That being said, you can use anyone you want in any feud you want, especially if it can be used to raise their stock and their position on the card (Chad Gable anyone?). Whether or not you include NXT in any of this is entirely your call. Essentially, if you took over as head booker for WWE today, and had complete autonomy over every decision, what would the next three months look like? Once Wrestlemania 37 has come and gone, we compare notes--I’m willing to bet Adam’s version still comes out on top.
What a pair of cults.
10/10
I watched an interview with Paul Heyman where he talked about WWECW and he said the biggest reason that it failed was because it was on network television. Shane McMahon actually had the idea of making it a website exclusive show, thus giving them the freedom to do whatever they wanted. But Vince saw more money in network television so basically it was ruined before it even started.