Sci-Fi channel to air wrestling... and the remotes go click...

POSTED BY: Dayve
UPDATED: Thursday, June 15, 2006 18:47
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PEULSAR5

Thursday, June 1, 2006 5:40 AM

Seems like Sci-Fi is doing what other specialty channels are doing--trying to increase revenue. Like G4 showing Fastlane, the Man Show and Star Trek--I like the shows, but on a gaming network? And now wrestling on Sci-Fi? Next thing you know, they'll be showing reality shows on educational networks like A&E and the Discovery Channel.

PATSRULE

Thursday, June 1, 2006 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:

This much is true: WWE is crap. TNA wrestling is where it's at right now. That being said, anyone who knows what ECW was knows that there is potential in it being brought back, especially if they put Paul Hayman in charge again and bring back some true greats. Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer... unfortunately, a lot of these guys are and have been retired for some time, but ECW is the house that they built, and the freedom that was alloted to them and everyone in that company was paramount to exactly why it was a superior brand of entertainment.

I think TNA is pretty good, but ROH (which has some of the same guys as TNA is much better. Unfortunately, they don't have a TV deal, but they are the best wrestling going today.

As far as ECW being on the SCI-FI channel, WWE signed a deal with NBC Universal where any new programming (Smackdown was already in existence) had to be on an NBC Universal network. That left NBC, USA, Bravo, and Sci-fi. NBC obviously passed, as the Saturday Night's Main Event they showed in March was an abysmal failure. USA declined because they already had Raw. That left it to Bravo or Sci-fi. Bonnie Hammer (I believe that is her name) was instrumental in the WWE coming to NBC Universal and is no running Sci-fi network and wanted it there. Supposedly it only has a summer deal, and unless the ratings are good , will not be renewed in the fall.

I liked the old ECW, but this won't be the old ECW. WWE owns it now, and WWE is getting smothered by one of the worst cases of nepotism I have ever seen. Vince McMahon has put his untalented daughter in charge of writing, and I suspect she will have influence in the ECW writing, which will make the new ECW a poor product, and it will probably go away from teh Sci-fi network in a few months.

DEEPGIRL187

Thursday, June 1, 2006 12:59 PM

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I liked the old ECW, but this won't be the old ECW. WWE owns it now, and WWE is getting smothered by one of the worst cases of nepotism I have ever seen. Vince McMahon has put his untalented daughter in charge of writing, and I suspect she will have influence in the ECW writing, which will make the new ECW a poor product, and it will probably go away from teh Sci-fi network in a few months.

Dear God. The world's going to hell in a handbasket.

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MAVOURNEEN

Thursday, June 1, 2006 4:53 PM

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Unless it's robots wrestling with big chainsaws, I'm changing the channel.

I can't even begin to express my dismay. Yeah, yeah. I read the NBC explanation above. Yeah, yeah. Trying to stay afloat. There are TONS of older Sci Fi series / movies / etc they could be showing instead of wrestling. I'd watch a reshowing of "V" . I'd watch SeaQuest DSV. Really. I would.

Zisker is right. Unless it's robots...

Kowtowing to the Lowest Common Denominator...All Aboard the Sci-Fi Channel!

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MER

Thursday, June 1, 2006 6:04 PM

And thus became the end of the Sci-Fi channel. It starts with one, and then it's not a Sc0Fi channel anymore.

I don't mind Sci-fi's bad movies, as long as it's a GOOD bad movie...unless there's once in a great blue moon that it's a really good one.

CHRISMOORHEAD

Thursday, June 1, 2006 6:28 PM

All valid points, but I think it at least deserves a chance. I think the very fact that McMahon's so busy with crap might mean that he'll leave ECW affairs to Paul Haymen and other old ECW suits.

Course, I haven't watched wrestling in at least 4 years. I have no clue if Heyman is even still in the WWE. I'm just hoping and willing to give this a shot. If it tanks... oh well, I still got my video tapes. I just don't want to condemn it before it begins. I did that one time with this strange movie called "Serenity"...

DEEPGIRL187

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 1:32 PM

As I was driving home on the freeway yesterday, I passed by our local civic center and saw this:

SCI-FI CHANNEL PRESENTS ECW JUNE 23

That they had the audacity to do this on Serenity day is more than a little sickening. Oh when will Vince (and NBC Universal) learn?

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CHRISMOORHEAD

Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:59 PM

Well, I actually caught a little bit of Sci-Fi's first ECW event, which by the way was NOT on June 23rd.

So, it begins out pretty cool. They bring back all the greats, The Sandman, Balls Mahoney, Tommy Dreamer and the fucking king of it all, SABU! Tazz even steps up and does something besides announcing, chokes out Jerry Lawler, good times. Still, I miss him suplexing the shit out of everything and everyone he can get his hands on.

Then, it was inevitable, it starts going downhill. They make a former ECW world champ, Justin Credible, job to fucking Kurt Angle like a bitch. Then Big Show comes in and tears the entire ECW roster to hell. It's like the WWE's saying, "Yeah, ECW was good, but they don't have REAL athlete like us!". And lemme tell ya, that's EXACTLY the type of message I want in a SCRIPTED FUCKING PERFORMANCE. Ah well, at least Sabu won the battle royale.

Oh, and what the hell was with the blond stripped? Is pro-wrestling using sex to advertise now!? I am shocked an appauled that they would sink to this level to try and gain a reputation. Speechless. Totaly speecless. NEVER BEFORE have I seen WRESTLING try to use SEX to sell it's product. It's just so disgusting...

Seriously though, stupid bitch couldn't even get her bra off during the strip tease. The only thing she has to do for a paycheck is get undressed, and she can't even do that. HA!

So, all in all, I'd give ECW's comeback a 7 out of 10. With everyone they got, I think it's got potential to regain it's glory, but Paul Heyman needs to have head creative control.

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MAVOURNEEN

Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:47 PM

I urge the TIVO nation to tell Sci-Fi channel what you think of wrestling on the channel...

"The Old 3 Thumbs Down!"

All cable channels get reports from TIVO about thumbs up / thumbs down programming and reports that tells them when TIVO customers actually record various shows.

I may be one voice...but I'm one voice with my thumb firmly on the thumbs down button. Wrestling does not belong on the Sci-Fi channel.

Here's what Jayne has to say to the president of the Sci-Fi channel:

"Have you ever been with a Warrior Woman?"

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