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 enlarge | Author: Thom Loverro
Publisher: World Wrestling Entertainment
Category: Book
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1416513124
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
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ASIN: 1416513124
Publication Date: May 22, 2007
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 Easy Cash Wrangling July 7, 2006
"The Rise and Fall of ECW" pops onto shelves and will be picked up by countless fans and will make money. I went for it and enjoyed reading it, getting some history of the renegade organization but simply put, this book is out to help push the 'rebirth' of Vince McMahon's ECW. We get a pretty good rundown of the wrestling shows and most of the major storylines with lots of comments by former ECW stars. However, (you knew this was coming) the reasons for the fall of this company are a little too convenient, largely blaming talent raids by WCW & WWE and lack of network exposure. Barely touched upon is the vast financial drains, seriously bad cash flow, heinous lyuing to/not paying of employees (the wrestlers), and poor business decisions by the owner. Passing mention that McMahon was 'helping' Heyman financially and no mention of the fact Heyman was an all-out employee of the WWE in the last few weeks of ECW existance (talent raiding his own self).
There are editting errors/facts and some of the pictures misidentify who is in the photos. I would have like to seen a few pages of 'headshot' pictures of all the major longer-term players in ECW but that's just me.
Overall, for fan interest and remembrance reasons, this book is great. For the more factual story of reasons why it collapsed, you may want to try "Hardcore History". Either way, worth the price but stays with surface material, doesn't look into the dirty business dealings.
sidenote... is it odd that no-one ever mentions Lita was in ECW as Miss Congeniality... often seen on-camera biting her toenails in stripper heels?
 Let The Bodies Hit The Floor June 28, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is labeled a Media Tie-In, hence it coincides with the DVD that has the same title.
Simply, ECW was too small to become a national power and became too big to not meet its financial ruin. It was always one big financial deal from taking that giant step into the big leagues of WWE and WCW, but every turn was greeted with a brick wall.
That doesn't diminish the impact the group had on professional wrestling, but author Thom Loverro doesn't present the financial angle to the reader until the closing pages.
Throughout the chapters there is criticism of WCW for "stealing" talent while WWE had a reciprocal agreement to loan/share wrestlers, in particular during the years that Paul Heyman assumed full control of ECW.
I question this, as it seems that ECW talent was basically buried by both organizations, with wrestlers returning simply because their characters were nothing but jobbers with the "big two." It made the wrestlers appear to be damaged goods and certainly hurt ECW in expanding its audience.
For example, is there any difference with Shane Douglas becoming an obnoxious teacher of rasslin' and Justin Credible being squashed in WWE or Mike Awesome portraying a dopey 1960s beach bum and the fabulous Lucha Libre flyers losing their masks and high spots in WCW? These performers were all champions or those who had unbelievable main events in ECW before moving on (and, for some, returning to ECW).
For those who were fans of ECW, though, the book is a great read.
For the fans who are watching the "new" ECW for the first time, you will learn what made the product so exciting and controversial. And why it can never recapture that magic.
 Kind of dissapointing. May 29, 2006
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
This books seems rushed. Rushed probably to coincide with WWE's rebirth of ECW. It reads like a transcript of last years DVD of the same name, thrown in are full results from all the supercards from 1993 til closing. That's all. There's really nothing new written for the book. The "Hardcore History" book that came out a few months ago reads so much better. It really captures the "outlaw" history of the organization, with lots of stories I hadn't heard before. There were a few errors in the book, (probably edited by a non-wrestling fan) and even captions of pictures are mis labled... "Sabu" looks a lot like Eddie Gilbert!?!
If you've seen the DVD, don't waste your time with this re-hash. If you really want to know about the product ECW, get the other book. Really dissapointing because WWE has really put out some great autobiographys and "legends" DVD's. Compared to their prior products, this really sucks.
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