Former ECW Champion Shane Douglas spoke with FanHouse.com about what TNA has contributed to the wrestling industry, and the demise of ECW on Syfy.
“It’s clear TNA’s foray into wrestling has been vastly underachieving and WWE’s has been amazingly dwindling,” the real-life Troy Martin said. “It’s a shame. I think [TNA President] Dixie Carter and her dad [Bob Carter] have made an amazing monetary investment in the company that has produced nothing…but I think fans want to see something more realistic with the storylines, force them to think a little bit and get to something that’s a lot more old school. That’s one portion of the formula that Vince has steadfastly refused to try and Dixie Carter has been unwilling to try. They’ve tried everything else. They’ve tried ever flip-flopping move, every kind of iron cage they can build, every tower they can build, every kind of storyline and vignette that can do off of “sports entertainment” and we’re down 10, 15 million fans over the last 10 years. My belief is that old school is where it has to go to bring some of those fans back and create new fans.”
Martin also wasn’t shy when talking about WWE’s version of ECW.
“I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did…I think the opinion of a lot of fans – is that Vince McMahon simply wanted to stop fans from chanting “ECW” when they saw someone they either didn’t like or they did like, and one of the most difficult things to sanitize on tape is crowd sound,” Martin said. “So if you see the crowd chanting “ECW” and their fist is pounding three times and they try to sanitize that with crowd cheers, it’s very obvious. So, from a production standpoint, I think Vince McMahon thought he had an agenda that he had to adhere to.”
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