Let's take a look at some backstage goings-on from the 20 ECW One Night Stand events. But not everything went to plan and not everybody was happy on the night.

Put together by Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer, the event did a massive $340,000 PPV buys. Plans were made in early 2005 to stage a one night only ECW reunion show. An audience that WWE could capitalise on. Clearly there was still an audience for ECW. The success of the DVD took many by surprise. At that point it was one of the biggest-selling WWE DVDs of all time, behind only WrestleMania 21. Importantly, the DVD was a commercial hit, too.

Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter awarded it the DVD Of The Year Award. Thank you to all the ECW fans around the world who cried out for the return of ECW. The two and a half hour long feature looked at everything and was a major critical hit.įans raved about the doc, which was honest and open and featured interviews with many ECW personalities. You have been watching ECW One Night Stand from the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, New York City. The doc looked at the life of the Philadelphia-based organisation, over three years after it had closed its doors and had been bought by WWE. WWE released the outstanding two-disc documentary The Rise and Fall of ECW in November 2004.

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