What’s good Nation?!?! You know some people just don’t know how to let things go. It’s 2010, but for a few people it’s still the late 90s. Sometime in 2003-04, Rob Van Dam went to Vince McMahon and pitched the idea of a one-time only PPV devoted solely to those who worked for Paul Heyman in ECW. The PPV would be the final “memorial” show to end what was. Vince liked the idea and in June 2005, the WWE presented a PPV titled ECW: One Night Stand. The PPV was a HUGE success. The WWE had a few names already under contract: RVD, Tommy Dreamer, Lance Storm, Chris Jericho, Mick Foley, Little Guido, Tajiri, The Dudley Boys, Spike Dudley, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Nova, Stevie Richards, Rey Mysterio, Taz and Heyman. But in order to have a fully loaded PPV that was designed to honor/pay respect to ECW, you need more than a handful of names to do it right. So, Vince paid a few people somewhere around $2,000 each to make an appearance on the PPV. Such names as, CW Anderson, Tony Mamaluke, Mikey Whipwreck, Psichosis, Dawn Marie, Jason, the Blue Meanine, Tracy Smothers, JT Smith, Big Sal, Kid Kash, Francine, Buelah McGillicuyty, The Sandman, Sabu, Mike Awesone, Masato Tanaka (who Vince flew in from Japan), Justin Credible, Bill Alfonso, Joel Gertner, ring announcers Bob Artese and Stephen DeAngelis, referees Jim Molineaux, John Finnegan, Pee Wee Moore and Mike Kehner and of course the voice of ECW; Joey Styles. Read more, Click here...
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