In an episode of Busted Open Radio, WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray (Bubba Ray Dudley) talked about several topics, including his reasons for not wanting to bring back the ECW brand, even if he were offered a substantial amount of money to do so.
This is what Bully Ray said, “If someone came to me, and offered me an ungodly amount of money, and said, hey let’s revive ECW, the answer would be no. It’s impossible to revive it, you can’t do it again. Right guys, right time, right city, right environment, you can’t recreate that, it’s organic, it just happens. It’s like an F5 tornado. And an F5 tornado needs very specific conditions in mother nature to happen. It wasn’t necessarily about what happened in the middle of the ring. It was about the fight against the Big 2 [WWE and WCW]. We literally changed pro wrestling, and when I say we, I mean all of us, the whole company, as a unit, as a team.”
ECW ceased operations in 2001 before being purchased by WWE, which later revived the ECW brand for a show that operated from 2006 to 2010.
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