What If RVD Hadn’t Gotten In Trouble With The Law In 2006?

Modified Aug 02, 2018 15:10 GMT

Enter captioRVD hit the top of the business in 2006, only to come crashing down and change WWE history in the process. — RVD hit the top of the business in 2006, only to come crashing down and change WWE history

1. ECW Lasts Longer

Heyman ECW — WWE's ECW may have survived longer if it hadn't gotten off to such a rocky start.

WWE’s ECW can be viewed as a brand killed by mixed creative visions and accidents. There’s little question that Vince McMahon and Paul Heyman would eventually butt heads to the detriment of the brand, and the seeds of dissension were there from the start with the inclusion of the Zombie character in the first episode, and how early matchups like Batista vs. The Big Show were headlining the TV show. But might ECW have had a longer life had RVD not messed up so soon after it launched?

Maybe the ECW Championship was cursed, for the Benoit family tragedy and John Morrison’s Wellness Policy suspension that demanded changes in plans at the top of the card. But everything got off on the wrong foot when Van Dam got suspended and the relinquish the title before it had gotten off the runway.

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With RVD on top, ECW could have picked up on Heyman’s creative vision where he’d left on Philadelphia years earlier, or have changed with the times to build fresh faces like CM Punk and Mike Knox. None of this was in the card. Call it RVD’s responsibility or RVD’s bad luck. Regardless, his suspension was not only a huge hit to his career but to WWE’s entire ECW brand.

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Edited by Rohit Nath