From PWTorch.com
Former ECW Original star Shane Douglas says he believes WWE and Vince McMahon's motive for "sanitizing" the ECW brand name was to eliminate the recognizable "E-C-W" chants from WWE TV. Douglas believes McMahon was willing to take this measure at the expense of not making as much money as he could have with the ECW brand featured on WWE's TV programming.
"My personally opinion – and 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," Douglas told Brian Fritz in an interview for Fanhouse.com. "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."
Link: Douglas's entire thought-provoking interview with Brian Fritz can be read at Fanhouse.com.
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