PAUL HEYMAN'S CONSPIRACY THEORY ON THE JOEY STYLES - MIKE ADAMLE ECW ANNOUNCING DEBACLE
Written by Dan Bristow (wrestlingnewsdesk@gmail.com)   
Sunday, 20 April 2008

12:18 AM EST

 


 
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Paul Heyman has posted his blog as part of the Heyman Hustle series in the UK Sun, and this week Paul E presents his case on the Mike Adamle ECW announcing debacle. Heyman himself labels what he writes as a "conspiracy theory," but he presents an awfully compelling case that Vince McMahon not only knows how bad Mike Adamle is, he's actually counting on it! Says The Mad Scientist of Extreme:
 
In a decision that really threw everyone for a loop, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and Executive Producer Kevin Dunn pulled Joey Styles from the position of ECW play-by-play announcer, and replaced him with the indescribably amateurish Mike Adamle.

 

The reaction was immediate. Even those who never saw Joey in the original Extreme Championship Wrestling were outraged.

 

Adamle's performance was so terrible, it drew an intense reaction from even casual fans who couldn't possibly care less, and who were ready to take a baseball bat and smash their television sets after listening to his butchering of the program.

 

Now here's a little secret. SHHHHHHHH.... don't tell anyone.

 

For everyone who is so up in arms, screaming "we need to tell Vince what we think!" and "This guy's a total disaster," I have a scoop for you, and you're not going to like it.

 

Adamle is horrible. No one likes him. People at home actually loathe his presence on the show. AND THAT'S

EXACTLY THE SORT OF PASSIONATE RESPONSE VINCE McMAHON IS LOOKING FOR!!!

 

Do you really think Vince doesn't realise how incompetent this tra-la-la-goon-de-yay of an announcer is? The ECW

show from the UK was TAPED.

 

That means there was time for Adamle to grab a mic backstage and clean up the performance. Not the whole miserable, horrible, intolerable hour. Just the really obvious "branding" issues, like all 3 letters that identify World Wrestling Entertainment. Hey, that would be a start, don't you think? OK, here it is. Oliver Stone can kiss my kosher a**. This conspiracy is presented to you ... BECAUSE IT'S TRUE!!!

 

Vince McMahon is not only keenly aware of just how bad Mike Adamle is, he's counting on it. That's why there was no editing done to clean up Adamle's embarrassingly bad performance.

 

WWE's ECW is doing 1.2 and 1.3 ratings on Sci-Fi. That may keep Bonnie Hammer and Sci-Fi happy because very little else on that network comes close to that number, but I remember the panic setting in when the new ECW was "crashing" into the 2.1 zone.

 

The show has simply settled in with the audience that will watch whatever product is on, be it "Heat," "Velocity," "TNA," or any other lite version of Raw or Smackdown.

 

So Vince's big idea for ECW is the train-wreck mentality! I can just see Vince right now, believing every word he himself says. "This guy is so bad, how can anyone NOT watch the show?" And he means it.

 

Vince actually believes that Mike Adamle is so mind-bogglingly awful, so ill-prepared, so horribly wrong for the show, that people will never be able to turn the dial. It's the Britney Spears mentality. Is she wearing her panties today? Uh oh, she's driving on the highway. Someone call the gossip blogs!

 

There's a lot more, and it's well worth reading. Highly recommended. Check out the column in its entirety at this link: http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/heyman/article1060395.ece