ECW走向全球
2006年5月26日 来源：WWE.COMWWE主席Vince McMahon决心大力发展ECW。事实上，在星期五下午WWE.COM对他的一次采访中，McMahon 透露说：“我们正在把ECW推向世界。”
像Paul Heyman, Tommy Dreamer and Sabu走向全世界一样,尽管如此，仍然距ECW于2001年的倒闭之前的情况很不一样。在费城以外，很多人把ECW看成不过是一个东北部的摔交联盟(promotion,如果不是联盟，又怎么翻？可原意却不是联盟吧？)罢了，但最近重新启动的ECW将不再如过去那样得花尽心思的制造影响了——无论是在本国土内还是在海外。事实上，据McMahon先生说，ECW正忙着自己的销售规划，申请许可，国际销售，直播赛事日程安排，以及一系列ECW PPV。
但有着如此多的WWE环球业务在其后起着影响，ECW还能象90年代后期，新世纪早期那样发展出一批跟随其后的宗教信徒似的崇拜者吗？
“我们会把ECW过去许多传奇式的人物推到前台来，”McMahon这样看待着今天的ECW，“但是不会仍和
过去一样了，那么做的可能性实在太小了。时间已经过了五年，很多的表演者多了五年的阅历，他们已失去了很多ECW式的风格，很多ECW观众也已意识到了这点。他们明白倘若ECW现在继续运行下去，那些选手将和五年前的他们大不相同了。”
尽管重新启动后的ECW无疑会和原先的不一样，McMahon坚称ECW绝不会停止革新，也不会变得类似于已获成功的WWE品牌SmackDown和RAW。
“毫无疑问，它将成为另一种品牌”WWE主席声称。“它不会照搬我们运营SD或RAW的方式。它将给人一种不同的感受，它将更生猛粗犷。会有更多的创造性投入其理念和人物中。另一方面还要做到保持一种微妙的平衡，因为ECW共有3个主人要照顾到。一个是小群的，有着他们自己声音的ECW观众；一个是习惯于更SCI FI方式的SCI FI观众们”（SCI FI是什么，请问？）另外很明显，就今天体育娱乐的现状来说，你也得为更广泛范围里的观众考虑。
随着已制定出的这么多的新ECW的光景，许多人想知道究竟为什么WWE花了这么长的时间来重新启动这个
品牌，在McMahon看来，这都是时机的问题。
“过去这几年我们一直忙着建立不独立存在的ECW的概念，”McMahon说“现在，从ECW DVD售卖的起伏
及其成功，还有去年One Night StandPPV的成功来看，这么做是对的。另外，看来今年的One Night Stand
PPV便是重新启动这个品牌的开端。”
新的ECW重启在即，前ECW领导Paul Heyman会在经营事务中负责任吗？“肯定了！”McMahon惊叫到“
不过，话说回来，是在McMahon先生的看管之下。”
[ 本帖最后由 xiazun 于 2006-6-13 10:59 编辑 ] 原文，望指教：ECW Going Global
May 26, 2006
WWE Chairman Vince McMahon has big plans for ECW. In fact, in a Friday afternoon interview with WWE.com, McMahon revealed, “We are taking the ECW brand global.”
Going worldwide with the likes of Paul Heyman, Tommy Dreamer and Sabu, however, is miles away from where ECW was prior to its closing in 2001. In fact, stationed out of Philadelphia, many looked at ECW as just a northeastern wrestling promotion. But the recently re-launched ECW will not have much of a struggle making an impact both here in the United States and overseas. In fact, according to Mr. McMahon, ECW already has plans for its own Merchandising and Licensing, International Sales, consistent Live Event schedule, as well as its own set of pay-per-views.
But with so much of WWE’s global enterprise behind it, can ECW be expected to be the same ECW it was when it developed its cult-like following in the late 1990s and early 2000s?
“We will bring forward many of the more legendary characters of ECW’s past,” said McMahon regarding today’s ECW. “But it can’t be the same. That’s pretty much impossible. It’s now five years later. A lot of the performers now have five more years under their belt, and the ECW style has taken a great deal out of them. This is something that the ECW audience already realizes. They know that if ECW was still in business today, they would be very different from what they were five years ago.”
While the re-launched ECW will undoubtedly be different from the original ECW, McMahon is adamant that the brand will not stop pushing the envelope, nor will it be like the already successful WWE brands SmackDown and RAW.
“It will be an alternative, there’s no doubt about that,” claimed the WWE Chairman. “It won’t be shot the same way we shoot SmackDown or RAW. It’ll have a different feel. It will be more gritty. There will also be more imagination put into concepts and characters. But at the same time, there will need to be a delicate balance because there are three masters to serve. There’s the small, vocal ECW audience. Then there’s the SCI FI audience that is accustomed to things more SCI FI. And obviously, you have to also be true to our broader audience in terms of what sports-entertainment is today.”
With so much of the vision of the new ECW brand already mapped out, many wonder what took WWE so long to re-launch the brand. According to McMahon, it was all about timing.
“Over the last several years, we have been busy re-establishing the concept of ECW without it having to be its own brand,” said McMahon. “Now, with the success of The Rise and Fall of ECW DVD and the success of last year’s One Night Stand pay-per-view, it just seemed right. And it feels like this year’s One Night Stand pay-per-view will be a launch to re-establish the brand.”
So with the launch of the re-established brand right around the corner, will former ECW head Paul Heyman have a role? “Absolutely,” exclaimed McMahon. “But at the end of the day, Mr. McMahon is in charge.” 沙发，ECWECW ECW ＥＣＷ ECW 谢谢翻译 谢谢翻译了！
谢谢翻译!
谢谢翻译，辛苦了!小弟斗胆指正一下!Going worldwide with the likes of Paul Heyman, Tommy Dreamer and Sabu
像Paul Heyman, Tommy Dreamer and Sabu走向全世界一样
LIKE在这里意思为“像什么什么一样，或者跟什么什么一样”这样翻译比较恰当! The likes 在這里是一個名詞
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和這些相似的人/物 Sci Fi 是ecw在美國播放的電視台的名稱
sci fi電影是科幻片的意思
sci fi小說就是科幻小說了... 谢谢翻译! 楼主辛苦了~~~
555都是英语强人~~~ 谢谢翻译 谢谢翻译了哦!很喜欢ECW. 谢谢翻译～～～～
Sci Fi是一个电视频道吧～～～
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