This past Sunday, TNA put on their ECW tribute pay-per-view, Hardcore Justice. The card was a who's who of old-time ECW personalites. There were appearances from The Sandman, Raven, Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, Bill Alfonso, Justin Credible, Balls Mahoney, Axl Rotten, and The Dudleys, to name a few. The show itself received mixed reviews.
A while back, I blogged about how doing this show was not a good idea for a variety of reasons. While I haven't wavered from that stance, as the title of this post indicates, I do need to eat a little bit of crow. According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter (http://www.fromheadlockstoheadlines.com/2010/08/report-early-buy-rate-number-for-tna.html), early projections indicate that Hardcore Justice had a buyrate in the neighborhood of 20,000 buys. To give a little perspective, TNA's May and June pay-per-views, Sacrifice and Slammiversary, respectively, did about 8,000 buys a piece. While none of these numbers are great (WCW did about 40,000 buys when the end was near), this goes to show that TNA put on a show that wrestling fans wanted to see. While I'm sure some, if not most, of the TNA wrestlers under contract were not happy about giving up a PPV bonus to a bunch of hired guns, the show brought the company some much-needed business.
Pass the salt.
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