Francine additional revealed that there have been lengthy rumors of traders, together with Smashing Pumpkins frontman and future NWA proprietor, Billy Corgan, trying to purchase ECW, just for Heyman to refuse to promote it. As nothing was ever confirmed, Francine stays not sure how true any of the rumors had been, and that it is nonetheless a dialogue level for former ECW expertise to at the present time. What Francine does know, nonetheless, is when she knew ECW was formally lifeless.
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“The final PPV that we did, we had been advised we had been going to do one other PPV,” Francine mentioned. “So we closed the present and we shaped a brand new faction, and my promo was the final promo on that final PPV, speaking with the brand new faction that I had with these guys. It was Steve Corino, Jack Victory, Justin Credible, and myself. And we had been going to be this new drive to be reckoned with and all that stuff. And We had been below the belief that we had one other PPV arising.
“And we did not, and none of us had been advised that Paul signed a deal, properly I wasn’t advised, I am unable to say none of us, with WWE or WWF, no matter they had been on the time. I obtained a cellphone name at 9:30 within the morning, the Monday that Paul was debuting on ‘Uncooked,’ it was Dreamer, and he mentioned ‘I simply need to let you already know, Paul goes to be on ‘Uncooked.” And that was the ultimate nail within the coffin for me. I used to be similar to ‘Okay, that is 100% finished.'”
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