Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 2:58 PM EST

The Poughkeepsie Journal has an interview up with Paul Heyman promoting an upcoming ECW House Show on August 28 in the city. Heyman talked about a variety of ECW topics such as ECW One Night Stand, the decision to bring the brand back and why the current brand can't be the ECW of old.

On the first ECW One Night Stand PPV:
"I thought it was great closure. It was a night everyone waited five years for. But people wouldn't stop buying the DVDs, the books, the t-shirts."

Why the new ECW brand has to be different:
"You really need to help people understand that this can't be a nostalgia show. It's great to go to Yankee Stadium for Old Timers' Day. It does great business one day a year. But nobody wants to see Stan Musial step up to the plate. They want to see A-Rod. Well, maybe not how he's hitting today. But they want to see the A-Rods, the Mike Piazzas, the Johnny Damons. Once a year, it's wonderful. But presenting these guys as though it were still 1999 is not going to happen."

On working with Vince McMahon:
"It's an interesting clash of two eccentric personalities with two totally different takes on the business, but who respect each other's visions."

On negative feedback to the ECW brand:
"This is what everyone has been clamoring for. If you just sit on the sidelines, it's going to go on without you. ECW can go on without Tommy Dreamer or The Sandman or RVD or Paul Heyman. You've got to be in it to win it. If you're not involved, you're not going to be able to get the product structured the way you like it. If you want something different, be vocal about it."

On CM Punk's debut in ECW:
"You have to look into the eyes of a guy like CM Punk. Five years down the road, this is the guy that stands in Rob Van Dam's and Sabu's and Kurt Angle's shoes. The groundwork from today has to be laid for tomorrow."

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