Reception
In June 2005, the two-disc set became the second best-selling WWE wrestling DVD of all-time, behind WrestleMania 21, and led to the ECW One Night Stand PPV event. As a result of these sales, WWE released an ECW DVD titled Bloodsport - ECW's Most Violent Matches, in February 2006.
Wrestling Observer Newsletter gave it the award of Best Pro Wrestling DVD of 2005. The success of the DVD led to a One Night Stand Pay Per View event in 2005 which would continue on an annual basis for a couple of years; after One Night Stand 2006, ECW was officially reborn as its own "brand" similar to Raw and Smackdown, although later it distanced itself from the original ECW and continued to operate until 2010 when it was replaced with NXT.
Read more about this topic: The Rise And Fall Of ECW
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)