ECW original Francine took to an episode of her Eyes Up Here podcast, where she talked about a number of topics including why she didn’t appear at ECW One Night Stand 2006.
Francine said, “They told me, they said you could come but you’re not booked, and I said I’m not traveling. If I’m not being paid, I’m not coming. I remember Tommy (Dreamer) going, ‘It would be good if you came.’ And I went, ‘I’m not coming.’ So, I didn’t go. Why? So I could just run out at the end and be like this in the camera for no payday? Get out of here. This is the first time we are all back together. A year later, when everyone saw it for the first time, it didn’t have the same pizzaz. Now, if I was booked and I was getting paid, I would have been there. But why should I?”
On WWE bringing back ECW as a brand:
“I think it would have been okay to bring us back every year as a novelty pay per view. I don’t think the organization should have come back and been under their banner. It was a disaster. If it was brought back, presented the way we were told. It would’ve worked.”
You can check out the complete podcast below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
