Random ECW Thoughts

[Wii M Punk]

In similar fashion to the Random WCW thoughts post on this board, post your thoughts and memories in your head about the old ECW.



- I always loved how the wrestlers entrance themes were by real bands.

- Why did New Jack's music have to play the whole way through out his matches? This became very annoying in the later ECW DVDs where it's been dubbed over with some generic song. So poorly dubbed that the commentary and crowd noise is dubbed to.

- Rhino was a really angry man wasn't he? Although telling New Jack he was going to make him s*** his own face out is still one of the best promos I've ever heard. Rhino, you are the f***ing man.

- Sandman's entrance is fantastic. Too bad his in-ring skills are non-existant.

- I always loved Justin Credible's name and awesome catchphrase. Because, hey, it's not just the coolest and it's not just the best, it's Justin Credible!

- RVD vs Jerry Lynn @ Hardcore Heaven 1999 is a perfect match.

- Bubba Ray Dudley shooting on the crowd at Heatwave 1999 is damn good. Things get really heated and are borderline hostile but it's so good. He really tears some of them to pieces.

- Dawn Marie was hotter than Francine but in the grand scale of things the ECW women always looked so rough compared to WWE and WCW's women.

- For some reason I always found myself marking for Steve Corino. Looking back he wasn't great but I seemed to really like him at the time. And a mention for Jack Victory... "HIGH SPOT!!"

- "ECW...... Simon has a problem..."

- Jerry Lynn writing "DIE" on his chest using Steve Corino's own blood seeping from his head at Heatwave 2000 was a mark out moment and a bit freaky if I'm honest.

- The Sinister Minister was a great gimmick and a great manager.

- The ECW games on the PS1 were so disappointing when it was obvious they were just the WWF Attitude game engine with ECW guys.

- I never really liked Joel Gertner and didn't find him all that funny but I did mark when he showed up at One Night Stand 2005.

- "OH MY GOD!!!"

- Brian Pillman's debut promo in ECW back in 1996 is a joy to behold.

- As is Steve Austin's shoot promo on Bischoff, Dusty and all of WCW.

- The Mass Transit incident is brutal.

- Even as a Catholic myself, I actually enjoyed Raven crucifying The Sandman.

- Kid Kash's suicide dive onto a crowd of about 40 wrestlers the night he beat Rhino for the TV Title is truly epic!

- Sabu is, was and forever will be the craziest motherf***ing wrestler I've ever seen.

- Spike Dudley took the best bumps in the business. Just watch him take on Mike Awesome for the ECW Title at Guilty as Charged 2000 and watch him go through countless tables.

- The 3 way dance between Tajiri, Super Crazy and Little Guido is my favourite match from ECW One Night Stand 2005.

- I never understood with such a huge arsenal of impressive moves, why is RVD's finishing move crap in comparison? Can't he come up with something more exciting and innovating than a frog splash?

- I always thought RVD's promo skills were lacking. Fonzy did most the talking anyway and RVD was often to out his head on weed to know what was going on.

- Hey remember when Tazz was Taz and he actually wrestled? AND was actually a wrecking machine in the ring? Good days. *sigh*

- Roadkill and Danny Doring were such a random, strange and odd looking tag team weren't they?

- I don't really associate Steve Austin with ECW as much as WWE does. He was only there for a few months between his WCW firing and being picked up by WWE.

- New Jack and Vic Grimes bump off the scaffolding @ Living Dangerously 2000..... God Damn!!

- Balls Mahoney + Table + Fire = OH HELL YEAH!

- The only crowd that can compete with an ECW Crowd is the audience at MSG.

- "EC-DUB! EC-DUB! EC-DUB!!"

[Agent P]

I loved Corino's promo when he turned face on The Network.

[Angus Mcloud]

- I never understood with such a huge arsenal of impressive moves, why is RVD's finishing move crap in comparison? Can't he come up with something more exciting and innovating than a frog splash?

At the time it was a lot less basterdized. Only him,Dlo and Eddie used it and they were all in diffrent companys

[agent817]

The thing I liked about ECW was that the events were usually held at smaller venues. When I first watched ECW, I was wondering why the arena was so small, but then I thought, "Hey, the smaller venues have more of a better feel for the fans".

[American Dragon]

I always loved the small areas they held their shows in, especially at the Viking Hall (ECW Arena, New Alhambra Arena). To this day, I still love that arena more than any other venue, it's quite surreal how a wrestling company can turn a small storage place and bingo hall into a world-known arena.

[Ultimo Chocula]

I marked for Stevie and Meanie.

[johnnyk9]

-Although not offical in name until 2003, Vince McMahon has owned ECW since 1996

[PrimeTyme]

- The Impact Players were a great team

- Taz was a bad ass

- Sandman has the best entrance ever

- Steve Austin's promo about WCW is a Top 5 Promo for me

- Ditto on Foleys Anti Hardcore Promo

- Funk vs. Sabu Barbed Wire Match....sick

- Heatwave 1998 is one of the best all around PPVs I've ever watched....too bad my tape is pooching out on me

[jobber2thestars]

I loved how bad-ass Rhino was in the dying days of ECW. He was like a psycho version of Goldberg.

The Dudley's insulting the crowd was always great.

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Nova and Chris Chetti's finisher, the Tidal Wave, was ridiculous and awesome. A combination splash and leg drop, from the same top rope, was something straight out of a cartoon.

I've always wanted the Sandman to have, kayfabe, gone to the same summer camp that Dreamer, Raven, and Beulah kayfabe went to as kids. If Beulah was a chubby girl, I would've loved the Sandman to be the nerdy kid who was the Dungeon Master for D&D games between Dreamer, Raven, and, oh, let's say Taz, who was the jock who secretly played a Drow Ranger like Vin Diesel.

[Angus Mcloud]

I think the bWos Blue Light Special was one of the coolest moves ive ever seen.

One thing ECW did better than any other promotion is shocking entrances. Sandmans return,RVDs return,Pillmans debut,Scott Halls one apperance,Sids debut. I think they were all great.

[The QC Loser]

Mar 31, 2010 12:48:10 GMT -5 agent817 said:

The thing I liked about ECW was that the events were usually held at smaller venues. When I first watched ECW, I was wondering why the arena was so small, but then I thought, "Hey, the smaller venues have more of a better feel for the fans".

I agree with this. While I have never been to the ECW arenas and such I have been to a few local shows held in small venues and I have been to a few Monday Night Raws. The smaller shows always seemed so much bigger and more fun.

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Mar 31, 2010 11:24:34 GMT -5 Angus Mcloud said:

- I never understood with such a huge arsenal of impressive moves, why is RVD's finishing move crap in comparison? Can't he come up with something more exciting and innovating than a frog splash?

At the time it was a lot less basterdized. Only him,Dlo and Eddie used it and they were all in diffrent companys

Well in ecw he had the van daminator too, which was always cooler looking, and then splash was more of a "guy is already knocked out, so this will be the exclimation point" move.

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When Van Dam first wrestled in ECW, he still used the split-legged moonsault as a match-ender. I understand why he went to the frog splash, that moonsault just didn't look like it could beat anybody unless they were completely incapacitated, like Sabu at "A Matter Of Respect", 5/11/96. Van Dam had just hit him with a fisherman's buster from the second rope that looked like it broke a couple of Sabu's ribs.

[Agent P]

Paul Heyman has no one to blame but himself for the stuff that went down with TNN. He refused to do anything the network asked him to do and then would openly mock them on the shows.

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

I always liked the fact that the women of ECW looked dirty.

Especially Chastity and Francine

[Chuckie Finster]

I loved how Tajiri use to kick the shit out of everyone, especially Super Crazy. I especially liked during one 3-way dance he was just kicking Super Crazy in the head over and head. Guido tried to get in the ring, Tajiri saw him, calmly walked over, buzzsaw kicked him off the apron and calmly went back to destroying Super Crazy.

I wish WWE would do the Double Jeopady match (two singles matches at the same time, winners face then fight each other). Ditto for the Ultimate Jeopardy match.

[Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan]

The fact that Sandman was a bad "worker" made him that much more awesome to me.

[Agent P]

Apr 2, 2010 21:34:53 GMT -5 Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite said:

I always liked the fact that the women of ECW looked dirty.

Especially Chastity and Francine

Years later when she was in TNA I always thought young Alexis Laree would work well in ECW because she always looked dirty to me.

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The WWE really should have an Ultimate Jeopardy match. Everybody has to put something on the line. I would be very intrigued.