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Post by Andrew is Good on Apr 19, 2014 10:39:48 GMT -5
Apter mags for me too. I would hassle my parents to get me pro wrestling magazines back in 1995, and I first read about ECW there. I even had a poster that I pulled out of the magazine of Terry Funk piledriving Cactus Jack on a flaming branding iron.
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Post by Ken: The Hero of WWE on Apr 19, 2014 11:17:59 GMT -5
The ECW One Night Stand 2005 PPV.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Apr 19, 2014 12:01:13 GMT -5
first was an issue of WOW magazine that was either the year in review or best wrestler of the year or something like that and Taz was one of the three main people they had articles on
second was ECW on TNN
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Post by agent817 on Apr 19, 2014 12:13:52 GMT -5
Back in 1998, I first discovered ECW when I used to watch those PPV promo trailers at 6 a.m. on weekdays (Man, those were the days). I remember thinking it looked somewhat interesting and the first time I had watched anything that had to do with it was the countdown show to November To Remember 1998. I still remember that they showed Rob Zombie's "Dragula" video with ECW footage on it. I remember being rather interested that I decided to check it out once and for all when I watched Guilty As Charged on PPV back in January of 1999. I didn't get ECW where I live so the only way for me to watch it was on pay-per-view, well, until TNN started airing ECW.
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Post by lildude8218 on Apr 19, 2014 12:23:26 GMT -5
my dad had one of the huge satellite dishes and would get the fat monthly guide every month. One time I noticed in the sports section that wrestling was listed. so I decided to flip to whatever channel it was and saw my first ECW show. this was either late 1993 or early 1994. My first memories were "Awesome" Mike Awesome and Tommy Dreamer kicking out of the Superfly splash. I was only able to watch it for a few weeks. it was on at a weird time and sometimes I'd just forget. then in the middle of 1995 it popped up on a local cable sports channel.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 19, 2014 15:06:38 GMT -5
Sometime in 94 I saw ads for the tapes in PWI. The syndicated show didn't air in my area until I moved. So I would order a tape,or trade for them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 15:22:57 GMT -5
My uncle taped it for me off of the Spanish Channel one Saturday morning. The episode had RVD vs. Doug Furnas and was the setup to RVD and Sabu teaming up for the first time. I can't really remember anything else from the episode except that one match, though. But for a while, he'd try to tape it every week for me.
I was somewhat familiar with it through the magazines, but this was my first time watching it. One other thing I remember is them advertising the Brian Pillman t-shirt after Pillman was announced to have signed with the WWF.
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Post by drgonzo on Apr 19, 2014 15:30:05 GMT -5
I used to rent WWF tapes from a video store when I was a kid. And this girl worked there and her boyfriend would always be hanging out behind the counter with her. He would always tell me it was good I didn't watch WCW and would talk to me about wrestling. I got to where I knew if he was in the store before I went in. The girl drove a white Nova (The car strictly manufactured for women of the white trash persuasion.) And a blue kidnapper van. One day he wasn't there but the girl was and he had told her to give me a stack of tapes and she sent them with me. I live in TX so I had never heard of ECW. The stack had mostly ECW tapes and a Japanese tape of a Super J Cup. They were all dubs and some had some tracking issues. But I distinctly remember Double Tables, Heatwave 95, Gangsta's Paradise and November To Remember 95.
It was awesome. After that he started selling me dubs for cheap when I went to rent my weekly dose of Friday The 13th and NOES movies.
Looking back on it I was 10 and he might have been trying to sleep with me. He did have a van.
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Apr 19, 2014 21:24:10 GMT -5
Just flipping around one morning at 1:59 am, I caught the tale end of a Miserlou segment and thought "Nice, more wrestling. Have to watch this next week."
Next week the first half of the show was all fan cam which I did not like, but the promos and music were great. Main event was Sabu vs Mikey, which I thought would be a jobber squash but was such an entertaining match I was hooked till the day ECW died.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 22:20:27 GMT -5
I really don't remember how exactly I discovered it, but first thing I think I remember seeing was an in ring segment with Taz and Steve Corino, who was trying to weasel his way out of a match. Taz said something to the effect of, "I want you to call up your family and tell them goodbye, because I'm going to f***ing kill you" and I just about died laughing. Then Rhino showed up and had a match with Taz. This had to have been sometime in '99 or something.
Used to love watching ECW and Roller Jam on TNN on Friday night.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Apr 19, 2014 22:32:42 GMT -5
I used to see it on the tv listings on msg network in new york on saturday night/sunday morning. One night i decided to set my vcr to see what it was all about and the first match i saw was a four way dance for the tv title between 2 cold scorpio, pitbull 2, jericho and shane douglas. I was hooked because i never saw a match like that before.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Apr 19, 2014 23:08:11 GMT -5
The Apter mags, I think. ECW's syndicated show would pop up on some obscure channel every so often; I mostly remember the ads for their videos. For example, one tape included "the night Kimona Wanalaya danced atop the ECW Arena!" Another was for "Born to Be Wired" featuring the Terry Funk vs. Sabu barbed wire match.
I begged my parents to let me get Barely Legal, but they wouldn't. They let me get Hardcore Heaven that year and … yeah. I still remember an ad for the show's poster and Paul Heyman making the joke that "this poster has better lighting than the PPV!"
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Post by triplethreatmark on Apr 20, 2014 0:32:58 GMT -5
I remember as a kid, my uncle and I would stay up real late at night and watch stuff like WWF Superstars and those UFC highlight shows they had when they were still pretty underground. One night we decided to stay up real late and I vaguely remember watching an episode of Hardcore TV( I remember the intro) with him on some really obscure public access channel here in LA. I want to say this was around '96 or '97. Anyways, I don't think we ever followed up because I don't remember watching another episode again. On the other hand, I was 4, so even if we did, I don't really remember anymore.
Anyways, fast forward to about mid-2007 where I had fallen out or wrestling but still had a friend who was still a big fan(Ironically enough, I'm the big fan now and he's fallen out of it). Anyways, he was obsessed with ECW at the time thanks to WWE's constant pushing of it for two years prior and the fact that ECW was going to become the 3rd brand for the WWE. A few months later, I discovered that my cousin had a copy of The Rise and Fall of ECW and we watched it together. After watching that and hearing some of the hype from my buddy, I was sold. As soon as I got home, I started going through Youtube, Dailymotion, and I even downloaded torrents of ECW PPV VHS tapes. Suffice to say, I became obsessed with ECW for a while and I'm actually thankful for that since it brought me back into the fold and helped me discover the Indies which really reaffirmed my return as a wrestling fan.
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Post by Aceorton on Apr 21, 2014 10:43:21 GMT -5
I caught references to the Tommy Dreamer-Raven feud in PWI and thought it was just some lame indie thing. I was a WWF guy.
A year or so later, my freshman year in college, I immediately fell in with some wrestling fans on my dorm floor. Through them, I met an ECW nut whose dad (who lived in New York) would tape the weekly shows off TV and mail them to him. That guy was adamant I needed to get into ECW and started showing me stuff with Sabu, RVD, Stevie Richards, the Blue Meanie and Pillman. The ECW invasion of Raw was a few months later, and then the first PPV, so it all just came together right around then.
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Post by TGM on Apr 21, 2014 11:40:08 GMT -5
I first heard about them through those lame Hardcore Revolution games for Playstation. The first event I bought on VHS was Anarchy Rules 1999 (because there were no WWF or WCW VHS) which blew my mind because I'd been slowly drifting from the faster paced WCW to the grittier but slower WWF.
This event was brutal and the matches were so cool when I was a teen. I was soon a stupid wrestling hipster with a smug face in school, telling people how ECW was the only wrestling I'd watch, even though I didn't really watch that much. I think in its dying days it was shown in the UK on Bravo.
Trying to tell people that Justin Credible was a better world champion than Triple H was quite hilarious.
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