ECW

>>2719226

Danny Doring's trunks that said "I'M HUNG" on the ass

>>2719226
the themes were always the best

the rebirth of wrestlers was beneficial to the business

the belts looked like trash but in a good way

seeing Raven used just like he should was uplifting

>Extreme Championship Wrestling Wrestling

Hardcore TV is the greatest wrestling show ever produced, bar none.

>>2719241
worked by RAS syndrome

ECW was decades ahead with this shit

>>2719241
after decades of seeing this logo,why did you HAVE to ruin it for me NOW?

Today's extreme promotions lack the charm that ECW had. Nick Gage would've been such a fuckin star in ECW

Simon Diamond and Dick Hertz were GOAT

Sandman bragging about beating up his wife. Why can't wrestling be like this anymore?

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>>2719226
That time they had a segment where the ECW Divas would play strip poker

>>2719345
Sandman is still GOAT today.

I miss the Pulp Fiction promos. Don't get me wrong, the wrestling was good, but that mid/after show banter set to Misirlou is what made ECW for me.

[spoiler]That and violent garbage wrestling.[/spoiler]

>>2719226
Fans turning heel and filling the ring with chairs

The three way dances between Tajiri, Super Crazy and Little Guido
Lance Storm vs Jerry Lynn
Joey Styles commenting
Joel Gertner's limericks
Paul E. Heyman going psychotic on the microphone
The intro song
Really, I could go on for hours

>>2719254
Agreed, CZW just feels like a yard tard promotion.

Tommy Dreamer

The rowdy crowds. I was at anarchy rulz 2000 and before the show some drunk in the balcony was acting lime he was gonna jump, which got a "push the faggot" chant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFvbWxmE5cM

or as the faggot network would like you to think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDOo_PocWA

Too much to say really. It remains my favorite wrestling company ever to this day. WCW and WWE actually borrowed a lot from ECW. ECW innovated or popularized a lot of things we see in wrestling today and that even includes the small things we rarely think about today like tapping out to a submission in a match.

ECW had this way of making nearly every guy on the roster, no matter how shit, seem important. Paul Heyman knew how to get shit over. Meanwhile WWE continues to struggle getting most people to like Reigns.

>>2719771
I met him at an indie show

I began a marathon of ECW on the network, starting with episode 1 of Hardcore TV. Stevie Wonderful is based

>>2720112
>ECW on the network
see >>2719805

Just go download the original shit from a torrent site. The music is a large part of what made it good.

>>2720168
Links?

>>2719767
I thought CZW *was* a yard tard promotion? Admittedly, all I've seen of it is Botchamania.

>>2720306
Somehow it managed to give the world Deanetty

>>2719226
member when steve corino invaded the limp biscuit concert an when axel and other jobbers invaded rrrrrrrolerjam?

>>2720112
>I began a marathon of ECW on the network
I feel bad for you.
>starting with episode 1
Just start in '95

>>2720483
And miss out on the likes of the Rockin' Rebel and "Hitman" Tony Stetson?

>>2719754
My nigga

Tazz explaining how Bill Alfonso was the only one who has his back, and the crowd starts chanting "SUCK HIS DICK! SUCK HIS DICK!"

>>2721940
"FUCK ME? NO....FUCK YOU!"

This random sign at this random show that said, "Your Dad is Gay"

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Francine's big titties. Always loved how trashy and slutty she looked.
Prime Sunny and Dawn Marie
Any combination of RVD, Jerry Lynn and Lance Storm
Stairway to Hell match
Born to be Wired match
Beaulah vs Bill Alfonso
The Taz vs Sabu FTW title match where Bam Bam just showed up, beat the fuck out of them and they said fuck it, three way dance and it was nuts
Mike Awesome's title reign and matches with Masato Tanaka
Bam Bam tossing Spike into the crowd, and the crowd catching him and crowd surfing him around
New Jack beating the shit out of anyone and everyone

>>2719356
OP said before it died you fucking idiot. Get out of here kid.

Rob Van Dam being a big fish in a little pond was my favorite

>>2723201
>ECW was ended on February 20th 2010 with Ezekiel Jackson as the last ever ECW champion
ftfy, friend.

>>2720079
Attitude Era WWF was the reality of WCW mixed with the cool, edgy (before that word became bastardised) product of ECW

>alexa bliss was born way too late to be in ecw

my heart hurts

the only thing i didn't like about ecw was alfonso. fucking annoying with his constant whistle blowing, stealing the spotlight from tazz and sabu by getting in the camera's face during their entrances and putting his punchable rat face front and center. his voice was almost as obnoxious as his whistle. too bad he didn't bleed out completely in that one match he had. fuck fonzie.

>>2723300
WWECW doesn't count

>>2719226
The promos.

Jerry Lynn saying something to the effect of: "Huh, it really is a bingo hall." during one of his promos still cracks me up on the those rare occasions it pops into my head.

Honestly though, most of it was entertaining without wearing out it's welcome or being forced on the viewer. I miss it.

>>2723310
I would consider it more of a campy exaggerated comedy form of ECW. Like I said before, it would be a pretty long post to mention what ECW either innovated or popularized for wrestling. I'll try and mention some noteworthy stuff here.

Some greats of today like Stone Cold Steve Austin, was actually showing signs of his character first in ECW before he went to WWF. Guys like Jericho, Malenko and Benoit, including others were noticed and signed to the bigger companies thanks to their work in ECW.

Haitch actually ripped off a lot from Shane Douglas character. Even though I would say HHH is still original enough to not be a blatant rip off.

I actually found this out last night and apparently I must have forgotten but WWE even had Noble and Kid Kash doing the Pitbulls gimmick years later. They were even calling them by the same name. It didn't last long though and obviously those two would never have been able to do that gimmick as well.

It basically popularized hardcore wrestling as we know it. That even includes the more watered down hardcore wrestling WWE does today.

Taz either innovated or popularized tapping people out in wrestling. May have happened in wrestling before that but Taz without a doubt popularized the concept. Before that wrestlers would either pass out or give the ref verbal submission.

Sabu essentially popularized tables being used in the US.

ECW did the triple threat every man for himself match before the other two did.

Sandman was drinking beer and being a hardcore SOB well before Stone Cold. Whether he intentionally stole or not fact is Sandman came before Austin.

The ascension basically does a variation on the elimination finisher innovated by the Eliminators.

Dudley's definitely innovated the 3D. Funny how WWE actually tried giving it to Harper and Rowen that one time.

ECW popularized more realistic wrestling characters in general.

>>2719783
Was that in minneapolis?

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>manlets aren't bas-

>>2723523
Can a post be Based? Because this post is Based.

>>2723568
I liked his LSD gimmick

>>2723584
There is more to.

They popularized, perhaps even innovated in the US at least, intentional male violence against women. Think Bubba power bombing Mae Young through a table. These days you'll never get this in PC PG WWE.

More on Haitch. Haitch like Shane before him, liked to surround himself with others in a group. True that Flair was before these guys but Haitch borrows so much more from The Franchise then he does Flair. The Franchise was cutting edgy heel promos well before HHH. In fact HHH even started wearing hats in the 90's only after Shane did it first. Doesn't stop their either. Shane was surrounding himself with baes before HHH did it. Again of course Flair came before these two but as I said, HHH borrowed more from Douglas than he did Flair. I'd even go so far to say HHH even borrowed Shane's look a bit. With that said I still like HHH and I consider him original and unique enough to not be a completely blatant rip off.

I'm pretty sure ECW did the barbed wire match well before you saw barbed wire allowed in WWE. I wouldn't be surprised if ECW innovated that in the US at least. To be fair here, the Japs did do a lot of shit first before the US for hardcore wrestling. With that said, don't ever count on their being a barbed wire match in WWE (where the ropes are barbed wire). TNA has actually done such a match with Abyss vs Sabu. But lol its TNA.

It is getting a bit redundant but yeah they popularized/innovated most of the hardcore shit we see in wrestling today. That includes flaming table spots. I will say though cool on WWE to innovate those inferno matches. Only really works for certain characters though.

For better or worse (these days I'd say worse) ECW fans popularized and innovated way too much chants to really even remember it all. Holy shit and this is awesome? Definitely heard that in ECW before ever hearing it anywhere else. Difference is ECW fans never overdid it with these now annoying chants. Not the case today.

>>2723584
>>2723621
Just a bit more on HHH copying Shane Douglas kek.

Both will go down as average at best wrestlers in the ring. This is an opinion not only I have but even many wrestlers in the industry think at least about HHH.

They both idolized Ric Flair a lot.

With Shane Douglas a lot of his edginess was actually genuine due to the above. He eventually went on to hate Ric Flair.

Much of Shane's character came from feeling like he was overlooked by those in charge. Probably real feelings he had outside of the character. He felt he was way better than that and deserved to be recognized as such. Sound an awful lot like one famous guy we all know today?

The reason Benoit became known as the crippler? Well because he broke Sabu's fucking neck that is why.

>>2722111
>Francine
>always loved how trashy and slutty she looked
Mah nigga. 1000 times mah nigga.

The Awesome/Tanaka series.
The Tajiri/Guido/Super Crazy series.
The way Taz and sometimes RVD managed to give their ppv matches the "big fight feel" that only Brock can manage now.
The healthy well-cared for tag division.
The fact that they didn't hide the fact that other promotions existed, openly mentioning rival companies and co-operating with FMW, WWF and the mexican leagues.
JOEL GERTNER
The surprisingly good commentary duo of Joey Styles and Cyrus on later ppvs.
The Dudleys basically being allowed to do whatever they wanted as heels.
The handling of Rhino from a green rookie into an unstoppable monster.
Raven being the coolest man in wrestling in the mid to late 90s.
The smark crowd. It was fine when it was 400 nutters in Philadelpha and house shows, where as today it's full grown manchildren at every wwe event.

>>2719392
Agreed. If I was in a fight, then I'd still want the sandman on my team.

>>2723398
>ECW was purchased by Vince McMahon and was used as a middle ground between developmental and the main WWE roster, having purchased the rights to the ECW name and belts ECW as a part of WWE can only be seen as a continuation of the lineage of Extreme Championship Wrestling and to suggest otherwise would be ignoring everything ECW built as a legacy now that it has ended as of February 2010 with the prestigious ECW title that has lineage all the way down to Shane Douglas being around the waist of ECW wrestler Ezekiel Jackson

>>2723685
>The way Taz and sometimes RVD managed to give their ppv matches the "big fight feel" that only Brock can manage now.

This is so true. Although desu I like Cena and Roman since the fans react strongest to these guys outside of Lesnar.

>>2723685
>>Francine
>>always loved how trashy and slutty she looked
>Mah nigga. 1000 times mah nigga.

My nigs.

They don't make 'em like that anymore. Trashy 90's sluts with bolt-ons will always be my thing. Too bad it's all but extinct.

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Joel "beat my meat at the meet and greet" Gertner

>>2723540
St. Paul, so yeah basically

>>2725029
Oh, right. Duh. Roy Wilkins Auditorium.

I was there. Third row, opposite camera. I got kicked out 3 minutes before Jerry Lynn won the title. One of the worst moments of my God-damned life.

>>2725460
That sucks. I was way in the back upper level facing the entrance. When Jerry won it was the loudest reaction Ive ever heard at a wrestling event.

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>>2719226
it ruined the business as we know it today, now our "heroes" are DYEL superkick faggots and boring Samoans with chest armor

FUCK ECW

>>2724805
and that 90s landing strip. I hate how all the porn whore models these days dont have hair

>>2725460
Yep. Would have been one person louder had I not got 86ed for the stupidest reason ever. I threw a crunched-down paper cup over the guardrail, intentionally not hitting anyone after Francine's interference. I was one of dozens doing the same thing, but I got kicked out by ASA security. I just wanted to be part of the show, man.

I still have it on VHS somewhere.That feel when you can see me the whole show, but then cannot be found during the final three minutes.

>>2725856
90's, truly the best decade.

>>2722111
Just googled her nowadays. Tucking prime milf. Looks like your friends hot mom we all had.

>>2725728
>now our "heroes" are DYEL superkick faggots

No fuck off with that crap. Most ECW wrestlers knew that they still had to lift unlike the faggots of today who prefer to eat at the local McDonalds or play video games instead.

There was never any moment that I can recall where you saw superkicks being thrown out like in a Young Bucks match or like in that triple threat match I saw for Progress Wrestling. Meme wrestling is more a modern day thing.

WELL WELL WELL
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>>2723523
Heyman got tap outs from UFC

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>>2726752
no you fuck off

ECW spawned the indy Smark crowd that we know and despise today
that need to be hot shot on a daily basis while they jerk off in their bullet club shirts to Indy women wrestling instagram pages sending creepy messages
the "wrestlers" are becoming more broken on a physical level
and fuck you for making me reenact jim cornette's voice in my head while typing lol

>>2727332
Jim Cornette is just upset that ECW is remembered way more than his Smokey Mountain Wrestling ever was. He also is still pissed about Heyman taking The Gangstas.

>>2727332
>ECW spawned the indy Smark crowd that we know and despise today

18+
12+
4+
Please be conceived

>>2728736
lol what? It totally did, ROH's initial audience was the remnants of ECW's original audience.