Steve Corino question

[Epic Reine 0]

I was always a fan of ECW and a fan of Corino as well but can somebody tell me how Steve Corino made the drastic change from a cowardly heel to a huge face and ECW WORLD CHAMPION in a matter of months?

 

I watched ECW one week and he's running away from his opponents and barley getting wins. Jerry Lynn even made him bleed profusly. I stop watching ECW for a couple of months and when I turn back to it, he's grown facial hair and is the ECW Champion? How did this development go?

[Guest jm29195]

I watched ECW one week and he's running away from his opponents and barley getting wins. Jerry Lynn even made him bleed profusly. I stop watching ECW for a couple of months and when I turn back to it, he's grown facial hair and is the ECW Champion? How did this development go?

 

 

Steve Corino was a member of the network and began to get get respect from the bloodthirsty ECW fans by bleeding heavilly in all of his matches, see vs Taijiri from Hardcore Heaven 2000 and the previously mentioned match against Lynn at Heatwave 2000. At one show just after Heatwave 2000, both Corino and Scotty Anton apparently turned face and left the Network but Anton turned on Corino and went back to the Network on the next show.... Corino firstly recieved a title shot against Credible on the second nighter of the Hammerstein Ball Room shows in August 2000, he got over huge as a babyface with the live crowd and also recieved something of a rub off (Billy Coogan?) of the Smashing Pumpkins who was involved in a pre-match angle and the match itself.

Noticing the success of tihs, Corino was booked to go over CW Anderson at Anarcy Rulz 2000 in a no1 contenders match and went on to win the belt off Lynn at November 2 Remeber 2000..... Although Steve Corino was over as a face, most at the time thought his push was incredibly rushed and that he didn't deserve the belt- he was a very entertaining character at the time and had a number of E&C style skits with Jack Victory, adding comedy to his repertoire...

[The Dames 0]

It was very rushed and I would say that the title lost credibility because of it, especially since Jerry Lynn only had the title for about a month.

 

Dames

[Guest jm29195]

ECW's Heavyweight title really took a bashing in 2000-

 

Firstly Awesome had it and that was cool but on the ppv's he was at he only defended it against Spike Dudley at GAC and not at all at Living Dangerously (squashed Kid Kash and jobbed the tag belts to Tanaka though for some reason?)

Awesome then defected to WCW and the title jumped from Awesome to Taz(WWF)- Taz promptly lost in a sub ten minute match to HHH on Smackdown during which Tommy Dreamer also took a beating.... Dreamer beat Taz at Cyberslam 2000 and then lost it to Credible at the same event.

Credible held the belt for several months but wasn't a draw and fans were leaving/switching off in droves... then there was the 2 title changes at consecutive PPVs going from Credible to Lynn and then Lynn to Corino....

 

 

Still that pales in comparison to the damage done to the WCW title during the same period but there you go!

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Corino's bit with Limp Bizkit may be my favourite ECW moment of all time.

[Jingus 0]

Corino's babyface turn really took just one promo:

 

Justin Credible: "(ramble ramble)... and that's not just the best, that's not just the coolest, that's-"

Corino: "That's just THE LAMEST FUCKING CATCHPHRASE IN ALL OF WRESTLING!"

[Youth N Asia 0]

He also got over pretty well bleeding buckets for Jerry Lynn and Tajiri...he seemed a stretch as champion, but the ECW world title was iffy in 2000 anyway

[Guest netslob]

Corino's bit with Limp Bizkit may be my favourite ECW moment of all time.

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what i always wondered if anybody in attendence at that concert actually knew who Corino was.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I thought the same thing.

 

I subsequently wondered if anyone knew who Sandman, Balls and Axl were.

 

I appreciate the effort by ECW, but I'm sure they could have found a better band for the three to drink with after beating up Corino.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

"Fans were leaving in droves" for Credibles title reign? They got their biggest crowd during Credibles title reign, and I don't really recall seeing any empty seats during any of their TV.

 

I enjoyed the Corino/Lynn/Credible "feud", whether Corino was a "credible" champion in ECW was kinda irrelevant, since ECW wasn't really "credible" to begin with. Having WWE's and WCW's scraps tend to do that. So the question isn't about credibility, it's about believability. At that time in ECW, it was believable to me that Corino could contend with Lynn and Credible. Beat them? Not really, but he could hang. Getting the title IMO was a bit of a mistake, but it was near ECW's death so it doesn't really bother me. They were grooming Rhyno for the top spot anyways.

[Only The Strong Survive 0]

ECW's Heavyweight title really took a bashing in 2000-

 

Firstly Awesome had it and that was cool but on the ppv's he was at he only defended it against Spike Dudley at GAC and not at all at Living Dangerously (squashed Kid Kash and jobbed the tag belts to Tanaka though for some reason?)

Awesome then defected to WCW and the title jumped from Awesome to Taz(WWF)- Taz promptly lost in a sub ten minute match to HHH on Smackdown during which Tommy Dreamer also took a beating.... Dreamer beat Taz at Cyberslam 2000 and then lost it to Credible at the same event.

Credible held the belt for several months but wasn't a draw and fans were leaving/switching off in droves... then there was the 2 title changes at consecutive PPVs going from Credible to Lynn and then Lynn to Corino....

 

 

Still that pales in comparison to the damage done to the WCW title during the same period but there you go!

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Did Triple H win the ECW title in that match? I don't remember anything about Tazz having the ECW title in WWF at all...

[Youth N Asia 0]

Tazz won the title on a Wed at an ECW house show in Indy and wrestled HHH on Smackdown, it was non title. Tazz went immediatly to ECW's Cyberslam and dropped the belt to Dreamer

[razazteca 0]

Did Steve Corino's career in ECW go from being the guy who pushed Jack Victory's wheel chair to being champion in about a one year period? It seemed like Corino went from a nobody to a somebody right after the angle with Dusty Rhodes and the one with Jerry Lynn where "DIE" was spelled out with his own blood.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Corino debuted in late 98 as a comedy heel getting his ass kicked by Dreamer, in 2000 he spent the year getting his ass kicked by Dreamer, Taz, and Jazz. He didn't start getting badass till early/mid 2000.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Did Steve Corino's career in ECW go from being the guy who pushed Jack Victory's wheel chair to being champion in about a one year period?  It seemed like Corino went from a nobody to a somebody right after the angle with Dusty Rhodes and the one with Jerry Lynn where "DIE" was spelled out with his own blood.

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That's about right.

 

He said in a promo at GAC '01 "I went from being Rhino'a manager, to ending the American Dream, to being the ECW champion, all in one year!"

[snuffbox 0]

It was weird...he went from a meaningless jobber to somewhat-believable (imo) charimatic champ in a year. I think it had something to do with him stealing Barry Windham's old wardrobe and painting his hair bright red during every match.

 

I thought Corino would have made a swell Flair-esque champ if ECW wouldve survived.

[razazteca 0]

I have a question: When did and how long was Corino NWA champion and why wasn't he the champion when TNA started up?

[Jericholic82 0]

I have a question:  When did and how long was Corino NWA champion and why wasn't he the champion when TNA started up?

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I think Dan Sveren was NWA champ when TNA strated right? they stripped him of the title for some bogus reason so they could crown their own champ.