Special K 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2006 Crazy, great angeles. In its heyday, most matches were at least crazy spotfests. This was something different. The first ECW full match I saw was Dreamer versus RVD. I loved the crazy moves they were doing. Hangman's neckbreaker as a transition spot? And RVD's selling was paramount. And then come these two mean fat fucks (The Dudleys) And they're athletic and quick and they destroy them. I was totally wowed by the clips of the chairshot from hell, RVD's crazy senton from the turnbuckle. It just felt fresh from the punch-kick-resthold style. EDIT: It almost feels tame compared to the head-drops, double-moonsaults of today's indies, but RVD's senton onto igelow into the crowd, the chairshot from hell, that was revelatory at the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2006 It still is to me. I'd rather watch Awesome/Tanaka from Heat Wave '98 than ANYTHING out of XPW, and most from CZW. Why? Because the fucking PASSION was always there in ECW. It didn't matter that the two guys in the ring hitting each other with chairs and putting each other through tables had just met for the first time: it was intense. It was built-up so much through word-of-mouth and Joey's commentary and the heat from the fans that what you were watching - be it Balls Mahoney vs. Steve Corino from Living Dangerously '99, or a classic like Tommy Dreamer vs. CW Anderson from Guilty As Charged '01 - was special. EVERYTHING meant something in ECW. EVERYBODY meant something in ECW. There's so few promotions that can say that, but it's extremely true (no pun intended) in ECW's case. I can't think of one full-time ECW wrestler that wasn't, at the very least, respected by the fans. Only one that the fans didn't love, really, was Justin Credible, and that's mostly due to his Kliq affiliation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BUTT 0 Report post Posted June 25, 2006 For those of y'all who want to buy old ECW tapes, you can get basically everything they did here: http://www.rfvideo.com/index.asp?PageActio...CATS&Category=3 That is, IF you're not opposed to giving money to Rob Feinstein. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
