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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 12:29 am |
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Talking about the mid-90s version.
Was it something you liked? Or hated? Did you even get to see it where you were at?
What made it great for you OR what made it something you did not pay attention to.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 01:19 am |
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I loved it because it was so different than what the WWF and WCW were offering during 1994 and 1995. ECW actually made me care about characters in wrestling again. An example would be The Sandman. After the blinding angle, I was such a Sandman mark. I didn't care how good or bad his matches were. I marked out for his character.
Last edited on Wed Oct 17th, 2007 01:20 am by clawmaster
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 01:37 am |
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| Never saw much of it until most of the long-term fans would have considered it past it's peak, but I loved it. I don't think I realized how burned out I was on the WCW and WWF offerings until I saw a viable alternative, which ECW was at the time.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 01:48 am |
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I didn't get ECW till '97; I took a chance and bought "Barely Legal" sight unseen.
To me, it felt a lot like an (forgive me) "old school" promotion, with believable angles and the emphasis on in-ring action. Plus, BLOOD, wihich was forbidden in WWF and WCW at the time.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 05:06 am |
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I didn't get into it until around 1997 as well, and that was because a fellow sailor on my ship in my department had his GF send him ECW tapes of every TV show once a month.
I loved it because WWF and WCW were pretty good as well, but I was a wrestling fan at the time and watched pretty much anything that was called wrestling, whether it be a local San Diego indy fed which was shitty, or Lucha from Mexico.
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beejmi
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 11:19 am |
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They did do alot with very little. A tag team named The Public Enemy (that nobody had heard of), some crazy maniac named Sabu and the development of The Sandman were all really done well.
WCW and the WWF were so bland and the on-the-air ripping of them was very on point. Loved Shane Douglas calling Ric Flair "Dick Flair" - although looking back they were building to a match they could never deliver.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 01:59 pm |
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I stumbled across it in 96 & watched it for about a month or so before Prime Ticket turned into Fox Sports which didn't air ECW. But I still bought all of the PPV's blindly based off the fact that I loved what I had seen when it was on.
Things I liked
1) They used real music
2) They had guys that could wrestle (Douglas, Jericho, Scorpio, Taz, Dr Death etc)
3) It was presented as more than just sport entertainment
4) Blood
5) JT Smith
6) That you could buy tapes of the big shows & fan cams of most of the smaller shows
Things I hated
1) Brawling thru the crowd
2) Spike Dudley
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 03:39 pm |
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speaking of hatred for wWF and WCW, who will ever forget Steve Austin's Eric Bischoff on Monday Nitro impersonations, that shit had me and a lot of guys laughing while watching it on the ship.
At the time, my parents would be taping Nitro, and WWF for me, and sending me the tapes, it was nice doing circles int he middle of the ocean and being able to keep up on wrestling that way.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 04:01 pm |
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Was not available to me until the ECW on TNN period, but..
Things I Liked:
- Tajiri/SuperCrazy/Guido - One match when Tajiri starts slinging chairs and one bounces off a table and shoots into the crowd stands out.
- Tajiri/Mikey/Sinister Minister Program
- Mike Awesome/Masato Tanaka - Brutal Goodness. My kind of matches.
- The Impact Players - I think I am the only person on the planet that likes Justin Credible.
- Steve Corino - I loved seeing Corino tranform from a stooge to the Old-School gimmick. He was perfect in the role and he bled like a pig too.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 04:04 pm |
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Heyman may be the only Jew in history to have no money sense, but he sure could get no talent hacks over with the crowd
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 04:30 pm |
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| another I really enjoed about ECW was how they would bring people in to work a few shows. It made it seem like there roster was a lot deeper than it was & it made ECW seem like the place to be, Well @ least in my teenage mind. Last edited on Wed Oct 17th, 2007 04:31 pm by Franchise
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 10:20 pm |
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Stipulations were followed. That was a plus.
Enough big names stopping by made it seem like it was "on the map" despite trying to make it work with (relatively obscure) guys like Stevie Richards , The Blue Meanie, The Public Enemy, The Pitbulls and The Sandman.
Blood ~ WWF and WCW were watered down boring products at this time
Catered to the fan that read Meltzer's sheet
The whole thing had an edge to it. Music videos, women treated as "property", foul language.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17th, 2007 11:06 pm |
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mike3775 wrote: Heyman may be the only Jew in history to have no money sense, but he sure could get no talent hacks over with the crowd
only Jew on the planet that couldn't balance a bank book.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18th, 2007 11:51 pm |
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I enjoyed it at the time, because I got to see so little of it. Once it became a regular feature on cable, I didn't get into it as much.
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