How ECW Changed Wrestling Forever and Then Disappeared

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In this pro wrestling documentary, we will discover the key components in the success of ECW in the early 1990s. From the early days of Tri-State Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance under Joel Goodhart and Todd Gordon, through the early success under the booking of Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert. We will see how a young Paul Heyman would rise through the ranks in WCW before taking over Eastern Championship Wrestling and turning it extreme. We will discover the key components in the failure of ECW in the late 1990s and early 2000s. From the final ECW ppvs with Barely Legal, Heatwave and Guilty As Charged, through the success of WWE ECW One Night Stand. We will see how a veteran Paul Heyman would rise through the ranks in WWE before taking over WWF Raw in 2001 as part of the WCW and ECW invasion. We will discover the key components of ECW that inspired so many other wrestling companies in the late 1990s and early 2000s up until the modern day. From the hardcore matches of Combat Zone Wrestling, GCW at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, through the success of the WWE Hardcore championship. We will see how a veteran Paul Heyman would change his persona once again to allign himself with the Big Show, Cesaro, Brock Lesnar, CM Punk, Curtis Axel and Roman Reigns.
With appearances from Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Terry Funk and Jimmy Snuka, Edge and Lita, Dawn Marie, Taz, Vince McMahon, Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Terry Funk, Mick Foley, Joey Styles, Raven and John Cena. Nick Gage, Test, 2 Cold Scorpio and The Undertaker, as well as a host of other hardcore pro wrestlers who took ECW from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia all the way to WWE Wrestlemania.
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[@factory3da]

Out of your 3 ECW documentaries, is this one the definitive doc? I’m not sure of the viewing order. Thanks!

[@WrestlePod]

Yes! Sorry for the confusion. This is all 3 ECW documentaries in one video. Hope you enjoy

[@factory3da]

@@WrestlePod Thank you for the clarification. I appreciate it. Happy New Year!

[@arrisbaldwin6498]

​@@WrestlePod Salute to your platform and documentary who would've thought Paul Heyman is now WWE Hall of Fame class of 2024

[@pauliewalnuts829]

ECW is like Sex Pistols. ECW wasn't around long but they changed the industry and were very influential. You still hear ECW chants today. Sex Pistols put out one album and they were gone but were very influential.

[@Prophecy_85]

Imagine signing up to do the training and New Jack is your first instructor.

[@AntonioScott-ic4uf]

After your 1st tryout, you'll feel almost dead!

[@user-sb7hk9qd4i]

You should do a documentary on the entire history of pro wrestling

[@WrestlePod]

I’ve got a 9 hour history of the 1990s coming up very soon!

[@hensonforgue4775]

That’s a great request

[@TheAustinTalbert]

@@WrestlePodonly the 90’s and it’s 9 hours😳

[@shawnbarron2455]

It was really cool to hear Joey Styles speak with his real voice, his announcing voices really tones down his Italian from northeast accent.

[@knightstalker1987]

*Please bring back our HARDCORE CHAMPIONCHIP MATCH..😭😭😭*

[@WrestlePod]

Who would you like as hardcore champion

[@CaptHowdy-ym8px]

Vince bought ECW just like he bought out the wrestling territories because they were a (although small compared to WCW and the WWF(E)) popular alternative promotion that was big enough to hold a sizeable population size of fans while also being another promotion that wrestlers could go to work for instead of the WWF(E) aside from WCW. Which Vince just has to own his bigger competition that has any library he can make a penny on from nostalgic fans. Also ECW (and Paul Heyman) being friendly enough with the WWF(E) to make a deal to filter in wrestlers who already made a small name for themselves with fans while having wrestlers who needed a start over to go over and remake themselves into a new character that had a chance to be utilized by the WWF(E) later if the makeover panned out. It was also noticeable that (most but not all) wrestlers going from ECW to the WWF(E) were treated a bit better (by other wrestlers and by the company) than those who came straight from WCW.

[@ovcody123]

thank you! I enjoyed the video and your soothing voice.

[@WrestlePod]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@arrisbaldwin6498]

Before GCW, XPW, and CZW. ECW was the revolutionary of Extreme and Attitude before Attitude Era 🔥🔥🔥

[@bloodlustvid2503]

lol you do know that “extreme” matches happened in Puerto Rico, Japan and in Memphis right?

[@deoxyshd681]

@@bloodlustvid2503yes gatekeeper

[@jamstarent21]

Im happy to say I've been to the ECW arena. It's a great experience

[@meztizo_americano86]

How much were tickets

[@ReinEngel]

No bullshit, facts and quotes, no wacky gimmicks, no "I'd rather lick a goat's ass than watch this" interruptions... it's perfect. Thank you.

[@ryblack5032]

The Good Old Days when wrestling was Entertaining and Amazing

[@ethanellis2896]

My God... a young Paul heyman with a head filled with hair 9:53

[@Brando-Lee3725]

YES !!!! Thank you for this in advance . If not for ECW I would have gave up on what was my passion in life since 85 . I bought every mag studied every book on wrestling out there as a kid ! I was a 10 year old inspiring wrestling historian lol . Then wrestling turned to shit . But thank God when i was 15 or 16 I saw stuff in a mag on ECW . So I bought two 6 hour tapes and was hooked ! 94 -95ish stuff like Sandman being blinded and Sabu (blew my mind) vs Cactus Jack , Public Enemy and the whole cast I was introduced to made me a fan for life buying everything I could find on them !!!!

[@danielknipe443]

3 hours ECW video? You absolute beauty - this needs a double bill with Forever Hardcore

[@DrMurdercock]

PLEASE do like a 2-3 hour history on wrestling. From the get go. There just isn't a really good, well done one from someone who loves it, that I have found anyway. You do good work. ANd you accent, to me, being American, is interesting and relaxing.

[@markfinch6794]

It does dip a bit in the middle where the subject of ECW going out of business is brushed over in 10 minutes . Paul Heyman basically abandoned the ECW guys when he appeared on Raw , when the ECW talent though he was still running the company . ECW is great to watch but as Bischoff says it was watched by minimal numbers late night on stations nobody could get , ECW could never be mainstream as sponsors would not back it , I wish it was still around to allow other talents time to shine but it was always going to be a temporary thing

[@LarryThomas-bl2gg]

I enjoyed ECW even know I've been a WWE guy all my life. The only WCW wrestler I ever enjoyed was Sting. But I must agree with you when it comes to your statement about ECW. I totally agree with you

[@TheGillenium]

I recorded Heatwave 98 on VHS. Unfortunately I have no clue where it is now lol. A top 3 PPV of all time for sure, I use to watch it once a week. The matches were all amazing and the Sandman’s team entrance in the main event was sooo fire! I can’t find any footage of that PPV nowadays.

[@WrestlePod]

You have to try and hunt that VHs down!

[@TheGillenium]

@@WrestlePod sadly it’s never going to be found. I don’t live in the same house and I tried to find it way back before it moved to no avail. Some lucky kid hopefully will stumble upon it in a junk pile someday 😂

[@BananaPeaEater]

your videos are good but audio needs to be better balanced

[@Tootbook]

For real, he just started whispering an hour in, idk why.

[@adrianreece214]

Needed smth to watch while I ate knew who to come to with the heat. Never fails 🔥

[@WrestlePod]

How was your food?

[@adrianreece214]

@@WrestlePod The food was awesome man, Thanks for asking! Still enjoying this sick video though! Keep up the amazing work brother 👍🔥

[@WrestlePod]

Good food and a KZbin video, classic combo!

[@whatscraccintvwithjmilitant]

The Eastern Championship wasn't a world title in 92 it was just a Regional title and Paul Heyman and the Original Midnight Express was in the AWA prior to go to the NWA/JCP

[@Brando-Lee3725]

Man , I really wish I still had all those 94-96 hardcore TV shows on tape . But unfortunately the dumbass in the apartment below me had rigged up lights himself for his snakes and caught our building on fire ! So I lost tons of wrestling tapes , autographs by SAbu , Sandman , Rey , Konnan , Psychosis , Spike , Crowbar etc etc.....But those ECW tapes you cant find anymore unless the music is changed up and even then its not the same as seeing all the packages and clips of other shows . Hell , even the commercials I would sit through again to have those tapes back !

[@jamstarent21]

I would try soo hard to stay up late night til 3am when ecw aired.

[@orllyfools14X8]

BWO Japan was such a sick line up

[@coogieman4659]

ECW really for ever

[@ellisdtrails420]

@24:00 NWA*

[@zitofan4life]

Yeah I definitely would have wanted to be trained by New Jack😂

[@thegadflygang5381]

Screw that I know New Jack is a psycho but that is reason alone why if he tried to take advantage of you don't display weakness Don't know how big he is but he obviously isn't a fighter, hopefully a proper 1 3 6 combo could lay him out cold Otherwise it is all over

[@Tcup1982]

Hell yea

[@neverangel24officialytchan87]

I would too.

[@jessebunnell6442]

ECW was never a promotion... it was a beautiful cult! Changed the business and is missed every day!

[@WrestlePod]

Truth!

[@NLaBar]

Damn… check out young Taz in the middle of that thumbnail … looks a lot like MJF! weird af

[@WrestlePod]

lol strong moustache

[@jamesfreeman3384]

I’m enjoying this video, why you whispering though bro 😂

[@whoopty54]

Man imagine if artbarr would have lived long enough to be with Eddie in ecw

[@LarryThomas-bl2gg]

Shane Douglas is so UNDERRATED anyone agree.?

[@serbonkers4130]

AEW is the ECW of this new generation. Tony Khan being its Paul Heyman. AE Dubya

[@WrestlePod]

Big fan?

[@deoxyshd681]

lol what ?

[@meztizo_americano86]

Paul E may be a shyster but Vince had him by the family jewels. He knew Paul couldn't resist money

[@mbp7060]

Paul E. caught lightening in a bottle.

[@WrestlePod]

Never replicated

[@HysjMysj]

40:52 holy fuck, Paul sounds like MJF here

[@jamesgentry13]

You forgot to mention RVD lost both ECW and WWE titles due to him and Sabu being pulled over for Marijuana. Sabu got suspended RVDs pubishment was kosing the belts and his push

[@Estolcles]

Good lord, 5 minutes in, and the compression of facts had made them everything but correct.....

[@Spaghettineck]

Who’s the girl in the thumbnail all the way to the right ?

[@WrestlePod]

Did you ever find her?

[@TheGillenium]

Beulah McGillicuty

[@zukevail478]

You need a new mic bro

[@thehashtagtrashbag]

Im pretty sure even the most casual wrestling fan knows about Lex and Elizabeth being in a relationship at the time of her death

[@cenawarriorprincess2698]

unfortunately my 1st group home Saratoga when I moved there in 97 they were against me watching wrestling be ECW, WCW or @WWE aka WWF until 02 when I moved to Palmer so I never saw most of 90's wresting😭 as they were also liked controlling my music like even though I am a Eminem fan to this day they would confiscated his CD's as they were a bunch of religious nuts and the only thing I could watched was Touched by an Angel but when I would go to high school the other students would keep me updated and informed like you are doing right now so thanks again and Merry Christmas and happy New Year's 2024 to you and your family and everybody else as well thanks again

[@BretzWashington-c1f]

🔥 ECW 🔥 ECW 🚒 ECW 🔥🔥🚒 what you know about that

[@JohnMacintyre-cl5nu]

1:03:15 WATCH TAZZ DO THE OLD HARD CAMERA FLEX AN TITTY BOUNCE!! EXCEPT!" YOUR WEARING A SUIT TAZ"" LMAO *GBYAA!!!!!!!!!!!!*

[@YY-bl1is]

ECW FOEVR！

[@HateDisease]

i'm starting a new wrestling organization named 'Slee Z W', who wants to join?

[@exitwound3931]

There's a pretty good percentage of this video where it sounds like your mom told you to go to bed cause it's a school night, and you had to keep your voice down really low and read the script under your covers.

[@jesuusmd6031]

Exactly what I thought, it ended up good though

[@sethputnamsghost]

Death match Fuks- Jim Cornette 😂

[@neverangel24officialytchan87]

Meatrider.

[@JohnMacintyre-cl5nu]

1:36:30 JUSTIN CREDIBLE IS EITHER ON SOMETHING OR HE NO CAP! FORGOT HE DOESNT HAVE LONG HAIR! LOL BECAUSE NOT JUST ONCE BUT MULTIPLE TIMES ON HIS ENTENCE HE IS FLICKING HIS HEAD AROUND LIKE YOU WOULD WITH WET LONGISH HAIR GO! SEE!, YOU W;LL 100% SEE IT TOO! BUT EITHER WAY THEIR ENTERTAINING! *GBYAA!!!!!!!!!!!*

[@jeremybayne5895]

And the mass transit incident only had one thing. Paul, he didn't put new Jack on the pay-per-view. It still would i've done whatever it did regardo some goddamn research

[@WrestlePod]

What?

[@TheGillenium]

@@WrestlePodlol exactly

[@goodtim3s394]

0:37 knock off Chyna

[@bloodlustvid2503]

lol how so?, you are stupid

[@johnnyjrkirch4952]

Bad announcer!

[@astuteandy]

Pine Bluff, not Pines Bluff. I was at the last show there and didn't find out until some years later that was the actual last show. 🫡