WWE Star Defeats WCW Star For The ECW Championship | Behind The Match

Mike Awesome was years ahead of his time. While there were a fair amount of impressive heavyweight wrestlers on the scene twenty years ago, few combined jaw-dropping agility with raw power, along with a penchant for arena-encompassing, furniture-destroying brawls, the way the 290-pound Awesome did. Everything about the man felt evolutionary - except for the mullet, but that was the charm of Awesome: were you going to tell this living, breathing killing machine that he needed a haircut?
That's why it's not at all surprising that in September of 1999, ECW (weeks after gaining national TV clearance on TNN) put its World championship on the seemingly-peerless powerhouse, positioning him as a final boss of sorts. Seven months later, Awesome exited ECW under an intense cloud of controversy, and the manner in which he dropped the belt was just as head-spinning - because it involved both WCW and the WWF.
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