The ECW (re)watch thread

Electric Grave

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Episode 21 here we go!!! There is light at the end of the tunnel, it was still fun to watch the early episodes, get a sense of history and evolution.

Hitman and Rockin Rebel did their job, even beautiful blonde Bobby or whatever his name is, lol.
 
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Just got a network trial to check this out. Amazing how good Paul E was right from the start.

So weird to see sandman in wrestling tights, lol. He even jumped over the top rope! Remarkable.

You know it's top-tier commentating when you hear a move referred to as a "reverse martial arts kick" :p
 
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Not going to lie, I'm getting behind fast. And maybe since the thread is losing (lost?) steam, how about we scale back the episodes to one or two a week? It's much slower, but where are we going?
 
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I am also behind.

2 a week seems fine, I'll do that next time. Maybe pick it back up when we start getting into the Extreme era.
 
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I'm ahead, it gets easier with Joey calling it.
 
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I'm behind too. Pauli Dangerously just started commentating so things are heating up! I'll catch up, it's just gonna take some time.
 
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I am putting this on hiatus for at least a week, perhaps two, to allow everyone (including myself) a chance to catch up. We will decide about the new pacing whenever I start it back up.

NJPW BOSJ really ate up all my eee cee dubya time.
 
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That's cool, we don't want it to be a chore.

Too much goodness ahead. I like watching ECW grow from a very basic, often laughable promotion to the legendary company we can't forget. Even edited, I'll remember who came out to what and other shit.
 
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I'll never forget my level of disappointment when I found that they had replaced Enter Sandman with bullshit stock music during Sandman's epic One Night Stand entrance on the DVD.
 
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I'm glad I have a VHS copy and MP4 of that original broadcast
 
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Someone named Mabel Mania loaded a bunch of VHS stuff on YouTube. Watching ECW Natural Born Killaz 1996 atm.
 
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I saw ECW live back in the late 90's at the Hara Arena in Dayton OH. One of the most memorable things I ever did in my high school years. I still remember standing in line to get in. Everyone brought weapons to throw in the ring. This one idiot brought a table saw blade and it was confiscated and the bouncer lectured a bunch of stoned teenagers for at least 10 minutes before the line moved again.

I can't remember what the show was called. I was re-watching these a few months back when I got a WWE trial for a month but couldn't locate it.

It's the episode where New Jack back flips off the entrance into the arena.

I really need to catch up on the entire ECW saga as I lost interest later when I was busy partying. Still the best wrestling show ever. ECW really knew what the fans wanted, and gave it to them and more.

I tried to start getting into the new wrestling, but it just seems so bad now and makes me want the ECW and WCW/NWO days back.
 
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