|
|
Post by Magnifico jr. on Jul 2, 2017 0:54:53 GMT -5
What would you guys say your favorite extreme moment and favorite extreme wrestler in the 90s
|
|
|
|
Post by Dark Invader on Jul 3, 2017 5:29:38 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLehcE4eDdIThe Sandman returning to ECW was by far my favorite moment. I was in the arena that night and it was insane. As for my favorite extreme wrestler, Terry Funk.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jet Set Strutter on Jul 3, 2017 16:53:59 GMT -5
I liked the part where Shane Douglas got Tazz to do his dirty work for a fair part of the month. Shane promised him that if he carried out what Shane wanted, then Tazz could have anything for the asking. Tazz shocked Shane by demanding an ECW World title match destroying any chance of Tazz joining up with Shane. The franchise's plan backfired horribly.
|
|
|
|
Post by Magnifico jr. on Jul 3, 2017 21:07:01 GMT -5
What about your guys favorite wrestler
|
|
|
|
Post by Magnifico jr. on Jul 5, 2017 1:03:34 GMT -5
If I had to say who my favorite extreme wrestler is I would have to say it's Tommy dreamer
|
|
|
|
Post by Jet Set Strutter on Jul 6, 2017 12:01:15 GMT -5
Tazz is my favorite extreme wrestler. He took no crap off no one.
|
|
|
|
Post by Dark Invader on Jul 7, 2017 1:06:54 GMT -5
It was really hard for me to pick a favorite extreme wrestler. I went to the better part of 20 or so live ECW shows and watched every single weekend broadcast and ppv. It helped living in New Jersey, I was a short train ride away from the ECW Arena on Swanson St. in South Philly. I loved watching RVD live. If you've only seen him perform in his prime on TV and not live, you missed out. I loved the way the Dudleys could get so much heat with the crowd. Even a smart ECW crowd would want to kill Bubba. New Jack, good lord, anything could happen if New Jack was booked for the show. I seen him dive twice and it was insane. I love ECW. Still re-watch it quite often.
|
|
|
|
Post by Lazer on Jul 9, 2017 17:17:20 GMT -5
RVD and Sabu were my favorites for in ring, but as a character it had to be Raven, Nevermore!
|
|
|
|
Post by Skullgore on Jul 9, 2017 21:46:24 GMT -5
I've never been a big fan of garbage matches/hardcore "wrestling," so quite frankly my favorite extreme moment is when all these promotions close shop. At any point in ECW, there'd be one or two solid wrestling matches without a bunch of the gimmickery, but it was vastly outweighed by a bunch of trash. FMW in Japan was a bit more tolerable, especially the latter years when Onita was no longer in control and eventually left. I remember enjoying Heatwave '98 for the inclusion of Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki, and Tanaka vs. Awesome. 13-year old me was probably all about the savagery of it all, but I can't stand to watch Masato Tanaka take all those chairshots to the head now.
I certainly do appreciate ECW giving a stage to some of the best actual wrestlers at a time where neither WWF nor WCW would have given them much of a shot. I went to a few ECW shows in my day and they certainly had a unique atmosphere, a fan fervor that is rarely duplicated. I'm not sure that's the worst thing, though. I've matured to the point that I can't see past the human toll, that I don't want to see guys actually brutalize each other in an industry where the combat is supposed to be simulated. Take that Heatwave '98 card. Out the 22 wrestlers who were on that card, seven are dead, all before age 50. Five of them either died as a result - either directly or indirectly - of substance abuse issues or suicide. Chris Candido could have easily been the sixth, but he died even more tragically to know if he could have ever truly overcome those demons. The remaining one - Hayabusa - was paralyzed on a routine spot he had done hundreds of times before, as opposed to the dozens of times where he did something that looked like it should have killed him. He died alone, unable to walk without the use of crutches, and his body laid undiscovered for four days.
Sure, those guys made their own choices, but many of them were using drugs to self-medicate. That's a problem in ALL of pro-wrestling that even the safest wrestlers are prone to because of the physical toll is takes on your body. There's no need to increase the danger tenfold. Especially these days where this stuff has become so toxic that the most famous death match tournament in the US has been relegated to be run out of the promoter's backyard for a crowd of 100? 200? Not any more than that. I can't sit here and glorify a promotion like ECW where the locker room culture was such that guys were doing all sorts of drugs in plain view of others. Yeah, I stayed up all those late Friday nights (technically Saturday mornings) to catch ECW on the local Spanish channel for something. There had to be something there back then I enjoyed enough as a teenager tto have watched most of the PPVs and gone to a few shows myself. In 2017, in the present, I feel completely disconnected to whatever emotions I experienced with the memories of those events, though. If your recollection isn't at the very least bittersweet, then I'm feel bad for you. I feel even worse for the guys who made a living participating in such human carnage for vultures like us, creatures compelled by our primal thirst for bloodshed, that were emboldened to do such a thing in the first place. My favorite "extreme wrestling" moment? When the familiar chants of "E-C-Dub" that accompany every truly perilous moment in pro-wrestling to this very day finally die out, replaced instead by absolute silence. Will such a moment ever happen in my lifetime? I'm not betting on it.
Oh, and like, "Blast you, He-Beast the Barbarian! One day your power will be mine!" Phew, wouldn't want to do anything completely out of character here.
|
|
