The audience was over in the arena too. You can't watch an early recording of ECW without a Hat Guy sighting or his buddy. I don't know how they did it but they were always center front row. I couldn't even get the same seats in 3rd row at consecutive CZW shows in the same arena lol.
I spent my teenage years obsessed with ecw. Been to more ecw shows than any other promotion and it never ceases to amaze me how quiet the crowd gets when Joel Gertner introduces himself 😂 you could hear a pin drop. No one wants to miss it!
Show Matches 0:00:00 - ECW Holiday Hell intro 0:01:20 - The Blue Boy (with Jasmine St. Claire) vs. Chilly Willy 0:08:47 - Danny Doring and Roadkill (c) vs Da Baldies (Angel and DeVito) (ECW World Tag Team Championship match) 0:20:23 - Balls Mahoney vs Bilvis Wesley 0:36:24 - Joey Styles and Joel Gertner confrontation with Cyrus & Jerry Lynn 0:44:26 - Jerry Lynn vs Spike Dudley 0:58:30 - C. W. Anderson vs Super Crazy 1:12:25 - E. Z. Money vs. Nova 1:23:18 - Hot Commodity (Chris Hamrick, E. Z. Money, and Julio Dinero) vs Christian York, Joey Matthews, and Tommy Dreamer 1:34:24 - The Unholy Alliance (Mikey Whipwreck and Yoshihiro Tajiri) vs The Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke) 2-out-of-3 falls 2:00:03 - Steve Corino (c) (with Jack Victory) vs Justin Credible (with Francine) vs The Sandman (ECW World Championship 3-Way Dance)
@@unprofessionalwrestling That is cool. I wish I was still producing wrestling matches like that but I'm glad you came across the channel. Fingers crossed I'll produce more matches one day again.
Especially coming from the East coast!! Just imagine in Paul would have had the money management skills he has now how big ECW would be probably competing with AEW an WWE right now!! It’s sucks that these Indy guys try an replicate some of these old days and have no audience or very small audiences!! In my honest opinion I believe if Paul would have had a million dollars back then he could have stayed alive and been huge competitors! Shit most of ECW talent did end up doing Jobs in WWE sadly or having short runs in a watered down environment!
These wrestlers put a lot on the line to entertain us, over 20 years later some of the ECW wrestlers are still feeling the pain every morning when they wake up. I appreciate every match they put on for us! There will NEVER be another ECW....well besides CZW, but still....
RESPECT!! You are 100% correct sir! From the beginning ECW set the standard or "BAR" very high. They did what NOBODY else would even try and they did it every single week! Barbed wire, fire, dropped off of balconies, truck trailer, and everything and anything else they could use or utilize. Guys like Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Rhino, RVD, and all of the other amazing wrestlers, they were fearless. They were hell bent on making sure every single fan got their money's worth and had a great time at their shows. Many of those guys took some irreversible and brutal injuries, but they never quit. I have more respect for what they accomplished during those years. No other wrestling company's wrestlers sacrificed more for their fans than ECW's! Legends? They go beyond legendary! They are beyond historical. They are forever etched in as the the Most Innovative, Insane, Wild, and Flat Out the MOST BRUTAL wrestling company ever seen!
That was a funny moment at 19:53 when the ring crew guy gets in the ring and wipes down the ropes. The audience reacted to it, and applauded. I've never seen that before.
Ecw was a pioneer. I faked being sick so my uncle would pick me up from school. He was the one that got me into wrestling. It was the day after the Foley taker hell in a cell, ill never forget it. He said did you ever see ecw? I said no whats that? My gram made me lay on the couch and i watched the ppv with the barbed wire match with foley and funk i think it was. I watched every single 2am broadcast up until the last tnn show. Im from Pittsburgh and never even knew they came here. Sucked i would have went. It wasnt even the violence i fell in love with. The storylines were amazing. And i had a massive crush on francine, and still do lol
My longest memory of ECW was staying the night at my grandparents house and accidentally purchasing a ECW payperview ya i got spanked for it but it was hella worth it
@@sparkshadowtigergaming5602my first ppv order was ecw anarchy rulz 99 and I was hooked ... but I followed ecw since 96 .. watched the weekly shows... I had to wait till I was old enough to order ecw ppvs... my parents were cool letting me watch ecw .. but once my family got direct TV in 99... watch out.
Being there was unbelievable, you felt the emotion, you felt what you were watching was Steve McQueen dying. It was a promotion that gave so much in the early days that you never stopped and realized this could be it. Holiday Hell was amazing seeing it in person. I just wish I could find it on dvd or through other means. Me and my uncle drank 3 40oz at our hotel and went to the show. It was the best of times, it was something to proud of as a fan. I look back at these memories that him and I shared, it was something to behold and hold close to your heart. Memories never fade and legends never die.
Same here. many times I would have to set the VCR to record it on MSG at 1Am...and you were never really certain it was going to come on until it did..
Thank you man. I still remember as a 12 year old watching these on public access television on Friday nights. People didn't believe me it was real. I would record hardcore tv on vhs tapes and take them to school to show people. It was like finding some kind of magic no ody else knew about. I tried to watch the episodes on WWE network but without the original music it is t the same.
Meanwhile, I showed classmates clips of 1997 ECW and was told it was just as fake and gay as the rest of wrestling. Pre-Attitude Era fandom at my school was very sad.
Yeah. My friends who were on the wrestling team and whatnot just laughed and picked on it anyway... Until I completed a triple jump moonsault (floor, to table, to couch) in our senior lounge and received a standing ovation from everyone. Fun times. My friend and I also had a hall monitor perfectly set up for "total elimination" but we smartly opted out at the last moment...
I was there!. And forgot till i got the staples printed black and white 3 page program and then seeing the chairs thrown. Best time of my life 97 through end days. Been to too many shows and never regret it ever since. ECW lives forever!!!!
You point does not go unnoticed...while this particular crowd was not quite what we had seen in the past, you are spot on...ECW Arena events were probably the closest thing in the US to compare to those insanely dedicated soccer / Euro crowds. ..Great analysis..that comparison is rarey made, but true. Thank you for supporting the channel
I member catching ecw at like 3 am on Philly local tv and was amazed at 13 at what I was seeing I hated wwf at that point but ecw brought me back baby wish they were still around miss the ecw days but maybe its good it went away when it did and now we can look back at these amazing shows
Ecdub helped me through a very tough time in my life and reinvigorated my love of wrestling. Thanks to Paul e , Tod Gordon and everyone who got in that ring and gave it EVERYTHING! ECW ECW ECW!!
I think that Vince's ego did not allow him to leave these companies aside like other brands that would have made him richer in the future, he preferred to see them humiliated (excuse me for my bad English but I support myself with a translator) I loved wcw I grew up with her and I What Vince did to him hurt, as well as what he did with the ecw. Now all that remains is to enjoy watching his old videos
If Vince didn't create the image he destroyed it if just one federation would have not sold out to Vince it would be a gold mine now because what he calls wrestling sucks all it takes is one to do it the old way and WWE would lose all it's true wrestling fans
ECW Best Wrestling Company Ever.This was my Childhood.Sandman Mike Awesome Balls Mahoney Axl Rotten Sabu RVD super crazy Steve corino Shane Douglas Bubba ray dudley Dvon Dudley Spike Dudley Rhyno Nova Chris chetti Jack Victory Taijiri Raven Big Sal Roadkill Bam bam bigelow Terry funk Al Snow Tommy Dreamer Justin Credible Hayabusa Tonny Mamaluke Little Guido Francine Jazz Dawn Marie New Jack Steve Richards Blue Meanie cactus Jack Lance Storm Angel Jinsei Shinzaki And few others 🔥🔥🔥
And every thong shot he could get! Love it! Even after 🦏Rhino🦏 pile-drove her off the top rope he got her thong! Oh the Social Justice Warriors would be having a FIT!
OMG THANKYOU FOR THIS GEMS !, as a the former wrestling fan, i really want to see how the og ecw look like, but when that times, there's nothing in the internet (and also am a live in outside of the us too ) ,again thankyou for this upload , it's nice to see the og spike dudley when he's young haha,and also the early tajiri was great as hell, very underated wrestler,idk why vince treated him so badly
@@danevertt3210 after failing to get ECW a new TV deal, he wasn't attending the shows anymore around this time, and Tommy Dreamer was doing the booking. He just wanted it to be over.
@@droozilla8803 I’m just using logic. He presented facts which I’ve heard before except for what I outlined. I figured it was speculation……..if it’s not, ok
Growing up outside of philly, it was a thrill to watch this on ch 48 on saturday nights. My brother and I would BEG our parents to take us to on of the matches. They never did. This era of ECW >> WCW and WWF. And ECW hardcore evolution on n64 was such a great game!
I’ve seen all from 1980-Now what a life of wrestling I’m from NY I’ve been to many Supercards/PPVs I watch all wrestling promotions around the world many memories throughout the decades
Growing up in south jersey ecw flyers being posted up all over the neighborhood for shows. Found ecw. In 95 I was 10 been a die hard since I still watch and collect all the old footage. There will never be anything like this again. Ecw forever !!!!!
@@unprofessionalwrestling No doubt. !!! I got in trouble cause I would try to eat dinner in the living room cause ecw came on. Weird hour like 6 on Chanel 19 And I couldn’t miss it. Lol
@@Timmlayton That's great. We got banned from watching wrestling because we were all beat up all the time and broke furniture so I would have to set the VCR for 1AM, but my dad worked weird hours so he would usually be up watching TV so I would put a piece of black tape over the red recording light so nobody would know I was taping wrestling. ..For a year until they gave up. ..It was really tough to tape RAW, but I did it.
@@unprofessionalwrestling one time I figured out u can record tv with it off when I was younger I would tape ecw. But the 8 hour vhs ran out but the time my dad got up for work. He heard the vhs rewinding itself and was like wtf??? And hit play and found my ecw stash lmao
Taz, sabu, rvd, sandman, tommy fucking dreamer, rhyno, dudley boyZ, like come on. Ecw had some true legends. So good wWe couldnt even compete w them. Had to buy em.
From the beginning ECW set the standard or "BAR" very high. They did what NOBODY else would even try and they did it every single week! Barbed wire, fire, dropped off of balconies, truck trailer, and everything and anything else they could use or utilize. Guys like Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Rhino, RVD, and all of the other amazing wrestlers, they were fearless. They were hell bent on making sure every single fan got their money's worth and had a great time at their shows. Many of those guys took some irreversible and brutal injuries, but they never quit. I have more respect for what they accomplished during those years. No other wrestling company's wrestlers sacrificed more for their fans than ECW's! Legends? They go beyond legendary! They are beyond historical. They are forever etched in as the the Most Innovative, Insane, Wild, and Flat Out the MOST BRUTAL wrestling company ever seen!
A lot of people don't know this, because it's only available in certain regions but well worth tracking down either on VHS or laser disc "Hits and Even Bigger Hits: the life and times of Blue Suede Bilves Wesley. Not only is his historic NEW Dangerous Alliance run included in its entirety but also the meteoric rise of the Bilves Wesley character w/ enterauge in ECW but the rarely talked about WWF/E Papa New Guinea highly successful championship run...highlighting his team with former valet to Simon Diamond MITCH and then his eventually falling out and feuding with MITCH. This all taking place in what existed before WWE NXT/WWE NXT U.K. the WWF LST PawPaw. Who's the fancam guy that is over huge with the TCAP audience...Fahag Reinstein I think...or something....I think he's got some of it? Someone also just told me he makes his money, his real money, off the "shoots" he lists for sale on the dark web....Why would he list them there? And allegedly an entire series with Buck Zumhoffe??? Thankfully I don't have TOR or deep web access. Either way... final days of ECW here....Sadly.
This is awesome man!!!! Thanks for putting this up!!!! 👍 I have looked for years for this show with no luck. See myslef sitting in Congress ( top bleacher, center, right tv side) wearing a black long sleeve shirt with white echo symbol and white hat. 😂 Miss dub man ,miss it alot!!! 😢 😂
@@unprofessionalwrestling use to help with promotions back then. 😆 Even "hung" outback with Rob and some of the boys. Met I.C.P when they were on tour and stopped at the hotel to change with RVD. That was a funny,funny time with him
As a long time fan of ECW who hadn't seen this before, this show was tough to watch. Everyone knew the promotion was on life support at this point, so most everyone just went through the motions. Even the normally molten hot ECW Arena crowd couldn't have cared less about any of it until the main event, which was really weak save for the nasty spot with the chairs & guard rail.
Awesome, I've never seen this "historic" show in its entirety before, truly the end of an era. 2:16:54 - CRAZY F'N moment, what a way to end ECW's run in that venue. 😲😄
And in typical ECW fashion, they went out with a pile of chairs in the ECW Arena. I remember being 10 when they were on TNN. And my mom HATED me watching it. I didn't care, I constantly would watch the VHS tapes we had. Those were some fun times.
Thanks again Sr, this is historical and for free, i'm just on my tough way to get my San Francisco toymakers ECW colection that is even tougher here in México just becauase i became a religious fan of deep ECW becauase of your videos And as Tajiri once said sorry for My shitty English
ECW was a little bit before my time, I was a little kid in its heyday and I grew up on the attitude era and ruthless aggression. I still love going back and watching clips on RUclips, such an amazing promotion. I wonder why they stopped running shows at the arena when they were in business for another year after this.
Because they actually weren't in business for another year after this. The last show they'd ever put on was just three weeks after this one. Paul Heyman started working on Raw in February, and Paul would fold up the ECW tent by early April.
Yep, I was 13 when this took place. I only knew of ECW when I found it when it was on TNN. It was good but I think it was well beyond it's "heyday" at that point.
@@rodzor Understood! I watched it for the first time when I went away to college in 1996. Nine or ten years in age can make a big difference. I'm juuuuust old enough to remember the AWA's weekly TV airing on ESPN and World Class's syndicated show airing in my home market.
@@MikeHL78 Yeah I knew all that, I didn’t pay attention to the date that it took place in December. I remember 01 with the invasion angle. I was primarily a WWF kid. I knew WCW/ECW existed but I never watched them. I’ve just wondered why that was their last show in the arena.
@@rodzor For sure, I always heard ECW was good up till about 98, 99. I only watched the WWF. ECW definitely was cool though, I would have liked to have been old enough to watch it back then.
ECW set the bar for insanity right off the bat, and fans loved it. They were sick of the Hulk Hogan garbage. At least I was. Imagine Hogan in ECW, LMFAO. All JOKES aside, ECW could have gone much further had Paul Heyman not been a complete joke and would have been better with money and Vince McMahon. But while ECW was here it was absolutely the best.
@@toddjennings42369 really dang that sucks I still remember the commercial like it was yesterday honestly that’s what sold me but i was a kid and my father Wasn’t somebody who spoiled his kids but honestly now that i look back at it i thank him for that
Does anyone know what happened to Nova in his match vs EZ Money? It’s clearly his ear. I don’t know if he was hurt by EZ Money or when he landed outside. Thanks for uploading this!
One of the only episodes towards the end I DIDNT catch… Channel 31 Pax network had broadcast their last obligated tv episode with a message from Paul Heyman thanking everyone for their support
Every time i watch ECW it makes me mad i never went to see a show there, it was right in my back yard basically 😢 If only i wasxa couple years older in the 90s
Nearly 23 years later and I still love watching ECW
You and me both, BROTHHERRR
@@unprofessionalwrestlingwhy did they change the arena so much ?
So do I, to this day..but the company went into a tailspin after 2000..😢
No one wanted to step up after the stars left, no kinda urgency😢This is a very sad show😢
Best wrestling company ever
I really miss ECW. The wrestlers and the fans at the shows made it so much fun to watch.
The audience was over in the arena too. You can't watch an early recording of ECW without a Hat Guy sighting or his buddy. I don't know how they did it but they were always center front row. I couldn't even get the same seats in 3rd row at consecutive CZW shows in the same arena lol.
Ok@@randallharter
I spent my teenage years obsessed with ecw. Been to more ecw shows than any other promotion and it never ceases to amaze me how quiet the crowd gets when Joel Gertner introduces himself 😂 you could hear a pin drop. No one wants to miss it!
Show Matches
0:00:00 - ECW Holiday Hell intro
0:01:20 - The Blue Boy (with Jasmine St. Claire) vs. Chilly Willy
0:08:47 - Danny Doring and Roadkill (c) vs Da Baldies (Angel and DeVito) (ECW World Tag Team Championship match)
0:20:23 - Balls Mahoney vs Bilvis Wesley
0:36:24 - Joey Styles and Joel Gertner confrontation with Cyrus & Jerry Lynn
0:44:26 - Jerry Lynn vs Spike Dudley
0:58:30 - C. W. Anderson vs Super Crazy
1:12:25 - E. Z. Money vs. Nova
1:23:18 - Hot Commodity (Chris Hamrick, E. Z. Money, and Julio Dinero) vs Christian York, Joey Matthews, and Tommy Dreamer
1:34:24 - The Unholy Alliance (Mikey Whipwreck and Yoshihiro Tajiri) vs The Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke) 2-out-of-3 falls
2:00:03 - Steve Corino (c) (with Jack Victory) vs Justin Credible (with Francine) vs The Sandman (ECW World Championship 3-Way Dance)
Thank you !!!
@@unprofessionalwrestling no problem
Oddly enough I was watching your channel for the first time yesterday...how cool.
@@unprofessionalwrestling That is cool. I wish I was still producing wrestling matches like that but I'm glad you came across the channel. Fingers crossed I'll produce more matches one day again.
OG ECW will always be the greatest promotion to ever exist in my opinion
Especially coming from the East coast!! Just imagine in Paul would have had the money management skills he has now how big ECW would be probably competing with AEW an WWE right now!! It’s sucks that these Indy guys try an replicate some of these old days and have no audience or very small audiences!! In my honest opinion I believe if Paul would have had a million dollars back then he could have stayed alive and been huge competitors! Shit most of ECW talent did end up doing Jobs in WWE sadly or having short runs in a watered down environment!
@@Jay-iz6lqI enjoyed czw tho especially an the early 2000s
True!
@@Jigaboo1929And definitely!
NWA
These wrestlers put a lot on the line to entertain us, over 20 years later some of the ECW wrestlers are still feeling the pain every morning when they wake up. I appreciate every match they put on for us! There will NEVER be another ECW....well besides CZW, but still....
RESPECT!! You are 100% correct sir! From the beginning ECW set the standard or "BAR" very high. They did what NOBODY else would even try and they did it every single week! Barbed wire, fire, dropped off of balconies, truck trailer, and everything and anything else they could use or utilize. Guys like Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Rhino, RVD, and all of the other amazing wrestlers, they were fearless. They were hell bent on making sure every single fan got their money's worth and had a great time at their shows. Many of those guys took some irreversible and brutal injuries, but they never quit. I have more respect for what they accomplished during those years. No other wrestling company's wrestlers sacrificed more for their fans than ECW's! Legends? They go beyond legendary! They are beyond historical. They are forever etched in as the the Most Innovative, Insane, Wild, and Flat Out the MOST BRUTAL wrestling company ever seen!
That was a funny moment at 19:53 when the ring crew guy gets in the ring and wipes down the ropes. The audience reacted to it, and applauded. I've never seen that before.
They do that in Japan for njpw and stardom
Ecw was a pioneer. I faked being sick so my uncle would pick me up from school. He was the one that got me into wrestling. It was the day after the Foley taker hell in a cell, ill never forget it. He said did you ever see ecw? I said no whats that? My gram made me lay on the couch and i watched the ppv with the barbed wire match with foley and funk i think it was. I watched every single 2am broadcast up until the last tnn show.
Im from Pittsburgh and never even knew they came here. Sucked i would have went. It wasnt even the violence i fell in love with. The storylines were amazing.
And i had a massive crush on francine, and still do lol
My longest memory of ECW was staying the night at my grandparents house and accidentally purchasing a ECW payperview ya i got spanked for it but it was hella worth it
@@sparkshadowtigergaming5602 😂😂😂
@@sparkshadowtigergaming5602my first ppv order was ecw anarchy rulz 99 and I was hooked ... but I followed ecw since 96 .. watched the weekly shows... I had to wait till I was old enough to order ecw ppvs... my parents were cool letting me watch ecw .. but once my family got direct TV in 99... watch out.
Francine was no joke! That's what i loved about ECW great storylines characters and anyone could beat anyone.
@@sparkshadowtigergaming5602what details can you give us about the spanking? Have you ever had an adult spank you till they nut in their pants?
Being there was unbelievable, you felt the emotion, you felt what you were watching was Steve McQueen dying. It was a promotion that gave so much in the early days that you never stopped and realized this could be it. Holiday Hell was amazing seeing it in person. I just wish I could find it on dvd or through other means. Me and my uncle drank 3 40oz at our hotel and went to the show. It was the best of times, it was something to proud of as a fan. I look back at these memories that him and I shared, it was something to behold and hold close to your heart. Memories never fade and legends never die.
Used to watch ECW on MSG Network in new york. Was like 19 with music blasting people over and ecw on every tv. Good times. Miss those days.
Same here. many times I would have to set the VCR to record it on MSG at 1Am...and you were never really certain it was going to come on until it did..
Same. Recall late night channel flipping and stumbling into ECW and was instantly mesmerized.
If only we could just go back. My heart hurts how bad i wish i could
Thank you man. I still remember as a 12 year old watching these on public access television on Friday nights. People didn't believe me it was real. I would record hardcore tv on vhs tapes and take them to school to show people. It was like finding some kind of magic no ody else knew about. I tried to watch the episodes on WWE network but without the original music it is t the same.
I did the exact same thing!!
Thanks for the support
I used to stay up till 1 am to record this too, my friends at school thought I was lying lol
Meanwhile, I showed classmates clips of 1997 ECW and was told it was just as fake and gay as the rest of wrestling.
Pre-Attitude Era fandom at my school was very sad.
Yeah. My friends who were on the wrestling team and whatnot just laughed and picked on it anyway... Until I completed a triple jump moonsault (floor, to table, to couch) in our senior lounge and received a standing ovation from everyone. Fun times. My friend and I also had a hall monitor perfectly set up for "total elimination" but we smartly opted out at the last moment...
My first ppv was November to remember 98 and said the hell with wcw, and wwf when I saw ecw violence
this was the best of wrestling days. thanks for posting Lou.
My pleasure.
Thanks for supporting the channel
I was there!. And forgot till i got the staples printed black and white 3 page program and then seeing the chairs thrown. Best time of my life 97 through end days. Been to too many shows and never regret it ever since. ECW lives forever!!!!
Rhyno was out of control, man.
The cocaine made everyone immune to pain
That pile driver off the ropes!!!! That was ridiculous!
Piledriving a woman? Disgusting
ECW audience is the closest to a futbol (soccer) ultras that you can find in the States. It was amazing
This is honestly one of the tamest ECW crowds. Go check out some of the shows from 96. They were always crazy as fuck.
You point does not go unnoticed...while this particular crowd was not quite what we had seen in the past, you are spot on...ECW Arena events were probably the closest thing in the US to compare to those insanely dedicated soccer / Euro crowds. ..Great analysis..that comparison is rarey made, but true. Thank you for supporting the channel
That place smelled like urine, body odor, and perfume. It was like being in a heated sardine can. It was special.
Honestly, fair comparison
NYC crowd was pretty wild too
I member catching ecw at like 3 am on Philly local tv and was amazed at 13 at what I was seeing I hated wwf at that point but ecw brought me back baby wish they were still around miss the ecw days but maybe its good it went away when it did and now we can look back at these amazing shows
That piledriver off the ropes looked brutal
probably didn't feel a thing except for poop herself hahaha
6:28 Damn, that ref took it like a boss.
So did Jasmine. 🦏🦏Rhino🦏🦏 gave her a pile-driver off fhe top rope. Brutal but ECW was FAIR GAME.
Ecdub helped me through a very tough time in my life and reinvigorated my love of wrestling. Thanks to Paul e , Tod Gordon and everyone who got in that ring and gave it EVERYTHING! ECW ECW ECW!!
WWE inherited a goldmine of talent from ECW/WCW and they pissed it all away
I think that Vince's ego did not allow him to leave these companies aside like other brands that would have made him richer in the future, he preferred to see them humiliated (excuse me for my bad English but I support myself with a translator) I loved wcw I grew up with her and I What Vince did to him hurt, as well as what he did with the ecw. Now all that remains is to enjoy watching his old videos
If Vince didn't create the image he destroyed it if just one federation would have not sold out to Vince it would be a gold mine now because what he calls wrestling sucks all it takes is one to do it the old way and WWE would lose all it's true wrestling fans
ECW WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREATEST DURING THAT TIME
Best league and best crowds. Miss these days so much. Wrestling will never top the late 90s ever again.
ECW Best Wrestling Company Ever.This was my Childhood.Sandman Mike Awesome Balls Mahoney Axl Rotten Sabu RVD super crazy Steve corino Shane Douglas Bubba ray dudley Dvon Dudley Spike Dudley Rhyno Nova Chris chetti Jack Victory Taijiri Raven Big Sal Roadkill Bam bam bigelow Terry funk Al Snow Tommy Dreamer Justin Credible Hayabusa Tonny Mamaluke Little Guido Francine Jazz Dawn Marie New Jack Steve Richards Blue Meanie cactus Jack Lance Storm Angel Jinsei Shinzaki And few others 🔥🔥🔥
I think you forgot a few
@@danevertt3210 yes.Just a few like Jazz Jason Jerry Lynn Chris Candido masato Tanaka Ali Mustafa Doring
I love the pervy ECW camera men that always ensure an upskirt as girls enter the ring 😂
He's a man of culture and a hero
And every thong shot he could get! Love it! Even after 🦏Rhino🦏 pile-drove her off the top rope he got her thong! Oh the Social Justice Warriors would be having a FIT!
Thank you soooo much for posting!!!! Giving back forgotten memories!!!
OMG THANKYOU FOR THIS GEMS !,
as a the former wrestling fan, i really want to see how the og ecw look like, but when that times, there's nothing in the internet (and also am a live in outside of the us too ) ,again thankyou for this upload , it's nice to see the og spike dudley when he's young haha,and also the early tajiri was great as hell, very underated wrestler,idk why vince treated him so badly
ECW will always be my all time favourite promotion. They did it there way and us fans fucking loved it. EC DUB EC DUB EC DUB.
Paul Heyman just wanted this thing called ECW to end around this point. He was waiting patiently to go work for WWE.
Has that been confirmed??
@@danevertt3210 after failing to get ECW a new TV deal, he wasn't attending the shows anymore around this time, and Tommy Dreamer was doing the booking. He just wanted it to be over.
@@reallyretro I have always knew about all of that except for your last sentence and original comment……..that’s just speculation
@@danevertt3210 He's said it himself numerous times. Also he was filming Rollerball, a WWE film
@@droozilla8803 I’m just using logic. He presented facts which I’ve heard before except for what I outlined. I figured it was speculation……..if it’s not, ok
I don’t care who was better but when ECW WWF WCW was all in rotation wrestling was at its best!!!!
Right
Thanks for this OG upload bro..can’t stand watching the old ecw shows on the network without the OG music and all the editing they do..respect
Thanks for uploading this!
Thank you for posting these weekly/ daily. I always come home from working nights and watch a new video uploaded. Great memories of ECW!!
You are welcome. I have had just as much fun putting all of these together. Thanks for all of the support.
ECW! ECW!
Ecw still the best now and always will be
I'm still amazed that was Blue Meanie. He lost all that weight. Amazing. 👏
Growing up outside of philly, it was a thrill to watch this on ch 48 on saturday nights. My brother and I would BEG our parents to take us to on of the matches. They never did. This era of ECW >> WCW and WWF. And ECW hardcore evolution on n64 was such a great game!
That sucks 😕
That game was trash lol
Terrible
I’ve seen all from 1980-Now what a life of wrestling I’m from NY I’ve been to many Supercards/PPVs I watch all wrestling promotions around the world many memories throughout the decades
Growing up in south jersey ecw flyers being posted up all over the neighborhood for shows. Found ecw. In 95 I was 10 been a die hard since I still watch and collect all the old footage. There will never be anything like this again. Ecw forever !!!!!
You said it!! I discovered ECW in '95 as well. What a great time
@@unprofessionalwrestling No doubt. !!! I got in trouble cause I would try to eat dinner in the living room cause ecw came on. Weird hour like 6 on Chanel 19 And I couldn’t miss it. Lol
@@Timmlayton That's great. We got banned from watching wrestling because we were all beat up all the time and broke furniture so I would have to set the VCR for 1AM, but my dad worked weird hours so he would usually be up watching TV so I would put a piece of black tape over the red recording light so nobody would know I was taping wrestling. ..For a year until they gave up. ..It was really tough to tape RAW, but I did it.
@@unprofessionalwrestling one time I figured out u can record tv with it off when I was younger I would tape ecw. But the 8 hour vhs ran out but the time my dad got up for work. He heard the vhs rewinding itself and was like wtf??? And hit play and found my ecw stash lmao
So many stories. I gave my grandpop the barley legal tape And. My dad was like where did u get that .. ?!! He was like Timmy. Punished again. Lol
Taz, sabu, rvd, sandman, tommy fucking dreamer, rhyno, dudley boyZ, like come on.
Ecw had some true legends. So good wWe couldnt even compete w them. Had to buy em.
That Philly crowd as always freaking nuts man!!!
ECW... ECW... ECW!!!!
I forgot how jacked Nova had gotten. There will never be anything like ECW again.
I'd take 2000 ECW over 2023 WWE anyday.
Brilliant upload thank you I never knew this existed. I remember watching November to remember and thinking that was the last one.
I ❤ ECW ECW ECW ECW
ECW is GOD
ECW FOEVER.
God SPIKE was just OVER. He was always "mid card" but those smiles were always genuine.
From the beginning ECW set the standard or "BAR" very high. They did what NOBODY else would even try and they did it every single week! Barbed wire, fire, dropped off of balconies, truck trailer, and everything and anything else they could use or utilize. Guys like Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Rhino, RVD, and all of the other amazing wrestlers, they were fearless. They were hell bent on making sure every single fan got their money's worth and had a great time at their shows. Many of those guys took some irreversible and brutal injuries, but they never quit. I have more respect for what they accomplished during those years. No other wrestling company's wrestlers sacrificed more for their fans than ECW's! Legends? They go beyond legendary! They are beyond historical. They are forever etched in as the the Most Innovative, Insane, Wild, and Flat Out the MOST BRUTAL wrestling company ever seen!
Yeah, and now they're all broke, out of the business, or dead.
E C W 💪 New Jack 4 Life ☯️
A lot of people don't know this, because it's only available in certain regions but well worth tracking down either on VHS or laser disc "Hits and Even Bigger Hits: the life and times of Blue Suede Bilves Wesley. Not only is his historic NEW Dangerous Alliance run included in its entirety but also the meteoric rise of the Bilves Wesley character w/ enterauge in ECW but the rarely talked about WWF/E Papa New Guinea highly successful championship run...highlighting his team with former valet to Simon Diamond MITCH and then his eventually falling out and feuding with MITCH. This all taking place in what existed before WWE NXT/WWE NXT U.K. the WWF LST PawPaw. Who's the fancam guy that is over huge with the TCAP audience...Fahag Reinstein I think...or something....I think he's got some of it? Someone also just told me he makes his money, his real money, off the "shoots" he lists for sale on the dark web....Why would he list them there? And allegedly an entire series with Buck Zumhoffe??? Thankfully I don't have TOR or deep web access. Either way... final days of ECW here....Sadly.
I'm intruiged
Thank you for sharing this classic damn I miss the ol ec dub days thanks again for posting and sharing this classic with us all
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Good old times miss ecw.
I miss ECW The action was amazing
This is awesome man!!!! Thanks for putting this up!!!! 👍 I have looked for years for this show with no luck. See myslef sitting in Congress ( top bleacher, center, right tv side) wearing a black long sleeve shirt with white echo symbol and white hat. 😂 Miss dub man ,miss it alot!!! 😢 😂
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@@unprofessionalwrestling use to help with promotions back then. 😆 Even "hung" outback with Rob and some of the boys. Met I.C.P when they were on tour and stopped at the hotel to change with RVD. That was a funny,funny time with him
Roadkill was awesome
6:12 holy hell
As a long time fan of ECW who hadn't seen this before, this show was tough to watch. Everyone knew the promotion was on life support at this point, so most everyone just went through the motions.
Even the normally molten hot ECW Arena crowd couldn't have cared less about any of it until the main event, which was really weak save for the nasty spot with the chairs & guard rail.
Nobody knew other than heyman and dreamer that ECW was on its last legs.
Awesome!
スティーブコリノ懐かしい😂
ZERO-ONEで活躍してた頃大好きだった🎉
今度コリノの息子と田中将斗選手が対戦するんですよね。
Awesome, I've never seen this "historic" show in its entirety before, truly the end of an era.
2:16:54 - CRAZY F'N moment, what a way to end ECW's run in that venue. 😲😄
the ecw arena crowd was always part of the show. the wrestlers and the arena diehards combined made ecw great.
That was f’n insane
Agreed. I can't believe People tried shooting this show down...
Rhino was a fucking monster bro
ECW was the best !
AHHH the memories!!
Even the guy cleaning the ropes was over
Exactly!
I'm saying to myself "wtf?"
I love how everyone in ECW was over it was awesome
And in typical ECW fashion, they went out with a pile of chairs in the ECW Arena.
I remember being 10 when they were on TNN. And my mom HATED me watching it. I didn't care, I constantly would watch the VHS tapes we had. Those were some fun times.
Thanks again Sr, this is historical and for free, i'm just on my tough way to get my San Francisco toymakers ECW colection that is even tougher here in México just becauase i became a religious fan of deep ECW becauase of your videos
And as Tajiri once said sorry for My shitty English
I'm glad to hear all of that. Thank you for all of the support and for being a part of our wrestling community.
More and more videos to come...
I had a bunch of the toys man
@@stoops187 are You selling? And can You ship to México?
@@hernanmorales1861 sadly they got thrown out brother. Long long time ago. I might have some connects for you… I’ll talk to some of my people
@@stoops187 i will be very gratefull if You do, you can contact me here
ECW was a little bit before my time, I was a little kid in its heyday and I grew up on the attitude era and ruthless aggression. I still love going back and watching clips on RUclips, such an amazing promotion. I wonder why they stopped running shows at the arena when they were in business for another year after this.
Because they actually weren't in business for another year after this. The last show they'd ever put on was just three weeks after this one. Paul Heyman started working on Raw in February, and Paul would fold up the ECW tent by early April.
Yep, I was 13 when this took place. I only knew of ECW when I found it when it was on TNN. It was good but I think it was well beyond it's "heyday" at that point.
@@rodzor Understood! I watched it for the first time when I went away to college in 1996.
Nine or ten years in age can make a big difference. I'm juuuuust old enough to remember the AWA's weekly TV airing on ESPN and World Class's syndicated show airing in my home market.
@@MikeHL78 Yeah I knew all that, I didn’t pay attention to the date that it took
place in December. I remember 01 with the invasion angle. I was primarily a WWF kid. I knew WCW/ECW existed but I never watched them. I’ve just wondered why that was their last show in the arena.
@@rodzor For sure, I always heard ECW was good up till about 98, 99. I only watched the WWF. ECW definitely was cool though, I would have liked to have been old enough to watch it back then.
ECW set the bar for insanity right off the bat, and fans loved it. They were sick of the Hulk Hogan garbage. At least I was. Imagine Hogan in ECW, LMFAO. All JOKES aside, ECW could have gone much further had Paul Heyman not been a complete joke and would have been better with money and Vince McMahon. But while ECW was here it was absolutely the best.
thank you for uploading! ECdub! ECdub!
End of an era
Always dig Chilly Willy coming out to DMX. I always thought if Nee Jack ever switched themes he’d go to DMX.
Bootsy Collins made him a theme.
ECW ECW ECW!
I remember i was a kid when they did the 2006 one night stand event i wanted to watch it so badly
2006 one night stand wasn't original ecw that was after Vince got ecw it was a wwecw event and wasn't as good as OG ecw I remember the ppv
@@toddjennings42369 really dang that sucks I still remember the commercial like it was yesterday honestly that’s what sold me but i was a kid and my father Wasn’t somebody who spoiled his kids but honestly now that i look back at it i thank him for that
Kudos to Jasmine a complete outsider with zero experience to take that bump
The Blue Meanie was in great shape.
you know its legendary when you see Rhyno piledrive 10 people in the and it hasent even been 10 minutes, wich 1 of is a women off the third rope xD
ECW...ECW...ECW...ECW...ECW...ECW...
I remember taking the L to watch live in south Philly
It's so nostalgic
Ecw is class
What a start to begin the show.
Wrestling is nothing like it was back in the day 💯
Love ❤ Joey Styles
Does anyone know what happened to Nova in his match vs EZ Money? It’s clearly his ear. I don’t know if he was hurt by EZ Money or when he landed outside. Thanks for uploading this!
I was wondering the same thing? I was thinking the guy actually connected when he boxed his ears and he blew an ear drum
Damn.. they didn't even finish the first match but still two people got carried out.. 🤣🤣🤣
Thank for the video’s 🎉😎😎🎉
Blue Meanie: "Watch her neck" ... **folds her up and walks away**
@6:06 Second rope piledriver to a female why did I take this stuff for granted back in the day. 😂😂😂
During the ecw power max on cartoon network toonami
Thank YOU
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Joel Gertner was funny when he would insert a joke in between his first and last names. He was the Ron Jeremy of ECW.
One of the only episodes towards the end I DIDNT catch… Channel 31 Pax network had broadcast their last obligated tv episode with a message from Paul Heyman thanking everyone for their support
I miss ecw so much
Every time i watch ECW it makes me mad i never went to see a show there, it was right in my back yard basically 😢 If only i wasxa couple years older in the 90s
It's something unpredictable, but it in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
Nah I need bro to make genuine passionate reviews on anything now. Yutes, roadmans, auntymans, one of them demonic burgers if he’s willing 🔥🔥💪🏾😂😂
I love that Hat guy and his pal always stand up at the same time and shit talk everyone, basically part of the show. Wonder who he was lol
Wish we could the golden voice of Joey styles
Ecw was more than blood and guts but mainstream tv didn't understand it.
the year 2000 it felt like ECW lost its identity a bit. Shame that the last ECW Arena show did not have RVD, Sabu, Axl Rotten, New Jack, Terry Funk.
Agreed