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Old 09-05-2014, 03:31 AM   #41
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Missasauga Ontario in 2000. Sold out show, drew almost 6000.
That's awesome - how was the card? One of the common comments on the message boards I asked this question to was that 2000 ECW was the obvious nadir, but really like hearing live perspectives, especially since its positive.
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Old 09-05-2014, 06:54 AM   #42
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Card was solid. I believe Rhino beat Kid Kash for the TV belt. Balls and Chilly Willy fought the Baldies all over the arena. RVD fought CW Anderson. I believe Doring and Roadkill fought the FBI for the tag belts. Main event was a triple threat between Corino, Credible and Lynn for the title. Awesome match. Credible pinned both. You could tell the talent wasn't what it was, but fuck they worked their asses off and it was a blast.

The one thing I remember and it was the damndest thing, the Sandman comes out at the end of the show and picks a chick out of the crowd, dumps beer on her and licks her chest. If that chick was 18 I'd be shocked lol. Everyone was cheering but saying "what the fuck, that chick is like 16"
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Old 09-05-2014, 07:02 AM   #43
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One thing that I never understood, but Im guessing it's because half the talent propbably couldn't enter the country, but that was ECW's one and only appearence in Canada and with that roster legit sold out that arena. Canada LOVED ECW and the company could have run some mid level arenas between 5-7 thousand capacity and probably sold out each show. I think it was a missed opportunity on the part of ECW and WCW for that matter. They hardly ran Canada too, but did a show in Toronto and did extremely well. That's the show when Goldberg speared Bret and Bret had that metal sheet under his jersey.
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Old 09-05-2014, 07:50 AM   #44
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Yeh, considering they had BRET HART...it really is shocking just how rarely WCW ran TV or PPV in Canada. Complete idiots, Bret meant so much and they just let it all slip away...

Love hearing about the show though, and to be honest I'm surprised Sandman made it through customs. How was the crowd for Van Dam?
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Old 09-05-2014, 01:25 PM   #45
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Lol his entrance was longer than Taker's Wrestlemania entrance. Crowd went crazy for RVD and ate up all 10 minutes of his entrance.
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Old 09-05-2014, 01:26 PM   #46
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Lol the crowd also went crazy for Balls Mahoney, so take that for what you will
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Want to thank everybody for the feedback - we read a good bit of it on the podcast, and the show is now online to listen to at the following link:

http://squaredcirclegazette.podbean....ckedUpToBe.mp3

It ended up being a really fun show with some good debate on what was and wasn't good about ECW, its true influence, the crowd, Paul Heyman, and a number of the feuds, angles and wrestlers. A fun show, check it out and let us know what you think.
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I know it's kind of a snobby comment to make, but you had to be there at an actual event to "get it". You get completely sucked in, no matter how dumb some of the stuff was. The events were an experience. It definitley hasn't aged well looking back, but neither has stuff that was deemed classic in the WCW/NWA or WWF. It was a moment in time that you just had to be there. I've been to every major promotion events throughout the years and even though it was 2000 ECW when I attended it felt special when I was there.
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No no, I completely agree, being in the time and place (and I was an ECW fan from afar, obviously attending no live shows in person) is the key to all of it. Its why I was especially interested in your live take.

I think we did a good job acknowledging that on the show - at the time there was some frustrations with the audience (and obviously played a part in Foleys great promos), but the flip side of the crowd is that they made ECW unique and special, and when they were on side, as you mentioned with RVD being over like God, they were a total asset.
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