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The thing I notice about ECW now is just how highly edited it was to make it work. If it weren't clipped it would have come off like a total shit show, and a lot of the times it came off that way anyway. I cannot remember ever ordering an ECW PPV that was actually fulfilling except Heatwave 98 and Anarchy Rules 99. ECW for me was all hype. I grew up with a kid who had a brother who worked indies and he worked some ECW shows as a job guy. The kid hyped ECW to me as this brutal style with barbed wire bats and the like. That is was gave me this impression that it was "better" than WWF or WCW. Going back when I watch old ECW I really can't stand it, it's quite obnoxious tbh.
When I got into hardcore wrestling I was probably like 11/12 years old and I stuck with it for maybe 4 or 5 years. I got the classic BJPW and FMW tapes with some of the first big time death matches. And the thing that always stuck out to me was the lack of drama. One there was no commentary or Japanese commentary so there was no story being told to me. It's just brutal spot long break and setup for the next one, and usually there was a botch or two in there.
I do wish though that Heyman would've gotten Mr. Pogo to do a program with New Jack though.
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