WWE - The Rise And Fall Of ECW (DVD)

In the early 1990's wrestling was in danger of becoming boring with all the old pro's in WCW not wanting to let the next generation step up and show what they could do and the WWF loaded with lame gimmicks, when Paul Heyman took over a small Philadelphia based company known at the time as Eastern Championship wrestling. Heyman could see that wrestling needed to change and started on doing just that. He began bringing in new wrestlers such as the ...
...workers who looked like they would beat you up for looking at you wrong. He also brought in the very tough tag team the Public Enemy and started bringing about a revolution. With athletes such as Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman, Terry Funk, Shane Douglas, The Tazmaniac and Sabu they started putting on some truly great matches and started to get fame they quickly became Extreme Championship Wrestling after Shane Douglas threw away the NWA title. ECW continued ...

kevinomega 06.06.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of WWE - The Rise And Fall Of ECW (DVD)

ECW was the break out company of the 90's. While every other company was sticking to the script of family friendly wrestling matches this new company pushed things to the limit and gathered one hell of a following. This small time Phillie group took things to the extreme and this DVD shows exactly how things changed in the company ont he way to the top and how harsh things can be at the top. Leading to the death of one of the most memorable wrestling ...
...stars the company had such as Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman, The Dudleys and Taz. The thought and comments of Dreamer, The Dudleys, Taz and others give you a real in-depth view of how things were inside the company. Also Paul Heyman - the guy who ran the company is very open about everything to do with the company. The thoughts of Heymans compition - the guys ultimatley put him out of business are also very interesting. The extras have some of the ...

domo25 22.06.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of WWE - The Rise And Fall Of ECW (DVD)

...DVD for me is the WWE and the ECW working together in the mid 1990s. It started at the 1995 King of the Ring, where fans in the WWE arena started to chant ECW! ECW! This is where McMahon took notice and first got ECW on the national stage. Also included in the DVD is other hardcore moments such as Tommy Dreamers amazing caning match with The Sandman, the highly controvesial crucifixion angle involving Raven and the Sandman. The close knit family ...
...2nd in the best selling WWE DVD's. However, there are some disadvantages. 1. Its a WWE production - so we get interviews from WWE employees, such as Dreamer and Taz, but none from real starts such as The Sandman, Raven, Sabu or Shane Douglas 2. Highlights many former WWE wrestlers who did not play a huge part in ECW, such as Stone Cold. He was in the company for barely any time but somehow has a large part on the DVD. There are many advantages ...

trueblue89 31.10.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of WWE - The Rise And Fall Of ECW (DVD)

...of the ECW invasion of WWE back in 1997 just before ECW's first PPV, back then everyone was wondering was why was vinceMcMahon giving precious Airtime to another Promotion to find out you must buy this dvd. This in Total is 6 Hours Long over 2 disks with 7 extra matches,3 extra interviews with Tazz talking about a never been told story when he asked for Paul Heyman's Blessing before debuting with WWE, Chris Jericho on Paul Heyman being a travel Agent ...

ANCHOR4 06.08.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of WWE - The Rise And Fall Of ECW (DVD)