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| Weather wise, this weekend sucked. It just kept raining, and raining…and raining. My friends that I usually hang out with on weekends were either working or gone for the weekend, so I was bored as hell until my friend Joe called. I was kind of surprised because he was my cousin’s best friend, and I didn’t really know him to well, although he was pretty cool when I hung out with him. Then my cousin picked up the phone and told me to come over his house. They liked wrestling and they knew I did too, so they invited me over. When I got there, they invited 3 other kids as well. We all brought the wrestling tapes we had, and I brought over the 2 ECW DVDs that I own, Deep Impact and Barely Legal. My friend already had Path of Destruction and Extreme Evolution. So we got all the essentials: 2 bottles of soda, popcorn, microwave burritos (a must!!), and we ordered some pizza. So we were all set for the day… |
Deep Impact DVD |
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other kids that my cousin Jack brought wanted to watch some of the WWF
PPVs that they taped, along with Jack himself. Of course I objected, and
wanted to watch the ECW DVDs and tapes I brought over. Joe wanted to watch
them as well. After about 15 minutes of arguing, we agreed to watch Path
Of Destruction first, then the recent Judgement Day PPV. These kids had
no idea what they were in for because these are casual WWF fans, so they
don’t really know that much about ECW. But when we popped in that DVD,
these kids were amazed. After every match, these kids thought that was
the greatest match ever, until the next match blew them away as well.
What was supposed to be an alternating ECW to WWF tape day turned into an all ECW video day. For 8 hours straight (hey, I have a life…I just had nothing to do at home..) we watched all the ECW DVDs and then after that we watched the Heatwave 98 video the kid Joe had. I haven’t seen that tape in such a long time and, to tell you the truth, was awestruck by some of the stuff they did as well. My favorites on the tape were the Jerry Lynn vs. Justin Credible and Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka matches. Those were just great matches to watch, and those 3 kids couldn’t believe that they were missing out on this. They realized some of the people in the tapes now on WWF TV like Taz, Raven, Jerry Lynn, Justin Credible, Perry Saturn, Spike Dudley, Chris Jericho, Tajiri, Dean Malenko, Eddy Guerrero, etc. They thought most of these guys were jobbers because of the way WWF is mishandling them, but after seeing the tapes and DVDs they realize how awesome all these guys really are. And sadly, they also asked if ECW was on T.V. Well, me and Joe had to break it to them that ECW was no longer in existence, and they were kind of saddened by this. But, they were telling me that they want to get as many ECW tapes as they could. |
The List goes on and on! |
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about 10 hours of watching tapes, my dad finally came in (the whole time
he was talking to my aunt and uncle…damn, I still can’t believe how they
wasted 10 hours) and told me that he was ready to go home. My eyes were
red and hurt like hell, my stomach was in pain from the burrito and pizza
intake (and man I was feeling those burritos last night….WHOO!), and my
legs felt all cramped from sitting in that position. But I didn’t want
to leave. I still wanted to watch more tapes with those guys and spread
the word of ECW, but I knew that it was probably best if I went home.
On the way home, I was thinking to myself, this is what ECW is about with the fans. This was one of the reasons why it went from underground to mainstream. Just a bunch of fans trading tapes and showing off how great ECW was compared to the crap WWF and WCW were feeding us. And in the end, I felt good. I felt good that even though ECW is dead, I had made some new fans of ECW, and that’s the way things should be done. And I would urge any one of you reading this. If you have friends that aren’t into wrestling, or don’t know what ECW is (And yes, there are people like that out there as I fund out firsthand), then show them an ECW tape or DVD, show them the reason you love wrestling, and keep the dream of ECW alive. |
Blowing kids away.... |