People lie about their qualifications to get where they want to go. In wrestling you just have to look at Jeff Hardy, the ghost punching Dark Order member, Mass Transit, etc.
@@MrNegativecreep07 i think the fact that they filed a lawsuit afterwards shows just how crazy they are and i don't know the details but i think ecw should have gotten money from the whole ordeal for frivlious lawsuit
Honourable mention: Cactus Jack vs. The Sandman in a Texas Deathmatch, at "Double Tables" in December 1994; the match that led to the end of "Bring Your Own Weapons" nights at ECW Arena after Cactus concussed Sandman with a frying pan he didn't realise was cast-iron.
Hell yeah bro ! Goodtimes ! I LOVED ECW back then ! Also Benoit breaking Sabu's neck . Sandman blinded lol ! Brian Lee throwing Dreamer off the eagles nest through three stacked tables . Im pretty sure thats the first time 3 tables stacked were ever used
@@charlesfoster9530 Probably because he's actually a violent psychopath. We are talking about the guy who start shivving his opponent in the middle of the ring during an indie show after all.
Paul Heyman once said years ago, the reason he didn't have another barbed wire match, was the cost of Sabu would go up with each match, and he couldn't afford it.
In NYC, you had to watch it late into the night, sometimes 2 or 3am and my friends would shame me into not staying up to watching a classic match. ECW would air after the NY Rangers replay on the MSG Network.
I came across this promotion one night ..it was super late and on some random channel kjla 33 , I was fkn hooked. Wwf was just not cuttin it after watchin this lol then after ecw stopped comin on it was xpw 😂 holy fk watchn this as a kid 😂😂🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Raven admitted in a documentary that he was trying to be sincerely insincere during that apology. There is also interviews with XPW wrestlers that go into detail about the Heatwave incident on the Wrestling Chatter UA-cam channel.
My first time watching ECW as a kid was November to Remember 1998 that I caught on my cable hotbox. At first I was confused by what I was watching. To me it looked like D-grade-production in-door backyard wrestling. Around the 3rd match, my mood changed to gleeful curiosity-filled enjoyment. By the end I was hooked...and I never looked back.
New Jack and Grimes didn't fall at the same time. New Jack has told the story several times. Grimes was supposed to take the bump but refused to go so New Jack pulled him down which caused Grimes to fall on New Jack's head and brain fluid started coming out of his nose and ears.
@@geebonadore3694 late to the party, but you can find his comment on the scaffold match. New Jack didn't try and kill him. That was the spot they came up with. The crew set up the ring in the wrong spot, so Vick spent time trying to move the ring. New Jack was an old school wrestler who kept up the story till he died.
I was lucky enough to catch a live ECW show back in the mid 90's in Cleveland. I was like 14. The originals were still there. Dudley Boys, RVD, Dreamer, Taz, Sandman....they were all there. I've been to a ton of wrestling events in my life. Even a few WWE PPV's. But the ECW event was and still is my all time favorite
I saw the second to last show at the ECW arena in Philly when I was 14. My dad says bringing me and my brother (who was 10) there was the craziest thing he ever did as a dad
Damn! Cultaholic did their research! When the ECW/XPW brawl happened, there were spots for the ECW hotline during the following shows advertising the details about the incident. That's some obscure referencing right there. Cultaholic jokes run DEEP.
The thing was during the Mass Transit incident is that at one point, New Jack was about to hit Transit in the head with something, Jack “dropped” the foreign object, and as he was picking it up, you can clearly hear Jack ask Transit “You alright?”, to which Mass Transit replied “Yeah.”
I’m incredibly proud that I was able to attend an ECW show and in the aftermath of Balls Mahoney throwing blood-soaked TShirts into the crowd, I unfortunately caught one and was subsequently mauled by the rest of the nearby crowd who decided it would be funny to destroy the guy with the blood soaked t-shirt. Best. Show. Ever.
even worse, vic didn't want to take the bump and was afraid. New jack grabbed him and dove off, pulling him on top of him, he caused the injury 100% to himself
Vic got scared right before and tried to hesitate which is why New Jack busted his skull. That kind of hesitation is 100% unacceptable for a move like that. He had up to the very end to veto it, but he didn’t and instead chose to bitch out at the last moment. New Jack put all of his trust and faith into Vic and Vic let him down and New Jack paid the price. Also after that Vic never once visited New Jack and bragged about it instead.
New Jack didn't go after Grimes for the fall. He actually took responsibility for it because he pulled Grimes off with him when he hesitated. He was pissed because Grimes never so much as asked about him the whole time he was out let alone visit him in the hospital. Grimes was also apparently bragging about taking him out afterward.
Fun fact about Born to be Wired. Terry Funk went into the match as ECW Heavyweight Champ and was supposed to retain and their 2nd ppv was about a week or two away, at which point he was supposed to drop it to Shane Douglas. At the end of the match they got tied up so bad together in the barbed wire that sabu was on top of Funk and the ref did a quick 3 count to end the mess and start untangling them with wire cutters. Only ECW would book a world title match where the best possible outcome is to put the belt on the other guy so you can get both wrestlers out of barbed wire....
I was so into ECW and when it went to TNN it lost something but I still supported it. After it went away I never watched wrestling again. It's not the same with out Joey Styles and the great ECW crowds.
Adam you crack me up man when talking about Raven's apology for the crucifixion, the line about your mom talking about your" little wrestling videos " was perfect, man. perfect writing. I love the sarcasm I love the dickish nature I love the way you poke fun at yourself and I love the true context of it all . Lol. Keep up the good work man .
You forgot about Dreamer getting choke slammed through 3 tables from the eagles nest ! and their match at high incident . not to mention the night Benoit broke Sabu's neck . That looked sick as fuck ! Well.....this is ECW . We could go on for days i guess .
What a quick rise to fame. It's actually mind blowing that a small territorial promotion that mainly performed in a philly bingo hall ended up on national tv in the era of the Monday Night Wars.
@@PatDurkinMusic I know. Paul Heyman and his roster were absolute passion for the business. Because the people felt it. And that’s how they rose so quickly.
@@kidofsteel0362 I was wondering how they could have kept going, but tbh even WCW was only around a couple years longer (88 to 01) and they had Billionaire Ted pumping crazy money into it
@@PatDurkinMusic Yeah they just didn’t have the money to keep it going sadly. WCW though was their own worst enemies. They shot themselves in the foot with their absurd inconsistent booking and the amount of money in those time Warner contracts that people like Goldberg,Sting, Steiner, Nash, Hall and Hogan all had.
Anyone else use to stay up on Friday nights to 2am to watch ecw on MSG? Whoever stayed up and recorded it and brought it to school that Monday was a god...
That Beulah/Alfonso match was difficult to watch, even by the standards of the time. Obscene amount of blood and you could see how they were stiff arming each other all over the place.
Tommy Dreamer tweeted later in the day that he called and talked to Terry and that he is doing fine, and he got a kick out of everyone worrying about him.
When they said any seat was potentially “front row” at an ECW show, they weren’t kidding. The shows were often beyond crazy. RIP Jerome “New Jack” Young. In the world of hardcore wrestlers, he was a class all by himself 🙏🏾🙏🏾😥
@@jo929 It’s entirely possible to be “in a class all by yourself” partly or completely because of some seriously unpleasant (to put it mildly) behavior…so yeah, New Jack was in a class all by himself. I personally don’t know of another wrestler whose background was as horrific as Jerome Young’s. Not even the late Chris Benoit’s, whose infamy flows from a single incident at the literal end of his life. So yeah, New Jack was in a class all by himself…and if there’s such a thing as an afterlife, I sincerely hope that a very troubled man has got the peace that eluded him in this life.
@@tonyjones1560 he seemed to be in a good place when he passed, I followed him on Facebook and he would always engage with any fans that wanted to chat or ask questions. He was recently married and he had been sober for a while. It's sad he didn't get to enjoy it for very long.
I watched Sabu apply crazy glue to his bicep at the Cylinder Of Sin after Born To Be Wired. ECW had a bunch of fans staying at the hotel for a fan weekend with most of the wrestlers. INSANE weekend!!!!
I was lucky enough to have gone to 2 major ECW shows. Anarchy Rulez 99 and November to Remember 2000. There was nothing like it and there never will be again.
Glad Born to Wired made it to #3. I remember when I bought the ECW Deep Impact VHS through Pioneer Entertainment and saw the match for the first time. I then had to go to RF Videos and get my hands on the Heatwave 97 PPV to see what shape Sabu was going to be in. The PPV was around a week later and instead of going and getting stitches or staples and letting it heal up, Sabu superglued the gash shut, taped it up, and went out and had his match.
Sabu! Sabu! Sabu! I agree with most of this but preferred the rottens "bad breed death match", and would have added the dudleys vs balls and axl first flameing table match
The Taipei Death Match is something special. I want to bring that one back, but using Lego since you're not going to get away with the broken glass these days
Oh my love of ECW started when I became a fan of Mick Foley and Hardcore Matches... and due to the Royal Rumble '99 promo showing me clips of Cactus Jack... did a deep dive on the internet... and became a fan. I was even interested in the early days of 'WWECW' because you could tell they were (at the time) letting the mad genius Heyman cook... but it sadly became a pathetic shell of itself the more and more they cracked down on the promotion. LOVED ECW crowds, they weren't afraid to voice their displeasure with a match. The wildest crowds, the loudest crowds, and the most passionate. If you won them over, you HAD dedicated fans. good times.
I was in Revere, Mass, seeing the Mass Transit incident at ringside. Bloodiest, most brutal beatdown ive ever seen. That kid had no business in the ring with actual professionals. Saw him previously on a cable access fake wrestling show with him and his buddies.
Sabu closing himself up with Krazy Glue isn't as weird as you'd think. Pretty sure it was originally developed for combat medics when a wound was survivable but needed closed immediately and there wasn't time to properly bandage it. It's a stop-gap, for sure, but it works.
I don’t think that was its original intended use. However medics in Vietnam used it as you mentioned. If it saves some lives I don’t think anyone will complain.
That first match with New Jack where he threw Vic Grimes the interview with New Jack on dark side of the ring was classic. “I threw the mother fucker and got my revenge” The sound of Vic screaming was fucking insane, he was legit 3 feet away from dying honestly if you watch it.
If you try to look up Own Hart, fall that happened back in May 23, 1999,WWF over the edge PPV in Kansas city on UA-cam, you will find you will find New Jack V.S Vice Grimms figting on the scaffhe and Vic falling and missing 10 table ls that was stacked in the middle of the ring, and he suffered a dislocated ankle that night.
It just showed that people would still watch hangings, burning at the stake and gladiator fights to the death of they could. So far from entertainment it is unreal.
It’s already been proven that as much as we like to act sophisticated and better than ancient Romans and other civilizations we are just as violent and bloodthirsty. We just don’t have an excuse/outlet to demonstrate it as they once did.
In the original match, the guy didn't want to do that bump, pissed new jack off led to them falling off Poor sandman took years to beat raven You are right about able, and raven apologised because it was in some kind of mad religious baptist place. New jack used a surgical scalpel on the kid, and charges were dropped because he offered to train mass transit, which he never did
Cultaholic: A bunch of fans starting throwing chairs into the ring, hitting funk in the back of the head, it was so unsafe even for wrestling fans to do. Me: Jesus where was this at? Cultaholic: The Philadelphia crowd . . . Me: That checks out.
I was at the show in Los Angeles. It was awesome to see ECW in person. I still have the ticket to this day. I also went to an XPW event where I was sitting next to the entrance walkway. It was crazy. New Jack had fallen from above next to me through a stack of tables. He was bleeding all over the floor. I took my ticket and smeared it with his blood. I wish I could find which show this was. It was great!
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It’s so weird to realize ECW’s been gone longer than it existed, and no WWECW doesn’t count.
Never happened and let's never mentioned it.
That 10 year span or whatever it was will be frozen in time forever. There will never be anything like that ever again.
Almost like how the american confederacy only lasted 4 years, but people still fly their flag today.
Less than 7 years, mate. Overall less than 9. The Usos
are on WWE TV longer than ECW was a company
goes without saying
When I was a kid I thought, “wow these guys must really know what they’re doing” now I realize they had no idea wtf they were doing
And that is what fascinates us to this day.
😂😂😂😂
Figured the Mass Transit incident would be featured on this list. What the hell was that kid thinking into the ring with New Jack?!
What the hell was his father thinking helping him with it? No wonder they lost the lawsuit.
People lie about their qualifications to get where they want to go. In wrestling you just have to look at Jeff Hardy, the ghost punching Dark Order member, Mass Transit, etc.
@@MrNegativecreep07 i think the fact that they filed a lawsuit afterwards shows just how crazy they are and i don't know the details but i think ecw should have gotten money from the whole ordeal for frivlious lawsuit
What the hell was Heyman thinking putting him in there? No innocent parties in this case, but it highlights what a sleaze Heyman really is.
What the hell was the kid thinking?
Answer: he wasn't.
Honourable mention: Cactus Jack vs. The Sandman in a Texas Deathmatch, at "Double Tables" in December 1994; the match that led to the end of "Bring Your Own Weapons" nights at ECW Arena after Cactus concussed Sandman with a frying pan he didn't realise was cast-iron.
Hell yeah bro ! Goodtimes ! I LOVED ECW back then ! Also Benoit breaking Sabu's neck . Sandman blinded lol ! Brian Lee throwing Dreamer off the eagles nest through three stacked tables . Im pretty sure thats the first time 3 tables stacked were ever used
And Sandman kept getting up during the 10 count and didn't realize he was supposed to stay down.
In sabus book he said it was his own fault and not Benoit at all.sabu was to do a spot and try to change mid air...but fucked up
@@Brando-Lee3725 that was 94'...ecw were ahead of their time.
@@nuyorican91st i know . still an iconic ecw moment
"both fell off at the same time" no. Jack dragged him off the balcony
Vic didnt wanna do it las minute but it was already planned so he bailed mid way an fucked it all up.
"Jack, I can't do it."
"The fuck you say mothafucka?"
"I can't..."
"Come on bitch, you goin."
@@charlesfoster9530 That's basically what Jack said in his episode of Dark Side of The Ring. Lol!
@@DaCamouflageDon ikr? I always loved watching his shoot interviews. Dude was one of the realest shooters out there.
@@charlesfoster9530 Probably because he's actually a violent psychopath. We are talking about the guy who start shivving his opponent in the middle of the ring during an indie show after all.
Why do I think half the list will have New Jack in it
I stand corrected...almost all Sabu lol. Nice.
@@actuallynotsteve As opposed to what? The choreographed gymnastics that people call "modern wrestling"?
Paul Heyman once said years ago, the reason he didn't have another barbed wire match, was the cost of Sabu would go up with each match, and he couldn't afford it.
Wise choice
You know Sabu really changed things up in America when Terry Funk himself said he’s the most important wrestler of the era.
I'm so glad I got to grow up in the same time ECW existed. Was a staple of my Friday nights.🤘🏼
In NYC, you had to watch it late into the night, sometimes 2 or 3am and my friends would shame me into not staying up to watching a classic match. ECW would air after the NY Rangers replay on the MSG Network.
Saturday night at midnight for me. I was in my prime and stayed home every Saturday night to watch it.
I came across this promotion one night ..it was super late and on some random channel kjla 33 , I was fkn hooked. Wwf was just not cuttin it after watchin this lol then after ecw stopped comin on it was xpw 😂 holy fk watchn this as a kid 😂😂🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Notorious + ecw = New jack
You can find the letters ecw in the name new jack😯
RIP you savage badass New Jack 🤣
Raven admitted in a documentary that he was trying to be sincerely insincere during that apology. There is also interviews with XPW wrestlers that go into detail about the Heatwave incident on the Wrestling Chatter UA-cam channel.
My first time watching ECW as a kid was November to Remember 1998 that I caught on my cable hotbox. At first I was confused by what I was watching. To me it looked like D-grade-production in-door backyard wrestling. Around the 3rd match, my mood changed to gleeful curiosity-filled enjoyment. By the end I was hooked...and I never looked back.
New Jack and Grimes didn't fall at the same time. New Jack has told the story several times. Grimes was supposed to take the bump but refused to go so New Jack pulled him down which caused Grimes to fall on New Jack's head and brain fluid started coming out of his nose and ears.
yes. And we've all heard it several times.
I woulda loved to hear grimes version of the two incidents
@@morrnmanderson7376 apparently the creator of this video didn't.
@@geebonadore3694 late to the party, but you can find his comment on the scaffold match. New Jack didn't try and kill him. That was the spot they came up with. The crew set up the ring in the wrong spot, so Vick spent time trying to move the ring. New Jack was an old school wrestler who kept up the story till he died.
@@deadcell47 oh damn didn't even know New Jack died already
Saying ECW "hasn't aged well" disagree. Their crowds were the most passionate and lit I've ever seen.
Well, I mean..
It’s dead now so it definitely didn’t age well. Emotionally speaking it has though
@@MisterQuasar TRUE that
@@MisterQuasarif Heyman knew how to manage money and if Alfonzo wasn’t helping poach talent they probably had a few more years in them
You forgot to mention that the ending of the Sabu/Sandman match came after a BRUTAL cane shot from Sandman to the face of Sabu.
Just off the top of my head
The Stairway to hell
The Taipei Deathmatch
The infamous scaffold match
That's 3. This is a top 10 so need another 7
Born 2 Be Wired was my intro to ECW at only 8 yrs old. I was left floored and wanting more ECW. Lol
In interviews, New Jack says he wasn’t trying to hurt Vic Grimes in their XPW match. He was trying to un-alive him.
You can say kill on youtube….unlearn that stupid word.
I was lucky enough to catch a live ECW show back in the mid 90's in Cleveland. I was like 14. The originals were still there. Dudley Boys, RVD, Dreamer, Taz, Sandman....they were all there. I've been to a ton of wrestling events in my life. Even a few WWE PPV's. But the ECW event was and still is my all time favorite
I saw the second to last show at the ECW arena in Philly when I was 14. My dad says bringing me and my brother (who was 10) there was the craziest thing he ever did as a dad
@@PatDurkinMusic 😂 I believe it! Those ECW shows were wild. Your dad sounds cool as hell though
@@ChalkInTheLand that’s the OG… we don’t always see eye to eye but he was a real one for that lol
@@PatDurkinMusic For sure
*in my Joey Styles voice* OH MY GOD! That's home depot check bounce joke was pure gold!
I have a feeling New Jack is gonna be on this list a few times...
I'll be real, I'm just here to count how many new jack matches are on the list. 🤣
@@joshuadenine6613 same here
My thoughts exactly
@@joshuadenine6613 New Jack and Sabu
Damn! Cultaholic did their research! When the ECW/XPW brawl happened, there were spots for the ECW hotline during the following shows advertising the details about the incident. That's some obscure referencing right there. Cultaholic jokes run DEEP.
Seriously loving all of these ECW videos y’all have been doing lately!
ECW came and went. That kind of makes it badass.
Raven should never have had to apologize...that angle/scene was beyond badass
Some serious pearl clutching on that one.
You failed to mention the fact in their rematch, New Jack zapped Grimes with a TASER before throwing him off.
yeah
Most people in prison are better human beings than new jack.
Based Jack
That part always sounded like a work to me. These F'N wrestlers ...
"Jack I can't feel my legs!"
The thing was during the Mass Transit incident is that at one point, New Jack was about to hit Transit in the head with something, Jack “dropped” the foreign object, and as he was picking it up, you can clearly hear Jack ask Transit “You alright?”, to which Mass Transit replied “Yeah.”
So many people overlook that. Mass was in on it the whole time and only got whiny about it when he thought he could make some money.
I was at the show- that fn kid should have never been any kind of replacement- he had no experience.
Love it how New Jack starts the list and finishes the list! He was fucking brilliant R.I.P jack. ECW for life......
I was at Heatwave 2000! I'll never forget that moment.
They had a few of these on the DvD Ecw's most violent matches. Good lord, these were BRUTAL
I’m incredibly proud that I was able to attend an ECW show and in the aftermath of Balls Mahoney throwing blood-soaked TShirts into the crowd, I unfortunately caught one and was subsequently mauled by the rest of the nearby crowd who decided it would be funny to destroy the guy with the blood soaked t-shirt. Best. Show. Ever.
So you got beaten up after probably catching hepatitis.. sounds good.
@@stevelowe2647 Don't worry. He was not there, and it didn't happen.
@@princeofcupspoc9073 yeah i think that was pretty much my thought at the time pal.
Enjoy your hepatitis.
The new jack and Vic grimes incident in my opinion, was an accident. So new jack trying to end grimes life is just unacceptable
even worse, vic didn't want to take the bump and was afraid. New jack grabbed him and dove off, pulling him on top of him, he caused the injury 100% to himself
Vic got scared right before and tried to hesitate which is why New Jack busted his skull. That kind of hesitation is 100% unacceptable for a move like that. He had up to the very end to veto it, but he didn’t and instead chose to bitch out at the last moment. New Jack put all of his trust and faith into Vic and Vic let him down and New Jack paid the price. Also after that Vic never once visited New Jack and bragged about it instead.
It's clearly a work you mark.
New Jack didn't go after Grimes for the fall. He actually took responsibility for it because he pulled Grimes off with him when he hesitated. He was pissed because Grimes never so much as asked about him the whole time he was out let alone visit him in the hospital. Grimes was also apparently bragging about taking him out afterward.
Okay that LSD "little spike dudley's" line got me...damn you Adam haha...
Fun fact about Born to be Wired. Terry Funk went into the match as ECW Heavyweight Champ and was supposed to retain and their 2nd ppv was about a week or two away, at which point he was supposed to drop it to Shane Douglas. At the end of the match they got tied up so bad together in the barbed wire that sabu was on top of Funk and the ref did a quick 3 count to end the mess and start untangling them with wire cutters. Only ECW would book a world title match where the best possible outcome is to put the belt on the other guy so you can get both wrestlers out of barbed wire....
I was so into ECW and when it went to TNN it lost something but I still supported it. After it went away I never watched wrestling again. It's not the same with out Joey Styles and the great ECW crowds.
Adam you crack me up man when talking about Raven's apology for the crucifixion, the line about your mom talking about your" little wrestling videos " was perfect, man. perfect writing. I love the sarcasm I love the dickish nature I love the way you poke fun at yourself and I love the true context of it all . Lol. Keep up the good work man .
You forgot about Dreamer getting choke slammed through 3 tables from the eagles nest ! and their match at high incident . not to mention the night Benoit broke Sabu's neck . That looked sick as fuck ! Well.....this is ECW . We could go on for days i guess .
Not too mention when biggelow and taz fell through the ring and the ramp
didn't sabu break his own neck on that one? I can't recall it.
Rvd doing front flips into the crowd
Kurt Angle found the crucifix match so offensive that he decided to rack up 50 DUI charges and swallow 7000 Percocets
What was also odd about the rotten brothers, were that they were billed from Newcastle England 😂😂
It’s because he said Brian Johnson from AC/DC was from Newcastle
What a quick rise to fame. It's actually mind blowing that a small territorial promotion that mainly performed in a philly bingo hall ended up on national tv in the era of the Monday Night Wars.
It’s crazy looking back and realizing it was less than a decade
@@PatDurkinMusic I know. Paul Heyman and his roster were absolute passion for the business. Because the people felt it. And that’s how they rose so quickly.
@@kidofsteel0362 I was wondering how they could have kept going, but tbh even WCW was only around a couple years longer (88 to 01) and they had Billionaire Ted pumping crazy money into it
@@PatDurkinMusic Yeah they just didn’t have the money to keep it going sadly. WCW though was their own worst enemies. They shot themselves in the foot with their absurd inconsistent booking and the amount of money in those time Warner contracts that people like Goldberg,Sting, Steiner, Nash, Hall and Hogan all had.
The New Jack / Mass Transit deal is so infamous, I completely forgot that D-Von Dudley was even in the match.
same. im sure d von was probably in shock or even terror watching on what was happening.
I was there, and forgot! Don't remember him being in it, just the kid being pummeled into oblivion, and bleeding so bad, they had to hospitalized him.
Dude Beulah vs Bill was one of the more hardcore matches, even for ECW!
They say it was one of the most brutal.
All that happened was he bladed too deep it wasnt that bad
really? It was hilarious i couldn't stop laughing
"Ee Sea Dub, Ee Sea Dub, Ee Sea Dub!"
Anyone else use to stay up on Friday nights to 2am to watch ecw on MSG? Whoever stayed up and recorded it and brought it to school that Monday was a god...
It came on at 6pm on Tuesday here in Philly
That Beulah/Alfonso match was difficult to watch, even by the standards of the time. Obscene amount of blood and you could see how they were stiff arming each other all over the place.
Sabu having he’s jaw taped together after he broke it is absolute savagery
Very sad to see and hear that The Hardcore Legend Terry Funk now has Dementia.
Tommy Dreamer tweeted later in the day that he called and talked to Terry and that he is doing fine, and he got a kick out of everyone worrying about him.
When they said any seat was potentially “front row” at an ECW show, they weren’t kidding. The shows were often beyond crazy.
RIP Jerome “New Jack” Young. In the world of hardcore wrestlers, he was a class all by himself 🙏🏾🙏🏾😥
If you consider a class all by himself to be trying to kill people in the ring, yeh your right. Spastic!
@@jo929 It’s entirely possible to be “in a class all by yourself” partly or completely because of some seriously unpleasant (to put it mildly) behavior…so yeah, New Jack was in a class all by himself. I personally don’t know of another wrestler whose background was as horrific as Jerome Young’s. Not even the late Chris Benoit’s, whose infamy flows from a single incident at the literal end of his life.
So yeah, New Jack was in a class all by himself…and if there’s such a thing as an afterlife, I sincerely hope that a very troubled man has got the peace that eluded him in this life.
@@tonyjones1560 he seemed to be in a good place when he passed, I followed him on Facebook and he would always engage with any fans that wanted to chat or ask questions. He was recently married and he had been sober for a while. It's sad he didn't get to enjoy it for very long.
Don't forget the bout where Shane Douglas shook the halo of Pitbull #1 (who suffered a legit broken neck) and it caused a full scale riot.
I watched Sabu apply crazy glue to his bicep at the Cylinder Of Sin after Born To Be Wired. ECW had a bunch of fans staying at the hotel for a fan weekend with most of the wrestlers. INSANE weekend!!!!
*I still have a scar across my eyebrow from being hit with a steel chair by D-Von at the Detroit State Fairgrounds in 1997*
I was lucky enough to have gone to 2 major ECW shows. Anarchy Rulez 99 and November to Remember 2000. There was nothing like it and there never will be again.
woah Adam, The Danbury Fall was because Vic wouldn’t go ans Freefall was Jack trying to legitimately KILL Grimes
Can’t stop binge watching!
Without a doubt, unequivocally, hands down - the most iconic opening in YT history… this has money written ALL over it: “Join us, bitches”! 😂😂😂😂
Anyone from Philadelphia? Remember channel 48 at 10pm on Saturday?
That's right...
Glad Born to Wired made it to #3. I remember when I bought the ECW Deep Impact VHS through Pioneer Entertainment and saw the match for the first time. I then had to go to RF Videos and get my hands on the Heatwave 97 PPV to see what shape Sabu was going to be in. The PPV was around a week later and instead of going and getting stitches or staples and letting it heal up, Sabu superglued the gash shut, taped it up, and went out and had his match.
ECW was so long ago.....I watched the first couple of years on a hand-me-down black and white TV with rabbit ears and a dial.
Sabu! Sabu! Sabu!
I agree with most of this but preferred the rottens "bad breed death match", and would have added the dudleys vs balls and axl first flameing table match
ECW needs to come back but with a diverse wrestling scene and safer while keeping the extreme intact
The Taipei Death Match is something special. I want to bring that one back, but using Lego since you're not going to get away with the broken glass these days
When someone tells me that wrestling is fake, I'll show these matches to them.
I saw most of those at the times that they were broadcast in the 90's. I was one happy camper back then.
ECW was fucking amazing, the realest passion in wrestling there ever was
I was at the New Jack v Grimes match. Was totally insane in person. Legitimately thought they both died.
Oh my love of ECW started when I became a fan of Mick Foley and Hardcore Matches... and due to the Royal Rumble '99 promo showing me clips of Cactus Jack... did a deep dive on the internet... and became a fan.
I was even interested in the early days of 'WWECW' because you could tell they were (at the time) letting the mad genius Heyman cook... but it sadly became a pathetic shell of itself the more and more they cracked down on the promotion.
LOVED ECW crowds, they weren't afraid to voice their displeasure with a match. The wildest crowds, the loudest crowds, and the most passionate. If you won them over, you HAD dedicated fans.
good times.
I was in Revere, Mass, seeing the Mass Transit incident at ringside. Bloodiest, most brutal beatdown ive ever seen. That kid had no business in the ring with actual professionals. Saw him previously on a cable access fake wrestling show with him and his buddies.
You can make separate lists with New Jack and Terry Funk.
New Jack cutting that kid with a scalpel still makes me uncomfortable no matter how many times I see it
The entire ECW was a crazy place so new jack found his heaven there
Sabu closing himself up with Krazy Glue isn't as weird as you'd think. Pretty sure it was originally developed for combat medics when a wound was survivable but needed closed immediately and there wasn't time to properly bandage it. It's a stop-gap, for sure, but it works.
I don’t think that was its original intended use. However medics in Vietnam used it as you mentioned.
If it saves some lives I don’t think anyone will complain.
This video is absolute gold, you are awesome- nice work! Hilarious
Sabo is absolute the most but f@cking insane man ever
That first match with New Jack where he threw Vic Grimes the interview with New Jack on dark side of the ring was classic. “I threw the mother fucker and got my revenge”
The sound of Vic screaming was fucking insane, he was legit 3 feet away from dying honestly if you watch it.
Dude I remember ECW on Friday nights,they would show em right before or just after roller derby! LMAO
ECW was so taboo in the 90s, and everyone loved it!
Rest in pieces New Jack.
Damn 😂
I have NEVER seen as much color as I saw Fonzy get. Maybe Mass Transit but still. It was absolutely brutal.
Great List of great Matches ♥ Sad that beside the CWZ this quality (and blood and gore quantity^^) is rare these days.
If you try to look up Own Hart, fall that happened back in May 23, 1999,WWF over the edge PPV in Kansas city on UA-cam, you will find you will find New Jack V.S Vice Grimms figting on the scaffhe and Vic falling and missing 10 table ls that was stacked in the middle of the ring, and he suffered a dislocated ankle that night.
Crazy to think ecw turns 30 next year
still chanted in arenas to this day. amazing.
It just showed that people would still watch hangings, burning at the stake and gladiator fights to the death of they could. So far from entertainment it is unreal.
It’s already been proven that as much as we like to act sophisticated and better than ancient Romans and other civilizations we are just as violent and bloodthirsty. We just don’t have an excuse/outlet to demonstrate it as they once did.
Maybe I'm making this up, but I thought New Jack tried to kill Grimrs because Grimes didn't check up on Jack while he was recovering in the hospital.
In the original match, the guy didn't want to do that bump, pissed new jack off led to them falling off
Poor sandman took years to beat raven
You are right about able, and raven apologised because it was in some kind of mad religious baptist place.
New jack used a surgical scalpel on the kid, and charges were dropped because he offered to train mass transit, which he never did
Cultaholic: A bunch of fans starting throwing chairs into the ring, hitting funk in the back of the head, it was so unsafe even for wrestling fans to do.
Me: Jesus where was this at?
Cultaholic: The Philadelphia crowd . . .
Me: That checks out.
Didn't even need to watch to know number 1 would be the Mass Transit Incident
Beulah vs Alfonso sounds like such shit on paper, in practice it was freakin' awesome
Tripping balls thinking you're opponent is a lizard is epic 😂
You sound very young. You weren't watching and following on a weekly basic.....OMG....ECW, ECW, ECW....🔥🔥🔥
Definitely called that number and wasn’t what I was hoping for
2:04 the moment New Jack was determind to throw grimes ass past the tables after tasing him.
Interesting choices Adam.
You cannot convince me that New Jack has not murdered someone out of the ring. That dude has serial killer written all over him.
He was a killer before ecw he admits it was his job. It’s a video on here that u can look up that explains it
He was a bounty hunter with multiple justifiable homicides. He talks about it in the Beyond The Mat documentary by Barry Blaustein
I was flipping through channels and I came across this I was like what this is good stuff watched since 1996
New jack had brain damage before he fell off the scaffold
Ecw will always be my favorite brand
I am going to answer the question everyone had in their head when they saw the title of this: yes it is mass transit at 1
Correction, no.10 was new Jack vs the entire baldies group of grimes,devito and angel
I was at the show in Los Angeles. It was awesome to see ECW in person. I still have the ticket to this day.
I also went to an XPW event where I was sitting next to the entrance walkway. It was crazy. New Jack had fallen from above next to me through a stack of tables. He was bleeding all over the floor. I took my ticket and smeared it with his blood. I wish I could find which show this was. It was great!
Sabu was so Amazing for me one of the Greatest Bad ass Boys ever in the Wrestling History.