It's strange how many potentially big matches ECW never booked, or when they finally did, it was too late. RVD vs. Taz should have been huge - the two biggest ECW names of that era. Instead, it happened when everyone knew Taz was leaving, so nobody really cared (similar to the Brock/Goldberg match at Wrestlemania 20.) If I were booking, I probably would've gone with an Awesome vs. Raven feud. Awesome was fantastic during this period, and Raven was coming off a pretty successful WCW run, so it could have been an intriguing pairing.
Remember having this on VHS 📼 in early 2000s great PPV awesome v tanaka steal the show there best match till that point
This Tanaka/Awesome match is my favorite of theirs, and one of my top 3 from all ECW.
It's strange how many potentially big matches ECW never booked, or when they finally did, it was too late. RVD vs. Taz should have been huge - the two biggest ECW names of that era. Instead, it happened when everyone knew Taz was leaving, so nobody really cared (similar to the Brock/Goldberg match at Wrestlemania 20.)
If I were booking, I probably would've gone with an Awesome vs. Raven feud. Awesome was fantastic during this period, and Raven was coming off a pretty successful WCW run, so it could have been an intriguing pairing.