Just hanging out and watching the Network today, so I decided to check out the ECW episode added most recently, the infamous NWA tournament final one. And man, this would have been a much better starting point than the shit they’ve been putting up from 93. You get the famous 911 “kill the clown” angle, Sandman caning Tommy Dreamer in the hard to watch “thank you sir may I have another” angle that put Dreamer over the top as an ECW guy for life, a decent Douglas-Scorpio tournament final, and of course the famous speech where Douglas throws the belt down. And then from there the promotion becomes Extreme Championship Wrestling. Soon after this we’ll start getting Raven and Stevie Richards and all that good stuff as well. Definitely check this one out if you want to see where the real beginning of their hot period started.
