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10 Greatest Things About ECW’s Final Year - The Return Of Rob Van Dam! Cyrus The Virus! Rhino's Ascension! The Impact Players EXPLODE?!

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🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Paul Heyman shooting from the hip was just one of the highlights of ECW's final 12 months... Simon Miller presents the 10 Greatest Things About ECW’s Final Year...


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0:00.0

If you're of a certain age, you miss ECW.

0:03.6

It was just a whirlwind of madness when it arrived on the scene and do not get it wrong.

0:07.9

The then WF and WCW borrowed a lot from Paul Heyman, as well as a lot of his roster,

0:13.0

but he was lightning in a bottle.

0:14.5

So let us get nostalgic today because I am signed for what culture please do go crest

0:18.3

that subscribe button and click it.

0:20.7

And this is the 10 Greatest Things about ECW's last year.

0:25.0

10.

0:27.0

When Taz returned to ECW to topple Mike Awesome on the 14th of April 2000,

0:31.5

it was like time stood still.

0:33.6

Because yeah, for one, the man who loves the colour orange was under employed

0:37.2

of instant man, but two.

0:39.1

Awesome work for WCW.

0:41.3

This is like the twilight zone.

0:42.6

As Mike had signed while still the ECW champion though, Paul Heyman put in a cool

0:46.8

two-mic man who he was buddy buddy with and asked if the human suplex machine could make a

0:51.2

shocking comeback.

0:52.4

Incredibly Vince said yes.

0:54.2

Fans lost it when they saw this as you would and after Taz had won the gold,

0:57.7

he even wore it on WWE TV.

1:00.4

That was mostly just so triple H could beat the ECW champion on Raw,

1:04.3

but let us not worry about that.

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