Paul E. Dangerously Eastern Championship Wrestling Debut

[RegaLPleX08]

Its Kane

[maziku]

snuka was a big man

[lvw100]

Paul E mentions the Super Fly leap from the top of the cage with the guy he hit with it standing right next to him..........interesting.

[hustleking17]

ECW in its pre-extreme days is better to watch than the current WWE.

[jamminmusicman]

I MISS THE 90'S !

[dude075wm]

da birth of ecw..i never saw this b4,,,gr8 post..

[jcp1977]

where the hell was that dumbass Joey Styles at when this started.

[MRobert21]

@jcp1977 Paul Heyman discovered Joey Styles and brought him in after Heyman took over the booking from Eddie Gilbert. I guess either Styles was in college or working in advertising (as he always had to before going to the WWF since ECW never paid anything) at the time of this show.

[MrNYCman530]

It's strange to see Snuka and Muraco as allies.

[ajpecanic]

@MrNYCman530 Especially when Paul E is talking about Snuka flying off the cage to crush Muraco, and all Muraco does is smile.

[OtorresFitness]

Amazing to see the original ECW in it's infancy, before they took the Hardcore route. ECW! ECW! ECW! ECW!!!!!

[gonzomoya420]

who are the commentators? one guy sounds like Kevin Sullivan...

[wickedmountain]

why not in dallas meaning gwf!!!

[MRobert21]

@wickedmountain That GWF thing from Dallas never went any place. They had delusions of grandeur and worked somebody at ESPN to get on television for a couple of months (last time ESPN put wrestling on), but they had no $ behind them. GWF had a nice roster, but once the wrestlers all realized the promotion was lying and had no $ they all fled. I remember GIlbert booking an putting himself over in GWF, but he realized it was not going anywhere either. I doubt GWF had $ or a spot for Heyman.

[wickedmountain]

@MRobert21 uh I kinda know this and why reply to a 11 month old post

[MRobert21]

@wickedmountain You obviously did not know it or else you would not have asked your odd question. Nobody else had replied to your question, so I decided to do you a favor and educate you. Why do you ask a question on You Tube if you do not want replies to it? I had something to say and said it because I felt like it. Now, I am done with you on this video here and will ignore you after this.

[wickedmountain]

@MRobert21 it wasn't a question you moron it was a opinion duh I know more about wrestling them you could imagine so think again dumbass lol

[bradleyjstevens]

Rest in peace, Eddie.

[jaroncreed]

how did Eddie Gilbert die? I know he died some time back

[BaronTurco]

Cocaine OD

[MRobert21]

@jaroncreed "On February 18, 1995, Gilbert died of a heart attack. His father, Tommy Gilbert, stated that injuries to Eddie's chest and heart muscle had occurred in a serious car crash in 1983 and could have been a factor; Eddie's alleged use of painkillers since the accident could also have contributed to his heart condition." That quote is from Wikipedia's article on Gilbert and it is correct. Also, GIlbert used a lot of steroids and recreational drugs that probably hurt his heart.

[UncleJemimia]

Thanks for posting this popculturstu. I can appreciate this classic scene.

[TheWholeFknShow]

Paul E Paul E

[evilmidget]

was that Raven doing the commentary?

[MRobert21]

@evilmidget Nope, I am sure Scott Levy (Raven) was in WCW as Scotty Flamingo at this time (or he may have been in Texas in the short lived GWF as Scotty The Body). Levy did not join ECW and invent the Raven gimmick until he foolishly left the WWF in 1995 to try (and FAIL) to become a huge star.

[fridogg]

that's right Snuka was the first ever ECW

[MRobert21]

@fridogg This promotion actually started as the TWA in 1989 and then became ECW in 1992. It never made $ and always stunk. TWA / ECW was originally just a place for old, WWF, wash outs (Snuka, Muraco, Bellomo. Santana, et cetera) to work a monthly tiny indie show. All those guys had moved to the northeast when the WWF was on fire in the 1980's and they hung around doing tiny indie dates like this hoping McMahon would take them back I guess. Heyman took the book and turfed these oldsters out.

[VOROX9]

Who comes up with this names?... ... I like 'em!

[mooky9669]

classic..I remember watching ECW on Primestar satellite when it was Eastern Championship Wrestling..and ECW...don't remember what station it was on..

[skinwalkerxxx]

"what kind of evil alliance is this!" lol so corny compared to the ECW we know of.

[anime1lvr]

how do u pronounce debut? is it like: de butt? or what? OMG THAT RYMES

[ReyMysterio1254]

Its like:

Day Bute

[anime1lvr]

oh thanks :)

i always wondered how to spell that word ...

im stupid or something...

haha, de butt!

[ReyMysterio1254]

xD No problem.

[rollrock47]

murocco and snuka were washed up wwf wrestlers, now down graded to this crap grade promotion, what a joke

[KRS1DropsKnowledge]

Muraco and Snuka together, those guys used to hate each other in the 80s. This makes me think wrestling might not be real.

[revelashaun68]

LOL, remember wrestlers turn and change aliances.

[SashaNein]

Are you just now starting to figure that out? >_>

[richardc0077]

Is it my imagination or did Paul copy elements of his "character" right from the master.

The master being "Hot Rod". Paul sounds just like him. I kept thinking where have I heard this before.

[B44501xRacerEX]

Paul E said Todd Gordon? He was talking about WCW wasnt he? Well that's where I remember Paul E from. He created ECW with the help of Terry Funk and several others. I saw the documentary on it.

[mcflougal]

ecw then stood for eastern championship wrestling, it was changed to 'extreme' after heyman started booking when gilbert fell out with todd gordon

[MRobert21]

@mcflougal Nope, wrong on that. Heyman had been booking for a while before ECW became Extreme. ECW became Extreme instead of Eastern in 1994 when Shane Douglas threw down the fictional NWA title belt and ECW broke away from the, then defunct, NWA. ECW had been NWA: Eastern Championship Wrestling, but the NWA name no longer meant anything and back in the mid 1990's everything was renaming itself as Extreme as a marketing gimmick, so Gordon and Heyman followed pop culture on that.

[Countdown2Hangar18]

watch the rise and fall of ecw and your question will be answered.

[MRobert21]

@B44501xRacerEX Heyman said Todd Gordon because the story line was that he was coming in to take over ECW, which Gordon then owned on and off camera (the story later on became a shoot). Heyman was not talking about WCW here and he only went anti WCW when he took over the book in ECW. Heyman and Funk did not create ECW. The Goodharts and Todd Gordon founded ECW as TWA, they Gordon took out the Goodharts and made it ECW. Heyman then took out Gordon years later and ran the company until it died

[cmpunk49]

look paul e still had hair lol

[SUBWAY93]

paul e is the man he used 2 be so skinny lol he was supposed to go 2 wwf as paul e dangerously after wcw but he was waiting and then he created ecw because of a dispute in eastern championship wrestling and got the permission from todd gordon to take over n his motavation was to take down wcw

[Waltersilvy]

actually not long after he came to eastern championship wrestling he was supposed to be starting a new promotion that was to be aired in HD on the internet. he was working with jim crocket. they did film i think 1 or 2 events in HD but he left cause he was going to be doing things with ecw.

[MRobert21]

@Waltersilvy Heyman wanted to own his own wrestling company, but could not get any $ to start 1. Heyman messed with Jim Crockett's HD thing that taped 1 show and went no place because Jim Crockett had no $ (Mommy Crockett controls the $ and she was done letting her idiot sons Jimmy and Davey waste her $, which is why she sold WCW in the first place). Heyman then decided the best way to own a wrestling company was to take over an existing company , so he got in ECW and eventually took over.

[CharlieMac429]

You could tell he was going to go bald though...he was in the beginning stages

[Sasfoot]

Paul E. Dangerously originally started out with the AWA in the mid 80's. Watching old footage of him from those shows on ESPN Classic is hilarious.

[srprazak]

He'd been at it on wrestling TV well before his AWA stint. Several NE regional groups who had TV.

[MRobert21]

@srprazak Heyman's first national television exposure was in the AWA on ESPN in 1987. Prior to that Heyman had been in Memphis, which only had local television. Most people only knew Heyman for his WCW run on TBS at this time after he left the AWA. There were rumors Heyman was supposed to go to WWF at around this time, but I doubt it since McMahon started eliminating managers in 1992 when business went south.

[scrippler]

This is even better then watching that new wwe ecw crap.

[NYR21135]

thats some seriously bad production

[mkl62]

Paul E. Dangerously came to ECW after Bill Watts fired him from WCW for expense fraud, a charge he denied. Watts ran a lot of good wrestlers off (Rick Rude, Scott Steiner, Arn Anderson). Watts was too stuck in the past. Now that I know what I know, I wish Watts would have come to ECW and gotten thrown through a table by The Dudleys.

[AllYourBaseBelong2Us]

wow...paul heyman used to be thin....

[hydra555]

damn does ECW remind me of ROH.

[actionsub]

@hydra555 ROH started out as an attempt to get back to what ECW was. Any similarities between the old ECW and ROH are very intentional.

[Sargebri]

@hydra555 Part of the reason for that is that when ROH first started, Gabe Sapolsky, who played a role in a lot of what ECW was their booker.

[Obelisk2290]

the mad genius, thanks for uploading

[DamianBCollins]

Even then ECW had a little Edge.

[thatthingyoudo]

Where it all began..

[MrJTex]

Could someone tell me about the details of Snuka, Muraco, and Gilbert joining and what the group was called before and after Heyman debuted?

[vanmahlin]

yup that was jimmy snuka.

ecw was eastern championship wrestling from 93,94, and part of 95, untill the "douglas scandal" then they left the nwa and branched off to extreme championship wrestling.

abdullah the butcher was in there too back in the day...kevin sullivan even did a match or two.

eddie gilbert was champ (i think) for a long run, before douglas.

[Novakane487]

Holy crap, ECW here looks like any other indy wrestling league. Those guys don't look like ECW -type guys. This must have been right before they became extreme.

P.S. Is that Jimmy Snuka?

[miseryagogo]

"Those guys don't look like ECW -type guys." Eddie Gilbert and even Snuka (yes that was him) were always ECW-type guys before there even was a ECW. And yes when Heyman came in and more of the younger guys began to be featured and they started taking more risks and bluring up the kayfabe, thats when the ECW as the standard wrestling fan would later know came to be.

[MRobert21]

@Novakane487 Yes, that is Snuka and you are right that these are not ECW type guys. These are the old, WWF, has beens from the 1980's who just hung around the northeast hoping McMahon would take them back. This was just another indie company making no $ and putting on crap shows. This was long before ECW became extreme. Once Heyman got the book, he tossed out all these guys and booked mainly younger guys and guys who had been on television more recently than these old timers.

[Novakane487]

WHOA!! ECW before it was ECW. Damn Paul turned this crap into a phenomenon.

[Ringratt]

Yes,Yes he did ECW was da best fed in da country in early 90's witnessed it all 1st hand!!!!!aka Evil Genius!

[MRobert21]

@Novakane487 Heyman did not exactly make the crap a phenomena. For 1 thing, Heyman never made a profit in ECW even when the company was growing. What gave ECW its little burst of success was the invention of the web and ECW was the first promotion to really have a strong internet presence. As far as the booking goes, all of Heyman's booking was ripped off Florida and Memphis stuff that was no different than what Gilbert was booking except Heyman used younger guys than Gilbert did.

[Ringratt]

All legends in dat ring!!

[thewholefinshow]

tod gordon still helped make ecw

[bloodgutsdeath]

that was Tod the mole Gordon doing commentary

[Grunt6869]

no it wasnt

[popculturestu]

Steven D. Wonderful (might be spelling that wrong) was on color.

[thepaulminator17]

who was the other guy? sounds like mark madden from the late wcw years

[popculturestu]

Jay Sully

[Crimmond]

Still think it's hilarious that peopel buy the whole 'Mole' storyline. It was made up to fuck with the fans and get interest in the storylines going.

[WWEFanatic2007]

Well it actually took Paul E. just 7 years for ECW to go broke but hey it was fun while it lasted!

[WarriorOfTime]

Hey, WWEFanatic2007, guess what??

ECW was fun while it lasted, but WWE is still around and no fun at all.

[MRobert21]

@WWEFanatic2007 ECW actually lasted 12 years from its original incarnation as TWA in 1989 until it died as ECW in 2001. The company never at any point made a profit, though it kept getting bigger and bigger. Todd Gordon was just a money mark who was happy to go out once a month and put on a show that drew nothing while he put himself over. Heyman was a mad scientist and maniac who wanted to take over wrestling, which helped ECW grow for a while, but was what finally killed ECW off totally.

[LuvSealsSoaps]

oh wow, was that announcer Joel Gertner?

[jimbo2346]

Nope. One of the guys was named Jay Sulli, and the other, I can't remember his name, was some guy who looked like that pirate dude from the movie Dodgeball.

[PhilM662]

stevie wonderful

[phobos271]

Actually not rare at all. I have obtained ECW from 93 through 98 recently. It is easy to find this you just have to know where to look.

[jackhammerslam316123]

point me in the right direction pls

[Germany1111]

Snuka with the old-school ECW TV belt. Cool.

[jlward]

Hey, I'm from Portland, OR, and Jack in the Box draws way more than any local promotion here LOL

[MRDXKLIQ101]

id love to see more old clips like this

[buyystocks]

what happened to muracos built was this after he was really built????

[chaldodon]

ECW ECW ECW ECW ECW ECW ECW

[ShiksaWithChutzpah]

A truly historic and pivotal moment in wrestling history. Thanks for posting this!!

[ants84]

rare as fuck how the hell did you get this

[popculturestu]

The joys of living in a digital age and the magic of file sharing networks.

[phobos271]

Actually not rare at all. I have obtained ECW from 93 through 98 recently. It is easy to find this you just have to know where to look.