Used to hate the hardcore style, but ECW finally won me over

I always thought garbage matches with trash cans and kendo sticks were just lazy booking, but I watched a 1997 ECW show from the ECW Arena last weekend and it clicked. The crowd was 1,200 people going insane for a spike piledriver through a table, and I realized the storytelling through violence actually makes sense when it's not overdone.

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lilyb273mo ago

Respectfully disagree, the blood and garbage just felt like a cheap shortcut to me.

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gray_patel3mo ago

Yeah nah, you get it. That crowd energy changes everything. ECW at its best was pure chaos with a point.

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