The former mastermind behind Extreme Championship Wrestling, none other than Paul Heyman, recently spoke with "Screen Rant," where he was asked about some matches from the original ECW that just don't quite get the credit they deserve. He cited a feud from the company's latter years as one that is underappreciated still to this day:
"We, being ECW, got so much credit for the popularity of a three-way match, and I don't think there was a three-way match in history that was nearly as exciting as the series that was put together by Super Crazy versus Tajiri versus Little Guido, who later became known as Nunzio in WWE. I would suggest those three-way matches are the most underrated, the most underappreciated. And just because they were on the supporting part of the card for, at the time, big title matches that we were presenting and really pushing as the centerpiece of the promotion, people, just in terms of history, have lost sight of how influential Super Crazy versus Tajiri versus Little Guido was. And the quality of the matches that they put on stands the test of time," Heyman said.
To prove how tightly linked Super Crazy, Yoshihiro Tajiri and Little Guido are to this day, the 3 men were recently teammates on January 19th, 2025 for Game Changer Wrestling's "The People vs. GCW" event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, a building that ECW made famous. The ECW originals picked up the win over Los Desperados (Arez, Gringo Loco and Jack Cartwheel) in an action-packed 6-man tag match on a show that also featured Masato Tanaka (another ex-ECW star) being defeated by Joey Janela.
Related (GCW-wise):
peaking of GCW, the ultraviolent deathmatch promotion that some say is like the original ECW, has been booking several ECW Originals recently and will be hosting the upcoming retirement match of Sabu, who will be facing the aforementioned Joey Janela at GCW's Joey Janela's Spring Break 9 event in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 18th. Also, Super Crazy will be appeared on their San Diego event coming up on February 28th, facing Rey Horus. More information on GCW can be found HERE
No comments:
Post a Comment