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Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week Special; The Night Everything
Changed
By: SheriffLonestar Date: August 13, 2013, 1:26 pm
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Sometimes one match can change a wrestlers career, Sting's 45
minute draw with Ric Flair. Sometimes one match can change a
companies direction, Steve Austin's Submission loss to Bret
Hart.
And sometimes a match can change the way the industry works.
This is one of those matches, a mid week special if you will
because it isn't really a PPV, it wasn't on a PPV card, thought
it was on a major event for an at the time small company. It
emanated from a Bingo Hall which had to be emptied by midnight
so the late shift could call the numbers. It was the night ECW
came of age, The Night the Line was Crossed. A three way dance,
not a triple threat mind you, match that established ECW as the
new direction for Pro Wrestling in North America, and its
participants changed the perception of their careers forever.
ECW was essentially a new promotion. Initially created as
Eastern Championship wrestling in 1993 it was Todd Gordon's baby
still then. Having brought in Eddie Gilbert as booker who in
turn brought in a lot of stars he had established the company as
a fair but not special local territory. There was a lot of
conjecture that Gilbert was bleeding the company dry as he
attempted to rebuild Memphis a few thousand miles north. The hot
shot booking did attract a crowd though and when Eddie and Todd
fell out, the man who took the reigns was the one to create the
true ECW, Paul Heyman.
At the time Sabu was just on the cusp of greatness. Trained by
his Uncle, The Original Sheik, he had caught on in FMW as a wild
man, a younger version of The Sheik himself. He threw himself
into that environment with wild abandonment and collected the
scar tissue to prove it. FMW's barb wire and baseball bat
environment was a tailor made proving ground for a man who was
to become Homicidal, Genocidal and Suicidal. His work did not go
unnoticed and Paul Heyman's shopping list included the man from
Bombay, Michigan. To the ECW faithful, he was everything that
wrestling should be about; gutsy, animalistic and visceral. His
apparent will to put his health on the line in front of the most
blood thirsty fans in the world made him a hero in short order.
Shane Douglas was perhaps the biggest outsider of them all in
this story. You take one look at Shane Douglas and he looks like
money; the perfect wrestling body, Adonis good looks, a full set
of highly polished wrestling skills endorsed by no lesser
talents than Magnum TA. He was the one who should have made it
big. Yet he didn't, every turn he could in his young wrestling
career went wrong one way or another. His first run in WCW went
to hell with the incredibly pour (even by WCW standards) Dynamic
Dudes tag team. Johnny Ace his partner shook it off and went to
All Japan and runs at the Triple Crown, but Shane went to The
WWF and died a hundred deaths in a glorified jobber role. He
returned to WCW and was a star player in the feud of the year.
Himself and Ricky Steamboat had perhaps the best tag feud of the
90's with The Hollywood Blondes and Dustin Rhodes and Barry
Windham. Out of the six people involved only Douglas didn't end
up with a major singles run from it. He was angry and had a
point to prove, as so many ECW stars did, so when his WCW time
was up Paul Heyman wanted The Franchise.
Last but by no means least, the legend that is Terry Funk.
Beginning the third phase of his career which began as the son
of Dory Funk Senior and had moved on into being the NWA
champion. His key attribute was a connection with the fans few
wrestlers even today posses. As Dusty Rhodes put it, “I wrestled
Dory Funk Junior one night for an hour and got a standing
ovation. I wrestled Terry the next night in ten minutes there
was a riot”. Just at the start of his blood and guts phase, he
was another FMW alumnus, Funk was ready to make some new stars
and give back the business that have given him so much. One of
the few established icons of that era to even consider that
there might be a need for the industry to continue.
So there you have it, the mad scientist, the maniac, the
Franchise and the legend. At their creative peaks and they gave
the wrestling world something very special. Without this match
there would be no Extreme, there would be no Attitude, there
would be no one who was Stone Cold and there would be no TNA.
This is where it all started folks February 5, 1994.
HTML http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsedmi_shane-douglas-vs-terry-funk-vs-sabu-ecw-the-night-the-line-was-crossed_sport
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week Special; The Night Everyt
hing Changed
By: 01332tnafan Date: August 13, 2013, 5:11 pm
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Good read I guess lol. Where is the vid lol
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week Special; The Night Everyt
hing Changed
By: SheriffLonestar Date: August 14, 2013, 12:32 am
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Its on the posy just press play bottom left hand corner :).
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week Special; The Night Everyt
hing Changed
By: tnafan Date: August 14, 2013, 7:37 am
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I can not see it lol.,
Also EC did a hell of a lot for the wrestling world back in the
day .
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week Special; The Night Everyt
hing Changed
By: SheriffLonestar Date: August 14, 2013, 4:54 pm
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Its daily motion so its a bit different to the youtube vids I
usually use. If you right click on it you can copy the url and
then paste it into you browser :).
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