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       Promo Classics; Shane Douglas defines his career
       By: SheriffLonestar Date: October 29, 2013, 5:56 pm
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       This is the promo who sets a light under ECW and burns their
       bridge with the NWA. This promo, deserves some background. In
       1994 Dennis Corluzo who was a promoter in New York got on the
       board of the NWA and began petitioning the board for their
       champion (then WCW's Ric Flair) to make title defenses against
       competition outside of WCW. It was quite the legal coup, but WCW
       was not about to let its champion go and work for anyone. The
       easiest thing to do to save face was to drop out of the NWA
       (Flair then became the International Heavyweight Champion and
       unified it with the WCW world title later in the year). Fellow
       board members New Japan Pro Wrestling also left the NWA in
       Protest. Corluzo, having masterminded a coup in the NWA set
       about remaking it as an Indie strong hold. He planned to work
       with other promoters to develop a network around the world like
       back in the old days. With NJPW and WCW gone ECW became the name
       player in the organisation. There where two people ECW Corluzo
       had pissed off. Paul Heyman, lead booker and Shane Douglas who
       Corluzo had accused on a national radio program of no showing
       dates (he hadn't by the way). With the agreement in place that
       the winner of the NWA title tournament would be an ECW wrestler.
       Paul made sure that Shane got to pull the biggest double cross
       in ECW history and this is what happened.
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