I was there. I spent a lot of my teen years in Philly in the ECW arena. Traveling around to all the shows in the Tri- state area and helping set up the ring, chairs, cleaning up afterwards. I'm one of the few kids that was allowed into the front rows at house shows. Having lived this exact night over and over through retellings. Jack did a great job of telling this story on behalf of us for whom it's just another one of those ECW stories we grew up with. Thanks Jack.
I was at this show as well! I remember Tommy laying on the ground under the eagles nest for awhile. What I remember the most was the smell in the building after. For some reason the area always smelled like mouth wash. Maybe it’s what they used to clean the bathrooms. But have that show it smelled like a Burger King. Like burnt hamburger. This video was dead on. Exactly as I remember it.
I was also there! Myself and the Hulkster had just returned from a month long tour in Japan during which we wrestled 32 nights in one month. How is that possible? I do not know, ask the Hulkster
You should do a video about Tommy's struggle to get over with the ECW fans. Then he started feuding with Sandman and then the Singapore Cane Match happened and Tommy took each shot, with pride. Thus gaining the fans respect and you can say also Sandman's, as latter on they would team together to face Raven.
There's footage of a match of Nick Gage vs John Zandig where one of them is power bombed into a flaming table. Nick ended up with really nasty burns on his back, and to this day, Nick refuses to do any spot involving fire. He even said in a recent interview that he had to talk David Arquette out of using fire in their infamous match. Can you blame him?
@@djgaben6187 He admitted in the Nick Gage episode of DSoR that his match with Nick was more about being ashamed at being booked as the WCW champion and wanting to prove he could actually wrestle.
@@outstretchedwings I find it ironic that he wanted to prove he could "actually wrestle" by doing a garbage death match. Doing a death match doesnt automatically make you a shitty wrestler, but TONS of shitty wrestlers tend to do deathmatches.
@@letsplayxboxsports I don't know man. Color and undeniably real pain in the right spots can inject some much needed realism and relentless passion. When it's overused though it just becomes gimmicky bloodbaths with no real drama behind it. Can provide true holy shit moments in proper measured doses. Plus even the shittiest wrestler willing to shed blood for a sport we all love deserves at least a little respect from us fans but I agree when overused it becomes meaningless. In my experience the shittiest wrestlers I ever watched were the big bodybuilder types or 'giants' who spend more time lifting weights than running ropes.
Yes, yes I can fucking blame him? Have you seen their match dude? He literally almost cut his throat after explicitly not following along with some simple requests from his opponent to not cut his face seeing as how he was an actor
you know what would be a intriuging(sorry for bad spelling) story.. the true story of the first ever tournament of death, imagine the interesting mind set, how to execute it and what the winner had to go through in order to be prepare for a 3 straight deathmatch show and aftermath of it
Nobody got burned from the first row. I was in the second row and (for whatever reason 🤦♂️) we were standing on our chairs. I saw him taping the towel to the chair and thinking “umm…. Tape melts”. It looked like they used medical tape. Anyways I remember him running right in my direction swinging the chair as the tape had melted and the fire ball was headed straight for me. People in the front row backed right into me and my foot went in the gap of the back of the chair and it folded up, I fell and people were on the chair with my leg in it while I was laying on the ground and everyone was trying to get out and somebody tripped over me. F’d my leg up a little bit but nothing serious. But I didn’t see any fan get burned and I was behind this supposed “victim”. But the PTSD thing I get. That shit was scary as fu$&.
Mick Foley was right about hardcore wrestling fans look at Mick Foley now vs Tommy Dreamer. Tommy Dreamer had everything he needed to be a big start but he stayed with the hardcore wrestling.
