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The Rise & Fall of ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling
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Independent wrestling promotions were once the norm all across the country. However, with the rise of World Wrestling Entertainment and the creation of World Championship Wrestling -- out of three Southern promotions -- the possibility of an independent succeeding grew fainter and fainter. As the nineties began, independents were looking for creative ways to survive. In the East, several banded together to share cost and talent; they were known as Eastern Championship Wrestling. Based out of a warehouse in Philadelphia that stored parade floats and hosted bingo, this promotion seemed doomed to be just one more ninety-day wonder. When they hired a brash New Yorker, Paul Heyman, he warned Eastern Championship Wrestling that the job was just temporary. He would come in, shake up a lot of the wrestlers, and then leave. But what Heyman did redefined professional wrestling in the nineties. What he created was a company that dared to push the boundaries of sports entertainment. What he created became Extreme Championship Wrestling.
As the person responsible for booking -- who was going to wrestle and who was going to win -- Heyman dared to b
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Straight from the Hart 9781550229394, 9781770900042, 1770900047
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Copyright © Bruce Hart, 2011 Published by ecw press 2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, Canada m4e 1e2 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW Press. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. library and archives of canada cataloguing in publication Hart, Bruce, 1951Straight From the Hart / Bruce Hart. isbn 978-1-55022-939-4 also issued as: 978-1-77090-003-5 (pdf ); 978-1-77090-004-2 (epub) 1. Hart, Bruce, 1951-. 2. Hart family. 3. Stampede Wrestling (Firm)—History. 4. Wrestlers—Canada—Biography. 5. Wrestling—Alberta—History. I. Title. gv1196.h372a3 2011
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