ECW Legend Hated Time in WWE, "It Was Soul Sucking" Published Mar 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM EDT Updated Mar 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM EDT. By . Jeremy Hanna is a Newsweek contributor based in Los Angeles.

Paul Heyman recently sat down with Newsweek Sports to talk about his episode of Biography: WWE Legends, his family, ECW, and the future of modern professional wrestling. A post shared by instagram.

More ECW originals, who fans wanted to see on the revamped brand, would likely have had much more air time compared to the home-grown stars of WWE, like Bobby Lashley, who McMahon wanted to push.

In a recent interview with another ECW legend, Rob Van Dam, on the "1 Of A Kind" podcast, Sandman was blunt about how much he "hated it" in WWE and had "no friends" in the locker room. It was soul ...

There, Taz cemented himself as one of ECW’s top stars, rising the ranks to eventually become ECW World Heavyweight Champion. Injuries piled up for Taz around 2000, leading him to slowly shift ...

Speaking of the old WWE ECW, where Colin Delaney first made his name in wrestling, he is pleased to see so many former members of that show now part of the AEW roster. "There's a lot of WWE ECW ...

WWE Vault is going to the extreme this week with a week-long celebration of all things ECW. In a preview trailer, former ECW owner Paul Heyman promises barbed wire, balcony dives, and broken rings ...

Approximately one year ago this week, WWE ECW, the former third brand of World Wrestling Entertainment, aired its final episode. During it's four-year lifespan, WWE ECW was never given the respect ...

The success of ECW as a secondary brand countering what WWE and WCW did made fans love it enough to form a long-lasting legacy. Paul Heyman has become a WWE legend who managed some all-time greats ...

WWE’s 2005 ECW One Night Stand is remembered as a love letter to the original ECW — a wild, beer-soaked celebration of what ...

WWE's version of Extreme Championship Wrestling was what many fans of the original promotion a slap in the face. Basically since ECW was not RAW or Smackdown, it was the C-Show and treated as such ...

Eventually WWE was like, “ECW is still too ECW” and replaced it with history’s worst pro wrestling game show. Eventually, as you know , NXT became a new version of WWE ECW without all the ...