Top 10 Extreme Championship Wrestling Wrestlers

Extreme Championship Wrestling would never be Extreme without their daring and potential performers. Paul Heyman and Tod Gordon managed to collected the most insane individuals that had hopes and dreams of being succcessful wrestlers. What both of those men put through their roster is offering the most brutal matches on American soil. All ECW had to do was book the show for them and the audience will cheer at almost everything they’ve done in the ring, on the mic, and elsewhere. I strongly believe that without Paul Heyman’s booking, none of ECW alumni would be remembered. He was able to take many of these no-names and give them a place to call home. The push that many of them got is something that all of them wouldn’t get in another promotion. Despite never being pushed hard in other promotions, their time in ECW will always give them credibility. Even though wrestling today no longer welcomes this level of violence and adult content, you still have to respect the fact that they got into dangerous positions and told very unique stories along the way. The fact that many of these faces automatically makes you think of Extreme Championship Wrestling by default tell you how much of an impact they’ve made in the wrestling world. There are so many performers who wrestled in ECW from 1992 – 2001 but which one is the best? How can you judge who qualifies as the best? I put it simply the amound accomplishments an ECW alumni made during the time when ECW was once a privately own company. So you’re not going to see any WWECW wrestlers (sorry CM Punk). What we’re judging here are the wrestlers that helped make ECW as iconic as it is and the accomplishments they’ve made during their time as well. ECW is one of the most beloved companies for a reason and here we are seeing who truly is the most important figures in this dead but not forgotten promotion. 

Top 20 Pro Wrestlers in the 1990s

Professional wrestling in the 1990s have always been famous for their storylines, and feuds, and (most of all) star power. This is an absent aspect in today’s wrestling and it’s one of things that make all wrestling fans feel right at home whenever they go back to this decade. Many of the most popular wrestlers (that are over the age of 50) had the best time of their lives from 1990 – 1999. As the wrestling industry got very fierce with competition, every promotion pushed their roster to go even futher (for ratings purposes). WCW, WWF, ECW, NJPW, AJPW, AJW, and FMW really made the most out of their wrestlers during this time. That means being charasmatic with promos had to be honed, making memorable moments to remain relevant, and in-ring psychology to keep people tuned and talk about for years to come. There are hundreds of favorite wrestlers in this decade, but I’m only including twenty different wrestlers based on one thing; greatness. By professional wrestling standards, greatness isn’t based on how good your gymnastics are (cough… cough… indie smartmarks), it’s based on the memorable moments that gets everyone talking about for many years to come. To get your audience continously bring up those moments, you need to have a great number of people knowing of those moments in time – whether if it’s winning the promotion’s most prestigious championship, making match of the night, creating feuds to get fans interesting, or have a segment that get people realize that there’s more to wrestling than workrates. What we’re judging here is the ammount of accomplishments during a wrestlers time in January 1st, 1990 to December 31st, 1999. Charisma, in-ring psychology, appearance, becoming a big selling draw, and accomplishments is what creates a true star, but we’re looking at those dates at what made wrestling as a whole truly special.

Top 10 Most Overrated Wrestlers

Wrestling fans may be the most opinionated type of people you can imagine. Every fan of professional wrestling is quite vocal on their favorite and their most hated wrestlers. We all have that feeling of why on Earth is this wrestler getting pushed or why does the audience react so fondly of them? You watch so carefully and you can’t even see what everyone sees in them. These ten wrestlers are mistaken as entertaining believable, or worth being in the spotlight. But how can you possibly convince those who are a big fan of these individuals that they are nowhere as good as they’re proclaimed or undeserving for attention? Well, I have a criterion of six factors that make a wrestler overrated.

I think it’s fair enough to judge a wrestler to differentiate an actual deserving wrestler to an overrated wrestler. These ten wrestlers in the list are not only undeserving to be in part of wrestling history but are, after all, not that good.