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The Philadelphia Inquirer has a profile on the early days of ECW, with quotes from Tod Gordon and Paul Heyman, in today's edition, obviously timed for Wrestlemania hitting the City of Brotherly Love at this link.
On the ECW product, Heyman stated he “create so much noise out of that bingo hall that fans of WWF and WCW [World Championship Wrestling] not only notice, but start clamoring and demanding the style that we were implementing,” Heyman said. “And to his credit, I never had to sell Tod on it."
On the fast success of the promotion, Gordon said, “I wish we would have walked before we ran. The growth became so overwhelming. I couldn’t run my business here and run what was going there at the rate it was growing. It was just so fast.”
The article traces the rise of ECW from the ashes of the old Tri-State Wrestling Alliance, the first ever ECW event at the Original Sports Bar, the talents that came through the promotion and its demise in 2001.
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