Paul Heyman has had a unique career in the world of professional wrestling. While WWE and WCW clashed in the late 90s, he brought in ECW as a threat to take over both companies in TV ratings. However, that never happened as the Philadelphia-based promotion shut its operations in 2001 and WWE brought it in 2003. There are ample stories from the ECW era of wrestling that have been covered in several documentaries. Surprisingly, the company’s founder recently shared there are plenty of more stories that The Wise Man hasn’t told about ECW.
There are more unsaid ECW stories apart from what Paul Heyman has shared!
Tod Gordon started ECW in 1992 as an affiliate of NWA. It was named Eastern Championship Wrestling before Paul Heyman took over the creatives when he named it Extreme Championship Wrestling.
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Recently, Tod Gordon appeared on the Outdated Wrestling podcast to promote his new book ‘Tod is God’. He mentioned having stories in the book that The Bloodline’s Special Counsel hasn’t shared yet.
Gordon said, “I’m gonna tell you stuff that you weren’t told before. You’re gonna hear stories about drugs, s*x, rock and roll, all that good stuff, and you’re gonna hear some bad stuff too about people who were just dishonest. What really happened to Paul and I? I mean, there’s a lot of stories in here that have never been told publicly before.”
The 68-year-old added, “If ever you were a fan of ECW, anybody, they’re going to say, ‘Wow. Wait, what’, or they will be hysterically laughing. It’s that kind of thing…Nobody’s telling the true story. It had to be told finally. I would have stayed quiet for life if he hadn’t done that DVD.”
Nevertheless, the extreme promotion closed its doors in 2001 as Heyman announced bankruptcy. The situation was so bad that RVD once mentioned that Heyman owes him a lot of money until today.
The founder of ECW told the host that there is so much that is not covered by Heyman and other stars. Through this book, he wants to tell those stories that nobody knows happened in ECW.
The reason why Tod Gordon decided to write this book
The story of ECW is extensively covered in several WWE documentaries. However, Gordon called it “unauthorized” and claimed many things aren’t told in the documentaries.
When he saw Paul Heyman’s DVD regarding ECW, he made up his mind to write this book. Gordon claims he kept quiet for nearly 30 years and couldn’t take Heyman lying in his DVD anymore. Hence, Gordon penned all the unsaid information in the book: Tod is God.
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