During the event’s opening contest, Heyman, Dreamer and The Sandman appeared at ringside, all with the ECW logo emblazoned on their clothing. More than one year later at In Your House: Mind Games, Savio Vega was once again the victim of an ECW involvement. “I think it was Paul, Vince and Bruce Prichard - the head of talent relations at the time. “Paul said we were working on a deal with WWE to get us national exposure, but not a lot of people know about it,” Dreamer revealed. McMahon began to take notice of the small promotion that would revolutionize sports-entertainment. During the tournament final between Mabel and Savio Vega, a distinct chant of “E-C-Dub!” echoed throughout the famed Spectrum arena. At that time, ECW had built up a fiercely loyal following in their hardcore home of Philadelphia. The tenuous relationship between the two companies began in June 1995, when WWE came to Philadelphia with the King of the Ring pay-per-view.
( PHOTO GALLERY | VIDEO PLAYLIST | MORE ECW) We were taking away from their television time and I’m sure guys weren’t happy with it.” “We looked like a team and I remember Vince was really impressed with that, but the locker room wasn’t very welcoming to us.
“We all showed up in matching tracksuits that said ECW on them,” Tommy Dreamer told. It was a historic night for sports-entertainment, but the mood backstage was tense to say the least. McMahon to compete in sanctioned matches on that evening’s broadcast. Tommy Dreamer, Sabu and nearly a dozen more competitors from Extreme Championship Wrestling had been invited by Mr. 24, 1997, a group of misfits from Philadelphia showed up in the WWE locker room before that night’s Raw taping.
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