10 Times WWE Crowd Completely Stole The Show

By Jack Morrell /

5. The Bring Your Own Weapons Match

Part of the reason that ECW fans were as passionate as they were about their promotion€™s product, and part of the reason that a failed wrestling promotion is still talked about over a dozen years after collapsing through bankruptcy is the level of audience participation that was considered the norm: and nowhere was that more evident than in the €˜Bring Your Own Weapons€™ match. Crutches, a two-man kayak, a Leonard Cohen vinyl record, a VCR, a SNES console, a full-sized stop sign, household furniture and kitchen utensils like the infamous cast iron skillet that Cactus Jack used to beat the Sandman were the norm for matches of this type, the fans often purchasing them from a dime store near the venue for just that purpose and offering them to the wrestlers during the match. It was the skillet that clinched it: after Foley nearly brained the Sandman with the genuinely heavy iron pan, the €˜Bring Your Own Weapons€™ gimmick was terminated with immediate effect.