ECW in 94 was like The Sex Pistols et al in 77. Hardcore wrestling turned an entire industry on its head...Then bashed it round the mouth with a barbed-wire baseball bat for good measure. Hardcore, across all the promotions that glorified it, was nothing short of revolutionary. It was a special kind of extremist iconoclasm that aimed to knock down all that had gone before and replace it with something newer, grittier and tougher. Like the Impressionists, the DaDa movement and the Cubists of fine art, the punks of 77 or the rebel thinkers of the 19th century like Freud, Marx, Nietzsche and Darwin, hardcore wrestling set out to change the industry that had spawned it. Guess what? It succeeded.