10 Wrestlers You Totally Forgot Worked For ECW

10. Sid

Sid entered ECW as he entered most promotions: blitzing his way through unfortunate souls in ghoulishly entertaining short-round squash matches.

Both performer and promotion were past their primes, but the spectacle of Sid in ECW was still a spot of worlds-collide fun, particularly since he looked even more massive in those small-scale civic centres. Heyman is remembered for his old "accentuate the positives, hide the negatives" maxim, but lost to revisionist history is the fact that so many high-profile ECW matches went far, far too long.

This wasn't the case with Sid, thank Christ.

Sid debuted at Guilty As Charged. He was always going to generate a massive pop, but he was helped on the night by the dismal "crazy" acting of impromptu opponent John Kronus. Sid emerged, wearing jeans, because it was only ECW, and no-sold Kronus' flurry of punches. He then grabbed him by the throat. We expected Sid to land his trademark gentle choke slam, but the man acquitted himself to his new hardcore home by recklessly launching Kronus neck-first out of the ring and through the ever-present ringside table. The Millennium Man was in ECW for a minute, but what a minute it was.

Hilariously, Sid was safer in the land of barbed wire, unprotected chair shots and fire than he was in WCW where, under the direction of John Laurinaitis, he snapped his fibula in two following an ill-advised top-rope big boot.