10 Fascinating WWE King Of The Ring 1995 Facts
8. ECW Banners Were Confiscated Before The Show
Because King of the Ring was in Philadelphia, the home of Extreme Championship Wrestling, the night was a collision course for differing ideologies. McMahon pressed onward with his technicolor circus marketed to still-believing kids, while ECW was attractive to smartened-up fans that didn't like having their intelligence insulted, and had outgrown what WWE was at the time.
Many fans had brought ECW-related signs and banners into the Spectrum, only to have the majority of them taken away by sign-checkers and security guards. The heat from a non-WWE endeavor was clearly being felt by company brass, who tried to head off the intrusion in advance. However, the ECW influence would crop up later in the evening, in a much more memorable way.