10 Forgotten ECW Wrestlers You Totally Don't Remember

2. The Musketeer

Christopher Daniels ECW
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Someone must've sold Heyman on sitting down and smoking a few with RVD then downing endless beers with The Sandman before shows in 2000. That's the only reasonable explanation for why Paul decided that putting this guff on his programming was the right call. The Musketeer remains one of ECW's worst ever gimmicks.

Everyone should be grateful it was short-lived.

"El Musky" worked his first bout vs. Jean-Pierre LaFitte on a house show in July 2000. That pirate vs. pirate encounter would've been silly and goofy enough that it immediately rubbished ECW's counter-culture brags about being different to the cartoonish WWF and WCW. Oops.

For some reason, rather than packing Musky in a cannon and firing him out to sea, ECW kept The Musketeer around and turned him into a quasi-mascot for Simon Diamond. It was horrible, but it happened. Incredibly, the fake pirate wasn't Diamond's only pet project towards the end of ECW's shelf life.

He had a whole faction of misfits.

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