10 Historic Wrestling Moments You've Probably Never Seen
8. Tazz Wins The ECW Championship Again
In the wild world of wrestling politics, few moments are as bizarre—and quietly historic—as Tazz returning to ECW to win the company’s top title after signing with WWE.
By April 2000, ECW was in chaos. Champion Mike Awesome had just jumped ship to WCW while still holding the ECW World Title. Legal threats flew, and ECW needed a fix—fast. Enter Tazz, the company’s former cornerstone who had recently debuted for WWE. In an unprecedented move, WWE allowed Tazz to appear at an ECW show and defeat Awesome for the title in under two minutes.
It was surreal. A WWE-contracted wrestler beating a WCW-contracted wrestler for the ECW title, in an ECW ring, while being cheered by a rabid crowd that hadn't seen Tazz in months. And then, just as quickly, he vanished again—dropping the belt days later to Tommy Dreamer.
Yet, despite knowing all about it, most fans have never seen this match. For one, it wasn’t on pay-per-view—just a syndicated ECW TV taping. WWE rarely acknowledges it, and WCW certainly didn’t want to. It's a messy, fascinating moment buried in the cracks between the Monday Night Wars, one that proved how desperate, volatile, and strangely cooperative wrestling could be at the turn of the millennium.