In the early 90s, Paul Heymans ECW promotion started a revolution. Their implementation of sex and violence into wrestling gave the product an edge that it had never had before. ECW's innovations would become the template for how to present pro-wrestling in the new millennium. Among those innovations was a fresh take on overbooking. The bookers of ECW were artists at overbooking and their masterpiece was a 2/3 falls Dog Collar Match that pitted The Pitbulls against Raven and Stevie Richards. The match type itself was actually fairly run of the mill for the wild promotion, but it would soon prove to serve as the stage for the culmination of nearly every major storyline in play at the time. While watching this match out of context makes it seem like a random series of run-ins, catfights and other bizarre occurrences; if you take a few minutes to review the stories that led to this encounter youll find that every incident was the result of pre-established rivalries and angles coming to fairly logical conclusions. That is what separates good overbooking from bad overbooking. While the events in play here could have easily provided content for months if not years of storylines, the simply brilliant way that ECW presented them in around 20 minutes of time proved that sometimes in wrestling nothing exceeds like excess.
