9. The World Class TV Library
To the now average WWE fanatic, the idea that ECW's TV programming has been uploaded to the WWE Network is exciting. Especially given Paul Heyman's recent run of dominance on WWE television, the promotion's gritty and grainy early era broadcasts showcase Heyman's oftentimes zany maniacal genius in the booking of the matches and pacing of the programming. However, for as much as ECW is the re-tooled, sleek, yet ratchet Tokyo Drift-mobile, Dallas-based World Class Championship Wrestling is a stately Cadillac, the height of high-class everything for the me-generation 1980s. If a subscriber to WWE's
Classics On Demand when it was available from cable subscribers, there were certainly more than the few World Class programs made available at-present on the WWE Network. If you think John Cena is something, check out WCCW's trio of gifted brothers (and promoter Fritz's sons) who met tragic ends, Kerry, Kevin and David Von Erich. Thinking that Bray Wyatt is weird? Check out The Missing Link. Also, if looking for the first "mercenaries for hire" in pro wrestling, WCCW has Brock Lesnar prototypes in King Kong Bundy and Bruiser Brody, too. Dolph Ziggler wouldn't be a show-off without Michael Hayes of the Fabulous Freebirds doing it first, and somewhere WWE owns footage of the likes of Gino Hernandez, "Gentleman" Chris Adams and "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin taking part in angles with content potentially so questionable that even for 21st century viewers is 10 steps ahead of its time.