10 Things We Learned From The Secret Diary Of A WWE Superstar
7. A Taste Of Extreme, And Things To Come
Weather conditions wrote off some of Hakushi's plans in February 1995, but he noted down what sounded like a transformative experience getting to catch the transcendent and white hot ECW in his downtime.
He said;
"I woke up in the morning and it was heavily snowing so it was impossible to fly to Hartford. Ms. Nakano called me from the Boston airport to tell me the show today has been cancelled. Mr. Saito called me to tell me tomorrow's show has been cancelled also. I thought I had to something during my time off. I was invited to an ECW show by Mr. Osamu Nishimura. It took 2 hours to get to Philadelphia which is the setting of "Rocky". I got to see Sabu, Pegasus Kid, and Cactus Jack there. Sabu was taken off on a stretcher during the show. I hope to fight him some day!"
He'd get his wishes granted in the end - an ECW World Tag Team Championship match at Heatwave 1998 saw him team with Hayabusa against Rob Van Dam and 'The Suicidal, Homicidal, Genocidal Maniac' and was for a while a cult classic within tape trading community and those plugged into Paul Heyman's product.