10 Times ECW Was The Most Insane Wrestling Company In The World
1. The Mass Transit Incident
ECW was the most extreme wrestling promotion of its time, but New Jack was something else. The three-time ECW Tag Team Champion was a ‘different cat’, another way of referring to someone as being completely insane, and he has become synonymous with all that is disgusting about professional wrestling. Saying that, New Jack and the word ‘professional’ don’t really go together.
New Jack’s mot unprofessional moment was one of the most disgusting events in the long history of pro wrestling, which is saying something. The Mass Transit Incident is synonymous with wrestling’s underbelly, one of those things that is deserving of a spotlight on a show called ‘Dark Side of the Ring’.
In short, the incident saw New Jack slice open the forehead of a 17-year-old kid who somehow managed to convince Paul Heyman that he was 23 and trained, and could thus fill in for Axl Rotten on a show. New Jack cut the kid (wrestling as ‘Mass Transit’, real name Erich Kulas) with a surgical scalpel, severing two arteries in his forehead in the process. ECW’s upcoming pay-per-view was cancelled, the whole thing led to a big lawsuit and has forever sullied all involved.
Where to begin? The Mass Transit Incident is one of those rare perfect storms, where every single person involved is at fault in one way or another. ECW was insane, and not always for the best.