The WWE in-ring career of Tazz didn't even last two years before he had to retire due to injuries and because WWE likely wasn't that thrilled with his in-ring work. The spelling of his name was Tazz in WWE and Taz everywhere else. The best use of Tazz was in ECW by Paul Heyman. He was the guy that Heyman picked to be the dominant wrestler of ECW even though he was only 5'9" and 240 pounds. What Tazz lacked in height, he made up for in talent. He could hit a variety of suplexes on any wrestler no matter how big they were and he was nicknamed "The Human Suplex Machine" as a result. He earned a reputation as a tough guy when he received a spike piledriver from 2 Cold Scorpio and Dean Malenko that badly injured his neck. He was able to walk away from it. When he returned to action in 1995, that's when ECW really started to push him. He eventually became the ECW Champion and was one of the most successful ECW performers ever. Tazz also used the Tazmission submission hold, which was a choke with a body scissors that looked difficult for anybody to get out of. That's the key to any wrestling finishing move. It has to look like it can hurt without actually doing any damage. There aren't a lot of wrestlers like Tazz. Most guys his size are told to be fliers in the ring and do moves off the top rope. Tazz wasn't like that. He was a power wrestler that just happened to be shorter.
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