ECW in 94 was like The Sex Pistols et al in 77. Hardcore wrestling turned an entire industry on its head...Then bashed it round the mouth with a barbed-wire baseball bat for good measure. Hardcore, across all the promotions that glorified it, was nothing short of revolutionary. It was a special kind of extremist iconoclasm that aimed to knock down all that had gone before and replace it with something newer, grittier and tougher. Like the Impressionists, the DaDa movement and the Cubists of fine art, the punks of 77 or the rebel thinkers of the 19th century like Freud, Marx, Nietzsche and Darwin, hardcore wrestling set out to change the industry that had spawned it. Guess what? It succeeded.
I am a professional author and lifelong comic books/pro wrestling fan. I also work as a journalist as well as writing comic books (I also draw), screenplays, stage plays, songs and prose fiction.
I don't generally read or reply to comments here on What Culture (too many trolls!), but if you follow my Twitter (@heyquicksilver), I'll talk to you all day long!
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Oh yeah - I'm about to become a Dad for the first time, so if my stuff seems more sentimental than usual - blame it on that!
Finally, I sincerely appreciate every single read I get. So if you're reading this, thank you, you've made me feel like Shakespeare for a day! (see what I mean?)
Latcho Drom,
- CQ
