The original ECW fans were strange, strange people. Not content with the fact that games consoles, broken glass, barbed wire, fire chairs and oversized 90s mobile phones were regularly being employed to maim their in-ring heroes, one group decided to bring a freakin kayak. Apparently, Mick Foley (in the guise of Cactus Jack), felt obliged to incorporate the kayak into his match because the fans had gone to such lengths to get it there (by car, presumably). So yeah, youll probably have to go some to top a two-man kayak as the weirdest weapon ever used in a pro wrestling match! When all is said and done, wrestling is a weird thing to like. Perhaps when Shakespeare wrote that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy he was looking to the future, Nostradamus style, and watching a circa-1990s ECW match, complete with Nintendo games console, stolen street signs, old vinyl records and two-man kayaks being used to gain pinfalls. All while the utterly mental fans roared in approval... He wasnt, of course, but for the sake of argument, lets pretend he was.
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