10 Wrestlers From ECW’s Final Year You Totally Don’t Remember

4. Red Dogg

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WWE fans may recall Rodney Mack's time as part of Teddy Long's 'Thuggin & Buggin' Enterprises' stable on Raw back in 2003. Before that, Mack was known as Red Dogg and had a short stay in the original ECW as part of Da Baldies faction.

It was '15 matches' short.

Dogg was the kind of wrestler that needed some polish from day one. Maybe that's why Paul Heyman put him in a thug faction who exclusively worked weapons-laced brawls, and it might be why he wasn't booked again following his house show loss to Steve Corino on 21 October 2000. Or, perhaps ECW's all-too-familiar financial struggles got in the way of his progress - who knows?

WWE picked Red Dogg up when ECW folded and tried their able best to make something of him. He'll be remembered for that more than his extreme-ly brief flirtation with a certain hardcore promotion from Philly.

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