11 Best Lights Out Moments In Wrestling

ECW used the lights out trope more often than most, but the most effective employment of it came at Wrestlepalooza 1997. The lights went out on three separate occasions, each time building to a moment that would send the ECW faithful into frenzy more rabid than usual.

Tommy Dreamer had finally defeated his greatest rival, Raven, in a match he simply had to win otherwise he was gone from ECW forever (or at least forever in wrestling terms). Dreamer was successful, but after the bell things were about to go south for the Innovator of Violence.

Rob Van Dam was the first man to appear out of the blackness, followed by his tag team partner and fellow villain Sabu. When the lights went out a third time, lord only knew who else was going to appear to put a wrench in Dreamer's moment.

When they came back up a shockwave went through the building, as none other than Jerry 'The King' Lawler was in the ring. Lawler was one of the voices of the WWF, a man who was the anti-ECW in every possible way, a poster boy for what ECW stood against.

Here he was, in their house, lording it over their hero. 'This bingo hall should be made of toilet paper, because there's nothing in it but sh*t he screamed.

When ECW got it right, boy did they get it right.