9 Worst Botches In ECW History

The ECW faithful were well known for bringing in their own odd little bits of bric-a-brac to hand to the wrestlers in order to give their favourites an advantage. In fact, there was a store next to the ECW arena that did a brisk trade in cheap kitchenware on nights when there was a show on.

The performers would become used to being handed weird items: china dolls, potted plants, crutches, everything up to and including the kitchen sink. Mick Foley, who wrestled for ECW under his Cactus Jack nom de guerre, vividly recalls being handed a two-man kayak to smash over an opponent’s head… but the most dangerous foreign object was a little more prosaic than that.

In a Texas Death Match against The Sandman at the Double Tables event on February 4th 1995, Jack was engaged in a war with his old enemy that was nearly ended early when he hit him over the head with a cheap aluminium frying pan that had been handed to him by a fan at ringside. That’s because it wasn’t a cheap aluminum frying pan but a heavy cast-iron skillet… in the heat of the moment, Jack didn’t check on the object he’d been passed.

The Sandman was concussed, but finished the match as planned after the third of three DDTs onto the concrete… he was out for two weeks afterwards, but his return fed nicely into the return of a heel Terry Funk in an electrifying post-main event two-on-one beatdown.