Simon needs to review more of the original ECW PPVs on Retro Ups and Downs.

The tag match between RVD and Sabu VS Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki at Heatwave '98 was amazing!

Lance Storm is oneof the most underrated wrestlers of all time. He's also a really nice man irl.

if you get your mitts on the 1996-2000 weekly shows, binge watch them too. You'll find gems there: Dudley Boys, Joel Gertner Promos, Sabu hitting his marks perfectly, there you'll japan women's matches; it made me a better fan back in the day

Tanaka vs Awesome on NTR '99 is a total banger

I went to Anarchy Rulz 99 in Villa Park, IL. Shit was just...other worldly. An ECW crowd was something else man.

Jazz wrestled intergnder matches and rhino was great in his run as dual champion

Barely Legal also had the 3-Way Dance between Terry Funk, The Sandman and Stevie Richards, the ECW World Heavyweight Championship Match that immediately followed between Raven and Terry Funk. And the Michinoku Pro 6-Man Tag Team Match.

Sid's appearance at Living Dangerously was a riot

Hey now, the Michinoku Pro six-man tag match from Barely Legal was one of the best things ECW ever did, so it has that at least.

Dudley Boys, Heatwave’99 that’s all I have to say

Id give anything to be in the late 90's again

I have a dvd of a house show i went to in 99 that I still watch to this day, so many great matches in a small venue so it got up close and personal.

Simon miler had an infectious level of enthusiasm and the amount of joy he expresses when talking about wrestling really is second to no one!!! Keep upping that up and downing those downs my friend!!!! You’re doing gods work!!

I love your choice of thumbnail. I have that 8X10 autographed.

The Kash and Money match was good because it was different than the rest of the card, unlike the modern mainstream indie style where every match is the exact same and everyone does all the same stuff

ECW November To Remember 1997 RVD walks around the ring to his Pantera song entrance doing his thumbs and talking smack... He then proceeds to say, "This is Me... Doing my shit... The shit I do so well..." (turns to get in the ring, turns back to the camera) "Sean, stop stealing my shit." Yes He was talking to me Yes, I've apologized Yes, I still kept using his 360 legdrop...

Put some damn respect on the Michinoku Pro 6-Man tag at Barely Legal! That match is so fun. One of my favorites.

RIP ECW

I think is was a December to dismember or w/e, 97, maybe? When it starts with terry funk coming out talking about how he beats his wife and kids and he will debut his new “double back flip finishing move.” And puts himself through a table. I have tried to fucking find it online and it’s not on the network or peacock or anything anymore. Still to this day the hardest I’ve ever laughed at wrestling and I loved it

I have to disagree about Barely Legal. I remember the hype leading up and watching it at the time. It was a great time to be a wrestling fan.

U left a word out of number 5: "Barely" Cuz I do agree with u, and surprisingly he and Cyrus the Virus are a very good, underrated all time duo, Joey solo is better than almost any VINCEinURear-era duo

Top 10 ways Simon complains about ecw. 😂❤🎉

Do retro ups and downs for wwe ecw last episode

I miss ECW. I went to a lot of these shows and many others

Can’t wait to see Jerry Lynn tomorrow on dynamite

Kid Cash & EZ Money, how did I not spot this at the time! They were being set up to be a tag-team: Cash Money!!

I lived and breathed ecw in the late 90s dam i miss it

All of Living Dangerously 1998.

Simon loves this

Rip mantuar no video on him?

If only you did a top ten things you learned from binge watching Whatculture

At 3:23 that dude in the bottom looks like big John Mccarthy

you hea that guys simon had a "mandeller effect"

WCW ran the Japanese women’s matches, sucks that they were still treated like a joke despite the talent they brought

Some of the opening matches are very skippable. Anything with Amish Roadkill, Danny Doring, Da Baldies, C.W. Anderson and the like I just skip over.

7:14 - 7:19 AMEN, brother....AYYYYY-MEHHHHHN

So Raven is Calypso gotcha

I just realized thet carny p.o.s. was Cyrus.

how does one access these old ppvs

So Barely legal wasn’t good because of the diversity of the matches on the card?

3:09 IS that Tony Khan??

Nahhh Barely legal is a great ppv

The mere mention of Tony Khan is ridiculous.

3:06 no just no! You can’t help yourself but to suck up to TK 🙄

ECW taking too many shots at WCW hmmmm? 🤔 Seems like TK also took inspiration from that since AEW takes too many shots at WWE that 90% of AEW promos is just about WWE referencing

You know what’s shocking? Goddamn Matt Damon. Keeps bringing me here. Big fan.

ECW died because they let Taz leave and Paul E was a Vince McMahon mark. Image Barley Leagely 2000 Unfeated World Champion Taz vs Unfeated TV champion RVD . That was your money match.

Anyone else notice he countdowns 10,-8-8-,6-5-4-3-2-1

E c dub

Joey Styles alone >AEW's entire cc booth

Lmao please don’t compare Tiny Con to Paul Heyman. He couldn’t book a compelling storyline if his life depended on it.

That's the thing you noticed about and complain about that there's was no women's matches in ECW at the time? You realize especially at the time women's matches were God awful and still most are today with the exception of a few.

Tony khan...hide weaknesses and showcase strengths? Check cleared this week Simon? 😂 total nonsense

when i watch early ecw stuff i really cant understand how styles commentry gets praise. this was in almost everymatch just the calling of the move. he was not talking in full sentences. "ellbow drop... dropkick with autority... bodyslam...".. cant remember if this changed at some point.. but nah. not a fan of him

Yea no women’s matches…added to why it was good

😆 can you hang from aew brass...... well you know. Come on man. This is a pure crap list. Barely legal barely worth it? So much is wrong with this. Ecw was literally do was aew is now. Literally with everything . aew just has more money.

I was never privvy to ECW in it's heyday, & I'm not a "Paul heyman guy" I do believe he had a vision of what wrestling could really be

This fool said Tony Khan knows how to push the strengths and hide the weaknesses? LMFAO Now WhatCulture is on the never watch that trash again list. I don’t need bias wrestling coverage.