and because of bruce getting a kick out of it there were things that were brought over from ecw that led to parts of the attitude era and basically the tables and the chairs and the concertos and the coast to coasts then the vandaminators and the PROFANITY_TOKEN furniture and the kendo sticks and the ridiculous amounts of blood and the barbed wire and blah blah blah and that's something that paul's never going to be able to live down he's responsible for a lot of it i on the other hand my hands are clean i don't have to take any the blame for all that PROFANITY_TOKEN because i never overdid blood i did blood in wrestling the same way that it's always been done in main events and big matches and or angles to increase attendance at same and not overboard and ridiculous and with the not only just the blood but also the furniture because the furniture is worse than the blood you can bleed all day long and not hurt yourself you take one wrong bump in that furniture you're PROFANITY_TOKEN so i i don't disagree with the statement of the article there but there was more to it in that paul's usage of violence in general led to a lot more damage being done to the wrestling business than anything that i did and then as we all know ovw because it was based in kentucky with the athletic commission regulations we had no blood which hurt us in some cases on a few big matches but didn't didn't kill us and and if you'd taken the blood out of ecw during its heyday the people would have set seats on fire so it is what it is and that somewhat ties into number two here on the list a way that you and paul heyman are different hardcore wrestling even though jim cornett enjoys the use of blood in big matches he is one of the biggest haters against a hardcore wrestling style cornet loads when wrestlers use too many weapons or turn it into the hardcore genre instead of making it a limited aspect of the performance paul heyman made his reputation as the booker of ecw when booking hardcore match after hardcore match the belief that violent cells was used by haman to make ecw drastically different than wwe and wcw in the mid NUMBER_TOKENs violence does sell horseshit doesn't sell well let's say if you're trying to grow gardens it might sell there's a difference between violence among professional fighters and phony PROFANITY_TOKEN that obviously hurts and at the same time requires cooperation for people to put on a stunt show display and whack each other with blunt instruments there's the difference if you can't figure it out in your own mind i could spend a half an hour more explaining it and it wouldn't make any sense to you anyway because you can't pick up on it but that's the difference and the tattoo the the vile the the kind of violence in ecw also was a turn off to any wider audience or to any more reputable television outlet or to any reputable sponsor they can they can sponsor a ufc match where the two guys in the main event fighting for a championship bust each other up and they're bleeding from the eye bleeding from the head but when you've got guys laying in the ring with tables and barbed
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