Is it true ECW is responsible for kicking off the attitude era and the NWO?

[Pool_Shark]

Im just watching old videos and damn it’s something I never thought about.

 

[Jcotton1]

Hell yeah. ECW would always bring it. They put the hardcore in table matches. I was supposed to be sleep and my brother would be up watching ECW.

 

[Lurk Angle]

Pretty much

Cokeboy took all his ideas from there

ATM Eric stole most his discard from there

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

NWO was inspired by an angle in Japan

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

nWo...no

attitude era...yes

 

[prophecypro]

You can make the argument for sure

 

[OSUBaneBrowns]

ECW was around before the attitude era but didn't blow up until after the nWo became popular.

 

[LiveFromLondon]

nWo...no

attitude era...yes

 

[Hey_zeus]

nWo...no

attitude era...yes

This

 

[avon barksdale]

Shane look at ecw and brought the ideal to Vince and they jack it and put money behind it for a little while...it was in the raise and fall of ecw doc

 

[R=G]

Shock stuff but I never was into that shyt.

 

[HYDRO]

Id say the Attitude Era was just as much influenced by ECW as it was crash tv


Maybe ECW was just crash tv

 

[Jmare007]

Bischoff has said in the past he saw Heisei Ishingun in New Japan and got the idea for the NWO. Granted, he for sure gave the idea other wrinkles because Koshinaka never "took over" New Japan and nor him or his stablemates were even close the stardom of Hall, Nash and Hogan.

 

[Norrin Radd]

There’s a reason Vince made ECW a footnote in the latest specials on the monday night war

 

[Breh Obama]

There will never be anything like prime ECW in wrestling ever again