In its day, ECW was one of the most over-the-top wrestling promotions around, providing fans with some of the most violent matches in the history of sports entertainment. As a result, it didn’t take long for WWE to snap up the company’s assets when it filed for bankruptcy in 2001, while also signing up some of the promotion’sbest and most talented wrestlersin the process.
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Some of these ECW wrestlers went on to have long and successful careers with WWE, and, as a result, earned themselves a place inWWE 2K23’s roster. Thankfully, those who didn’t can still be added to the game thanks to the efforts of someWWE 2K23players. The best custom Superstars based on former ECW wrestlers show that although the promotion may be long gone, it is far from forgotten.
Bubba Ray Dudley
Bubba Ray Dudley has wrestled for a number of different promotions throughout his career, but it was with ECW that he really made a name for himself. Together with D-Von, he won the ECW World Tag Team Championships an incredible eight times, helping to cement his status as one ofthe industry’s all-time greats.
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D-Von Dudley
The other half of the Dudley Boyz, D-Von was also an accomplished wrestler with an impressive array of accolades to his name. This all culminated with him and Bubba Ray being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, with the pair joining otherpopular Superstars like Goldberg and Mark Henryas part of the class of 2018.
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Lance Storm
Lance Storm may bebest known for his time with the WWE, but it was with ECW that he first broke onto the scene. After joining the promotion in 1997, he formed formidable partnerships with Chris Candido and Justin Credible, winning the ECW World Tag Team Championships on three separate occasions. In the years since he’s won plenty of other Championships and has also acted in a few movies.
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Raven
Like manyother Superstars, Raven bounced around between promotions at the start of his career. It was with ECW that he first started turning heads though, managing to claim the ECW World Heavyweight Championship not once but twice. He also held the ECW World Tag Team Championship on four separate occasions, teaming up with a few different wrestlers in order to do so.
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Sabu
Sabu was a monster of a man and one ofthe most intimidating Superstars in the ECW roster. He won just about all there was to win while with the promotion, including the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, the ECW World Television Championship, and the ECW World Tag Team Championship. In doing so, he became the second of just three ECW Triple Crown Champions.
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The Sandman
After a brief stint with Tri-State Wrestling, James “The Sandman” Fullington made his way to the ECW. There, he became one ofthe industry’s all-time greats, becoming a five-time champion in the process. Sadly, though he did spend a bit of time with the WWE after ECW filed for bankruptcy, he was never able to recapture his former glory and now wrestles on the independent circuit.
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Spike Dudley
Spike Dudley was nowhere near as popular as his storyline brothers, but that’s not to say that he didn’t still make a pretty big impression on sports entertainment fans. Like Bubba Ray and D-Von, he held the ECW World Tag Team Championship on several occasions before eventually going on to specialize as a solo fighter at the WWE.
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Tazz
Like Mikey Whipwreck and Sabu before him, Tazz was an ECW Triple Crown Champion. Interestingly, he actually won the first of the two Championships needed to become one during his first year or so with the promotion, but was made to wait another five years before getting his hands on the coveted ECW World Heavyweight Championship in January of 1999.
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Terry Funk
Terry Funk started wrestling professionally in 1965, winning numerous accolades in both the Florida and Japanese circuits before finding himself with ECW in the mid-nineties. There, at the age of 53, he was able to pick up the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, making him one of the oldest Superstars to do so. Funk also had a semi-successful acting career, making him one of manygreat wrestlers who have appeared in movies.
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Tommy Dreamer
Tommy Dreamer started at ECW in late 1993 and it did not take long for him to make a name for himself. During his first year with the production, he fought several memorable matches against the Sandman, and a two-year-long feud with Raven quickly followed. As well as appearing in some ofthe best wrestling matches of all time, Dreamer was able to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship while with promotion and also held the ECW World Tag Team Championship on three separate occasions.
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