In this free preview clip of the second episode (of two) in our deep dive Patreon series on the post-TNN death spiral of ECW, Kris and David look at an unsigned letter that Wade Keller ran in the Pro Wrestling Torch in May 2001. A couple months before Wade would accuse Paul Heyman of sending numerous burner email accounts to fabricate demand for ECW joining the WWF’s WCW invasion angle, he get what reads like…well…a letter from a Paul Heyman burner account. And it’s very, very obvious. If you like this level of peak Paul Heyman shenanigans, then you’ll love how this story develops in the full version of the episode for Between The Sheets Patreon members.

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Full show description:

2021 is *still* the 20th anniversary of American professional wrestling changing forever, and you know what that means: The second and final part of our deep dive into the death of ECW! With ECW having no shows booked, Paul Heyman goes to the WWF as an announcer and creative team member…while also forgetting to tell inDemand that the scheduled Living Dangerously pay-per-view event wasn’t happening. ECW’s parent company, HHG Corp, files for bankruptcy, leading to a fuller understanding of the company’s finances…but conspicuously makes no mention of ECW’s intellectual property or receivables due from their ongoing home video deals with Pioneer, Delta, and/or RF Video. Wade Keller gets a very conspicuous unsigned letter defending Heyman…and then numerous wrestling websites start getting a deluge of emails demanding ECW be added to the WWF’s WCW invasion angle. ECW does, in fact, get added to the angle…pissing off the bankruptcy trustee and motivating Wade Keller and Dave Meltzer to point to Heyman as the person behind the aforementioned deluge of emails.

There could be no more appropriate final episode to the ECW on TNN/Death of ECW series than this one. It is Paul Heyman at his Paul Heyman-est. Enjoy!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 February 2001 (ECW in limbo)

0:44:02 March 2001 (Paul Heyman debuts on Raw)

1:25:18 April 2001 (HHG Corp files for bankruptcy)

2:02:17 May-June 2001

2:18:39 July 2001 (ECW joins the WWF’s WCW invasion angle)

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