>>12552599ECW was never really a "deathmatch" company as the concept is known now, where it's far more inspired by what they've been doing in Japan for 40+ years.
Sure they had guys who had wrestled that style in Japan, but while they were busy with their glorified hardcore matches the deathmatch scene in Japan was only progressing and advancing beyond the usual barbed wire thumbtack stuff that was so common in America.
