E-C-W!...E-C-W!...
At last, the real story of ECW's rise is told!
For anyone who doesn't know, Extreme Championship Wrestling was the revolutionary, industry redefining wrestling federation of the 90s, and its founder and owner Tod Gordon is telling that story for the first time. Gordon went from local Philadelphia businessman to the third most influential man in wrestling as ECW became the fiery challenger to the moribund WWE and WCW. ECW’s young roster featured inventive risk-taking talent that both major federations rapidly sought to emulate but could never duplicate. Chants of “E-C-W!” rang out in wrestling arenas across all federations for decades.
In Tod is God, so named for a chant ECW’s fans created to honor its founder, Gordon chronicles each step in the company’s meteoric rise to prominence, as well as the elements that led to his removing himself from the company before its demise. Gordon’s partnership with ECW booker Paul Heyman made for magical TV and in-ring moments before fracturing under its own weight. Both a blessing and curse, the friendship between Tod and Paul was the once-in-a-lifetime bond responsible for so many of history’s greatest teams, bands, and partners. To date, Gordon has stayed silent on the causes for the split and, by doing so, assumed blame for it.
Tod is God is the closest readers can get to reliving ECW’s ride to the top, complete with insider stories involving Sandman, Sabu, Terry Funk, Cactus Jack, and the biggest stars of the company. Tod grants readers uncensored access to locker rooms, hotel rooms, and car rides and lays bare how ECW’s reputation as the drug fueled, sexually decadent, ultra-violent federation of revolutionaries came to be. From the triumphs and breakthroughs to the frustrations and tragedies, readers will be living it beside the man that started it all.
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