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i watched for more than one reason. one of them was for the fact that it was actually hardcore compared to the WWE (or WWF as it was called at the time) and there wasn't the amount of chit chat that there was with WWE (on WWE, they spent more time shooting their mouth off than wrestling) which made the prospect of sitting through a program to watch someone get smashed through a table or smacked over the head with a chair much easier since you didn't have the "Blah Blah Blah, Yadda Yadda Yadda" to sit through before any action.

when i was younger, the violence was the attraction but i can see now that ECW took more skill/pain tolerance since the WWE never went as far as ECW and that meant they had to work harder to survive in the ring (no matter if it was rigged or not, a ECW barbed wire rope match combined with tables and every other type of possible weapon would be a lot harder to endure than any WWE hardcore match)