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Whereas the basic east coast hardcore wrestling promotion ECW is mostly related to Paul Heyman, it was really a person named Tod Gordon who first based the corporate earlier than later promoting it to Heyman. Earlier than it was often known as Excessive Championship Wrestling, ECW stood for Jap Championship Wrestling and was a part of the NWA. In a brand new memoir releasing later this month, titled “Tod is God,” Gordon is ready to inform his aspect of the hardcore promotion’s origin story. Just a few weeks forward of its launch, the ebook is receiving some early compliments from figures inside wrestling media.

“The true, uncooked and unvarnished journey of an excessive influencer who modified your entire trajectory of the skilled wrestling business,” Mike Johnson of PWInsider stated. “The letters ECW by no means stop to fascinate followers and Tod Gordon lastly reveals all of the inside workings and machinations that got here with the creation, rise and fall of essentially the most influential wrestling firm of the Nineties.”

Justin Barrasso of Sports activities Illustrated known as the ebook “a must-read story detailing the colourful historical past of ECW.” Alfred Boima Konuwa III of Forbes and Dave Scherer of PWInsider additionally praised the memoir, with Scherer crediting Gordon as being accountable for WWF’s “perspective period” within the late Nineties.

“Tod is God: The Licensed Story of How I Created Excessive Championship Wrestling” comes out on July 25, and will likely be accessible both as a hardcover or an e-book. Sean Oliver is credited as a co-author, and the ebook incorporates a ahead from ECW veteran Terry Funk.