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We goofed again!!!

Posted: Nov 6th 2006 By: mikeiles

Back in September in the "Stump The Staff" section of the site we were asked the following question:

Which of the following never appeared in ECW?
Jerry Lawler
Kerry Von Erich
Tully Blanchard
Terry Funk

Associate Editor Mike Iles answered the question as follows:

Let's see...

Funk is a 2-time former ECW Heavyweight Champion.

Lawler teamed with Sabu, Rob Van Dam, & Bill Alphonso in a feud with Tommy Dreamer & Sandman

I remember hearing about Blanchard had a one shot show with them in the Eastern Championship Wrestling days.

So the correct answer is Kerry Von Erich

Von Erich died in February 1993 and ECW got its start as Eastern Championship Wrestling sometime in early 1992 (Jimmy Snuka became the 1st ECW Heavyweight Champion in April 1992). So unless he snuck in a quick ECW appearance it has to be Kerry.


Upon further investigation we found this:

Shortly before his death, Kerry Von Erich worked one match against Salvatore Bellomo for the promotion (then owned by Tod Gordon and known as Eastern Championship Wrestling) at the Radisson Hotel in Philadelphia; depending on which version of the show's results you're reading, either Kerry won, or the bout went to a double DQ. The 1/23/93 card was the last show, or one of the last shows, that the group ran before making ECW Arena (formerly Viking Hall, now the New Alhambra Arena) its permanent home base.

Despite published claims to the contrary, this was not the last match Kerry worked before his suicide; that would have been a GWF tag bout at the Sportatorium on 2/12/93, which Kerry and Chris Adams lost via DQ to Johnny Mantell and Black Bart.

So congratulations goes out to badstreetusa because he did, although only temporarily, stump the Oklafan staff. But then again there is no correct answer so did he really stump us?