We are more than 24 hours removed from a momentous Wrestlemania. With Wrestling’s biggest show once again in the books, we bring you another edition of “Remember When.”
Do you remember when Brian Pillman wrestled a giant pencil?
It was back in his days in ECW in 1996, right after he was let go from his WCW contract and after his famous ECW promo. You know, the one where he described the difference between a mark and a smart mark?
After his return to ECW (he made is ECW debut back in 1994 teaming with Shane Douglas against Ron Simmons and 2 Cold Scorpio), he began making further appearances for the promotion including one segment where he took on a giant pencil.
It begins with Pillman in what seems to be his house, I’m not sure, but it is a house nonetheless. He’s talks about the “Booker man” wanting Pillman to put the pencil over and then the match ensues. As the match goes on, Pillman looks at the camera and says “I always end up fighting with a pencil” before putting a beatdown to said pencil.
The Loose Cannon Gimmick may have started in WCW, but it was in ECW where the gimmick took off to the legendary status that we have known and love to this day, in my opinion.
I heard Pillman was scheduled to face Shane Douglas in ECW, but when he suffered his horrendous car crash and shattered his ankle, it never happened. To me, that’s a shame because I would have loved to see how his style of Wrestling would have been received in the land of Extreme.
Here’s the epic encounter of Brian Pillman vs. The Giant Pencil
This was before I had even heard of ECW. Wow.
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Brian Pillman was a crazy son of a bitch!
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He was an AWESOME crazy son of a bitch!
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That pencil is less stiff than Khali.
Loved Pillman. Played the part like a real actor.
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And the pencil can sell better than Cena AND Hogan! hahaha
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LOL! Wish there was a like button on here.
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Hey Ray! What are the chances of getting a like button on here? 🙂
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Like a ‘like’ button for comments?
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@Ray yes!
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YES!
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But I’d rather fight the pencil than Hogan or Cena.
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It’s funny that you wrote this piece about Pillman, because I just got my copy back of the Pillman dvd that was released a few years ago. I let my best friend borrow it over two years ago (along with the Heroes of World Class) and he finally gave it back to me when we met up to watch Mania on Sunday. I’m about to pop that sucker into my player right now and relive the controversy! Lol
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Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
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Daniel Bryan vs. Flyin Brian Pillman. That’s a dream match!
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Sadly that’ll never happen 😦
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In the future.
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@Jeremy – YES! Okay great idea. I’ll try to add a like button.
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Lol – that was incredible. He really put the pencil over by selling that choke near the beginning. What a man.
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This is ridiculous. The jokes write themselves 🙂
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*rimshot*
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