ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling Part 1 (Wrestling Book Club Episode 10)
Release Date: 12/31/2014
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In the last episode of Wrestling Book Club, my mom and I discuss three ECW-related documentaries: Barbed Wire City, The Rise and Fall of ECW, and Ladies and Gentlemen, My Name is Paul Heyman. We mainly talk about Paul Heyman, but what else is new.
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February's episode will be the second part of our exploration of ECW and will cover the WWE ECW documentary and the Paul Heyman documentary. It will also be the last episode of Wrestling Book Club, as my mom and I have decided to switch over to a movie podcast. Thank you for listening, as always.
Our email address is [email protected] and our website is wrestlingbookclub.com.