10 Best ECW Champions Ever, Ranked By Their Entrance

The pageantry of ECW was quite underrated when looking back at how Paul Heyman chose to get his vision of wrestling across. Most fans think of WWEs massive entrances or WCWs special moments during their respective runs of the 1990s, but ECW did more with less. Entrances felt like part of the overall show with

The pageantry of ECW was quite underrated when looking back at how Paul Heyman chose to get his vision of wrestling across. Most fans think of WWE’s massive entrances or WCW’s special moments during their respective runs of the 1990s, but ECW did more with less. Entrances felt like part of the overall show with fans caring during those moments in the show as much as actual matches.

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Heyman used unlicensed theme songs that could have got him in serious financial troubles, but he avoided it with the audience loving wrestlers more or less due to that part of the job. Certain wrestlers had unique mannerisms or ideas to have them stand apart. The following ECW World Champions will be ranked to see who had the best overall ECW entrances.

10 Terry Funk

ECW treated Terry Funk like the absolute legend he was when getting him to work for the smaller promotion. Both parties benefited immensely with Funk being the biggest overall name on the ECW roster due to his past success and ECW giving him the chance to have a big comeback run.

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The entrance of Funk always worked to perfection with the audience going wild upon hearing he’d be coming out next. Memorable entrance theme songs of “Desperado” and “Fanfare for the Common Man” became synonymous with him. Funk even had a branding iron during some of his entrances to put everything over the top.

9 Sabu

The opening sounds of Sabu’s entrance made the audience love his entrance as a familiar song that fit his character. Sabu was the most unpredictable ECW wrestler, but that worked to make fans more excited about his stints as ECW World Champion.

ECW sold the presentation of Sabu with his entrance walk featuring an intense look and a rapid pace to the ring. Sabu felt like a wrestler that just wanted to fight as much as possible with everything else secondary. This part of his character led to his entrance feeling more special as such a top attraction.

8 Bam Bam Bigelow

An underrated ECW entrance saw Bam Bam Bigelow picking the perfect entrance theme song. “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses made sure the audience would be fully into him with such excitement playing on the speakers.

Bigelow had a tremendous singles push winning the ECW Championship and turning face against heel ally Shane Douglas. Paul Heyman viewed Bigelow as one of the most underrated top stars in the industry and tried to spotlight him that way from entrances to matches.

7 Justin Credible

Later years of ECW saw new names getting a chance in the main event picture after most top stars left for WWE and WCW. Justin Credible ended up being a strong player for ECW in the final years, especially during his ECW World Championship reign. Francine betrayed Tommy Dreamer to help Credible defeat him for the ECW World Championship.

The entrance of Credible improved with Francine at his side since she was among the most over stars in the company. Justin developed a stronger interest and felt like a credible world champion outside of just his name. The kendo stick weapon of Credible with him during each entrance added more fun for consistent interest.

6 Mike Awesome

The entrance theme song of Mike Awesome was a huge reason why ECW fans fell in love with him. Awesome had a cool song with lyrics about him and his wrestling moves that worked perfectly ahead of matches that featured high-impact moves of chair shots and table spots.

Paul Heyman booked Awesome like a star after his success in Japan impressed the mad genius. Awesome was a great ECW World Champion until the controversial departure leaving as champ for WCW. However, that shouldn’t take away from Awesome having an all-time great ECW entrance.

5 Taz

Taz and Paul Heyman deserve a lot of credit alike for his portrayal as one of the most intimidating and badass wrestlers in the industry while hiding that he was one of the shortest at a time when that could have worked against him. Everything about Taz’s presentation sold his character even more in ECW.

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There were a few songs used by Taz before settling on the perfect “War Machine” theme by legendary rock band KISS with a few changes to fit him. Taz pacing to the ring slowly with a black towel over his head felt like Mike Tyson before a big fight while the ECW fans lost their mind in excitement.

4 Tommy Dreamer

ECW fans developed a special connection with Tommy Dreamer to make his entrances feel special. Dreamer came out to the theme song of “Man in the Box” by Alice in Chains as one of the most popular ECW entrance themes in company history.

Fans loved slapping high five with Dreamer as the song played before his big matches. Few entrances felt as important as Dreamer since it represented the old school vibe of making sure everyone in the first row gets some interaction, but the theme song put it over the top even more.

3 Raven

The heel rival of Tommy Dreamer was just as important to ECW from the villain side. Raven was the ECW World Champion when many felt the promotion was at their best both growing in size and putting on their highest quality of shows.

“Come Out and Play” by The Offspring worked tremendously effective for Raven despite having a darker vibe. Raven had the opposite entrance of Dreamer giving no love to the audience and sitting in the ring. ECW made Raven feel like a bigger star than any other promotion due to his presentation.

2 Shane Douglas

ECW made Shane Douglas one of the top stars by always having him in the ECW World Championship picture. Douglas held the title for a total of 874 days across four different title reigns. However, the presentation of Douglas was his strongest suit more than the matches or even the promos with the theme song of “Perfect Strangers” by Deep Purple.

Francine turning heel to become Douglas’ manager put his act over the top with the crowd reacting to her being a part of the entrance. The era of Triple Threat faction improved the act with Bam Bam Bigelow and Chris Candido being part of Douglas and Francine’s entrance.

1 The Sandman

There is no arguing with the top spot of The Sandman having the best entrance in ECW history of all former ECW World Champions. Sandman used the “Enter Sandman” theme song by Metallica as Paul Heyman attempted to avoid a lawsuit every time he made his entrance.

Fans fell in love with The Sandman partially due to the act of drinking beer with the audience on the way to the ring with his kendo stick in hand as the entire song played. Sandman fell into the trouble of never being as effective without the song since his entrance was so pivotal to the act.

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