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Philadelphia is one of the most historic cities in the country.  I happened to be in Philadelphia last weekend and I hit all of the major historic sites:
1.  The Rocky steps
2.  Pat’s, home of the best cheesesteak (Geno’s cheesesteaks just don’t compare)
3.  The ECW Arena

There was also a rumor that there was some famous bell but I heard that there was a crack in it so I decided it wasn’t worth seeing.

The Saturday Arena show was pretty good, especially when you consider how many guys didn’t even wrestle a match (Jerry Lynn, RVD, Sabu, Storm, Credible, Sandman, Rhino and Guido).  The highlight of the evening was easily the Super Crazy v. Tajiri Mexican Death Match.  Just when you think you’ve seen everything out of these two they put on their best match yet.  Granted it’s still January, but this could be the match of the year.  I can’t remember a match that I enjoyed so much the first time that I saw it.  Hopefully they will put it on the TNN show this week.  It’ll be interesting to see how the match comes across on TV.

If you have never been to the Arena before you should make a point of going sometime.  It’s truly a unique experience that you can’t get anywhere else.  It’s well worth a long distance travel, especially when you combine it with cheesesteaks (there’s a reason Philly is the fattest city in the country).

I took a look at the current results of the ECWnews.com year end awards and I’m quite surprised some of the results.  I knew Francine was this popular but I didn’t realize that it was to this degree.  She’s leading both Manager of the Year and ECW’s Biggest Draw.  I would have had her no higher that 3rd in both of those categories.  The other surprise is how poorly Jim Molineaux is doing in Extreme Referee of the Year.  This is a guy who had his nose broken in the ring.  How many other officials can say that?  If that’s not extreme I don’t know what is.  Most of the other polls are about what I expected.  If you have not done so yet be sure to vote in these awards.  One vote actually can make a difference.  And don’t try to rig the vote by voting more than once............I tried it, it doesn’t work.

That’s quite a mess that they have down there in Turnerland.  It’s good to know that the more things change in WCW the more they stay the same.  Who knows how everything will turn out but I would love to see the 7 disgruntled wrestlers make their way to Philly.  Has anyone else noticed that of the 7 guys who asked for their release, 6 were former ECW wrestlers (Kidman being the exception).  Obviously it’s not likely that many of them will make it into ECW but it would be nice to see them return (although I could do without Konnan), especially Beniot, getting him would be quite the coup.  It’ll be interesting to see if Shane Douglas would make his way back to ECW if he was released and didn’t get an offer from Vinnie Mac.  I think he would be a great fit as the head of a group of he, Credible and Storm, maybe even the new triple threat but there’s probably been too many bridges burned for that to happen however.