[1997-01-25-ECW-TV] Taz promo

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Taz cuts the best promo I've ever seen from him, and I appreciate it being compact, considering how most ECW segments run too long.

[soup23]

I was sort of blown away by this promo. Taz didn't seem to have a ton of focus but he did have a big presence and I could see how with interviews like this people were scared shitless about him and talked him up as a badass when he came to the WWF. He lays into a fan and we get some buildup to him vs. Sabu.

[Kevin Ridge]

There were bigger guys in ECW but Taz did look like the last guy you would want to mess with. He talks about a match with Sabu and that he will beat him in five minutes. Crowd does not believe that one and Taz has words for a fan.

[PeteF3]

Styles feebly attempts to get this show back on track after the attack on Dreamer. I remember really liking Taz's promos watching these shows at the time, and they're the one other ECW thing aside from the Douglas/Pitbull halo angle that I wish the '96 Yearbook had more of. Taz calls out the stupidity of ECW fans chanting for Sabu when he's in Japan, "cuz he's so loyal to you guys," then points out that RVD--"that little faggot with the long hair, kissing Baba's ass and all the Jap asses"--is over there, too. In almost anybody else's hands these slurs and swear words would come off as desperate, but Taz makes it work. He then goads the crowd into a "Fuck Sabu" chant then calls them out for doing it. Really good job by Taz of projecting the aura of a badass while in no way coming off to the ECW fanbase as somebody worth cheering.

[KB8]

I thought some of his content came off a bit lame, but I agree that he projected an aura of dude you don't really want to mess with pretty well. The crux of his point seemed to be fuck Sabu but fuck the fans as well, even the ones who agree with him, because they haven't earned the right to talk shit about any wrestler the way he has. Fuck everybody, basically. But Sabu especially. 

[Superstar Sleeze]

On 2/16/2019 at 6:20 PM, KB8 said:

I thought some of his content came off a bit lame, but I agree that he projected an aura of dude you don't really want to mess with pretty well. The crux of his point seemed to be fuck Sabu but fuck the fans as well, even the ones who agree with him, because they haven't earned the right to talk shit about any wrestler the way he has. Fuck everybody, basically. But Sabu especially. 

In fairness, he did create the "Fuck The World" title. So it was pretty on brand for Taz. Fun fact: I thought the acronym FTW (For The Win) which was popular in the Mid-00s stood for Fuck The World because of Taz and I was confused for a good couple months.