WWE HALL OF FAME: THE ECW WING

Even if you weren't a direct fan of Paul Heyman's extreme vision, you should respect it enough to realize how crucial ECW was to the industry, most notably, during the infamous Monday Night Wars. It was ECW that truly planted the seeds for WWE's "Attitude Era". Both WCW and WWE ripped ECW off of both direction/story lines as well as its stars. Only difference was, Vince McMahon compensated Paul Heyman by putting him on his payroll before eventually one day buying the hardcore company. Vince also tried and succeeded in making Heyman's guys into stars, where Eric Bischoff did things like buying out ECW Champion Mike Awesome to jump ship, only to then bury the late superstar with lame character and story lines.
That's the past, and many have enjoyed what Paul Heyman has done within the WWE with his various stints with WWE. Superstars like Rob Van Dam, Tazz, and others are future WWE Hall Of Famers just based on their runs in the WWE alone. Some didn't really have much of a career within the WWE, for various reasons didn't quite make it in WWE, but were superstars in the original ECW. However, as great as some have been, they tend to get lost in the sea that is the WWE roster over the years, so to bring them back to the forefront, we'll imagine that there is an ECW Wing in the WWE Hall Of Fame. Here are a list of ECW Legends who deserve to be a part of the WWE Hall Of Fame: ECW Wing;

Rob Van Dam

Mr. Monday Night is probably the one wrestler who made the best transition from ECW to WWE. After years of seemingly being stuck at mid-card winning countless WWE Intercontinental Championships, RVD became the first person to hold both the WWE and ECW Championships at the same time. In a business where we never say never, who knows, perhaps The Whole F'n Show will be hitting a Five-Star Frog Splash for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship before he closes out his career.

Tazz

The Human Suplex Machine may be sitting behind the announce booth, and currently doing so in TNA, there is no doubt that Tazz deserves to be in the WWE Hall Of Fame. Especially if we were to see an ECW Wing. His in ring career may be over, but Tazz still has some value in the world of wrestling outside of commentary. Who better to manage or simply endorse a new age version of himself? He did so with Samoa Joe, and although made sense, Joe was already an established name in TNA. WWE has loads of new guys who could use this to propel themselves. Alexander Rusev looks like a giant version of Tazz.

The Dudley Boys

"Devon! Get the tables!" are words the crowd would still scream along with Bubba Ray (now Bully) and Devon if they re-entered a WWE ring. And of course would be followed by a massive pop from the crowd as someone went through the table. Bubba is doing his own thing in TNA right now, but a Dudley Boys reunion in the WWE could happen one day. If only briefly like the New Age Outlaws did recently. Other than RVD, the Dudley's transitioned from ECW to WWE very nicely. Even being one of the three teams to pioneer Tables, Ladders, and Chairs (TLC) match, and being synonymous with both Tables and Tag-Team wrestling in pro-wrestling. And that screams Hall Of Fame worthy.

Sabu

Sabu was never really cut out to make it in the WWE, and that isn't a knock on him. It is the constraints of the WWE tend to hinder some performers from doing what they do in the ring. It is out of safety that they do this of course, but this is the Houdini Of Hardcore, and his legend was built on leaving safety in the dressing room. Plus, remember how Chris Benoit's nickname was The Crippler? It was Sabu's neck that broke to create that one. So if there is to be an ECW Wing or even just an ECW Class within WWE's Hall Of Fame, The Modern Day Kamikaze known as Sabu is a front runner in being the top of that class.

Tommy Dreamer

The one ECW Original who made the best out of WWE's attempt at relaunching ECW. It was there, which Tommy Dreamer dropped the WWE mid-card status and returned to mirroring his glory days in the original ECW, being at the top. If ever a resurgence of hardcore or within the WWE, don't be surprised to see Dreamer leading a new group of extreme talent into the forefront. Also, wouldn't be surprised to hear he became a trainer at the new WWE Developmental Facility preparing the next generation of talent. May only be a Dream, but Tommy is Hall Of Fame worthy.

Terry Funk

Yes, he is already in the WWE Hall Of Fame, but Flair has two rings, and we are talking about an ECW wing here. He should have pehaps walked away from the business or found a different way to be a part of it all, but regardless, Funk had some of his greatest matches under extreme rules. Both in ECW and even WWE as Chainsaw Charlie. Pretty sure guys like Mick Foley and even the next guy on this list would agree that Terry Funk is very much worthy on being inducted a second time based on his Hardcore accomplishments, which include winning the ECW Championship.

Paul Heyman

His client, Brock Lesner, is the 1 in 21-1. His client, Brock Lesner, conquered The Streak. Oh, and he was the brains behind ECW. Was Paul the greatest business man? No, but he was so good that the Top 2 companies copied and stole from him. Both ideas and talent. Only difference is that Bischoff had no respect for Heyman, where as Vince put Paul on his payroll before buying ECW from him. And then has has Paul Heyman working for the WWE on multiple occasions both on and off screen roles. Promoter, Manager/Agent, behind the scenes stuff which all add up to a Hall Of Fame induction for Heyman. Preferably with the men who truly gave their all for him and ECW.

Of course there are countless others who would deserve a WWE Hall Of Fame induction, especially if there were to an ECW Wing or classes. Guys like Sandman, Lance Storm, Justin Credible, among several others. Even guys who had runs in WWE before going to the land of extreme in ECW, like the late Bam Bam Bigelow who had legendary moments in ECW, and was also in the Wrestlemania XI (11) main event against L.T. Taylor, deserves to be in the WWE Hall Of Fame.