ECW Guilty as Charged 2000
ECW Guilty as Charged 2000

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ECW Guilty as Charged 2000

2000
Movie
152 min
English

Mike Awesome defends the ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Spike Dudley in the main event. The Impact Players take on Tommy Dreamer & Raven with the ECW Tag Team Championship on the line. ECW Television Champion Rob Van Dam faces Sabu. Tajiri joins forces with Super Crazy to face Jerry Lynn & Little Guido. New Jack and more in action.

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IMDb7.5/10
Director: Paul Heyman (booker)Genres: Professional Wrestling, Pay-per-view

Plot Summary

ECW Guilty as Charged 2000 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling. The event is primarily remembered for its intense matches and the culmination of several ongoing storylines within the promotion. Key matchups included Justin Credible defending his ECW World Heavyweight Championship against The Sandman, and a high-flying encounter featuring Super Crazy.

Critical Reception

As a professional wrestling event, 'Guilty as Charged 2000' received a mixed reception. While it delivered the signature hard-hitting and often brutal in-ring action that ECW was known for, it was also seen by some as a transitional period for the promotion, with the landscape of ECW beginning to shift. The main event, while a classic ECW formula, was also criticized by some for its outcome.

What Reviewers Say

  • The event delivered the extreme style that ECW fans expected, with hard-hitting action.

  • The main event provided a fitting climax to ongoing feuds, though some found the booking predictable.

  • The undercard featured exciting performances, particularly from high-flying wrestlers.

Google audience: Audience reception for this specific event is difficult to gauge through general Google reviews as it is a niche professional wrestling pay-per-view rather than a mainstream film. Fan forums and wrestling review sites from the era often praised the intensity and unpredictability of ECW events.

Fun Fact

This event marked the final ECW pay-per-view appearance of Taz, who had recently returned to WWE (then WWF) and had his final ECW match taped for this event, though he did not physically appear live.

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