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Details are sketchy, but this could be the end. There is talk that CHIKARA & CZW have been asked to vacate and come get their shit immediately, and that the building will no longer house wrestling.
This would be heartbreaking for me personally, and also mark the end of an era. Whatever you want to call the place (most people still call it the ECW Arena), for almost 20 years, with apologies to MSG, it's been the mecca of wrestling in North America.
ECW, ROH, CZW, CHIKARA, Dragon Gate USA, and even TNA & WWE have run the building, along with countless other indy groups and nostalgia shows. Nearly every relevant talent in wrestling over the last 15-20 years has worked the building. Countless historical moments have taken place there. I would be wiling to wager, that aside from places like Budokan Hall or Korakuen Hall or Differ Ariake or maybe the Tokyo Dome, more great matches have taken place at "the bingo hall" than anyplace else on earth.
I have been there dozens of times to see ECW, ROH, CHIKARA, and DGUSA. I liked it better pre renovation, but it's still the best place in the world to watch a show. The gritty feel, the intimacy, and you can just feel the history when you walk into the place. Even in the middle of the summer, it seems like it's in the coldest, wettest, and grimiest part of South Philly.
If this really is the end, I am flying back to Jersey for whatever the last show is. Even if it's CZW and I have to coexist with the cretins and weirdos that inhabit those shows.
This would be heartbreaking for me personally, and also mark the end of an era. Whatever you want to call the place (most people still call it the ECW Arena), for almost 20 years, with apologies to MSG, it's been the mecca of wrestling in North America.
ECW, ROH, CZW, CHIKARA, Dragon Gate USA, and even TNA & WWE have run the building, along with countless other indy groups and nostalgia shows. Nearly every relevant talent in wrestling over the last 15-20 years has worked the building. Countless historical moments have taken place there. I would be wiling to wager, that aside from places like Budokan Hall or Korakuen Hall or Differ Ariake or maybe the Tokyo Dome, more great matches have taken place at "the bingo hall" than anyplace else on earth.
I have been there dozens of times to see ECW, ROH, CHIKARA, and DGUSA. I liked it better pre renovation, but it's still the best place in the world to watch a show. The gritty feel, the intimacy, and you can just feel the history when you walk into the place. Even in the middle of the summer, it seems like it's in the coldest, wettest, and grimiest part of South Philly.
If this really is the end, I am flying back to Jersey for whatever the last show is. Even if it's CZW and I have to coexist with the cretins and weirdos that inhabit those shows.
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