ECW’s key success came while the promotion was under Paul Heyman’s control. Gordon provided his thoughts on Heyman regularly being marketed as the force behind ECW.

“It’s true that eventually you can paint a picture any way you want and eventually start painting it as Paul Heyman’s ECW,” Gordon said. “So that’s interesting. I was running that thing for a couple of years before Paul even got hired. So that’s interesting, and I just figured, ‘You know what? Let it be. Let it be.’ 

“But I kept seeing all these DVDs coming out, books coming out, ‘The Rise and Fall of ECW,’ the history of Extreme Championship Wrestling, the unauthorized story. Why were they all the unauthorized story? Because [people] don’t ever interview me.” 

Gordon said he has only ever been asked to feature in one of WWE’s past projects focusing on the promotion. He claims that if individuals weren’t employed by WWE — who currently own the ECW tape library — then they wouldn’t get asked to be involved. Because of that, Gordon has now decided to share his “authorized” ECW story. 

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