The Rise & Fall of ECW2004

Paul Heyman:
Mikey Whipwreck was part of our ring crew. And these kids worked on the ring crew for free as long as they could fly around the ring a little bit and, uh, just be noticed. And we noticed Mikey Whipwreck and he was nineteen years old, and he would take a bump and-and he had such sympathy. And... so we asked him if-if he'd like to wrestle, and he said "Oh, my God, it's my dream to wrestle." And he was trained and so we put him in the ring, and the one key was we never gave him an offensive maneuver. The next thing you know, he'd come out and-and-and the audience would just explode. And people fell in love with him. He took the best beatings of anybody you'd ever seen. And people fell in love with him.