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ECW crowds were known to have rabid, loyal fans especially in the arenas where they had multiple shows. This includes Hat Guy, Faith No More Guy (Lenny), the Bleacher Creatures, and more. These fans connected with other ECW fans, and that snowballed into wrestling fans around the world resonating with the ECW product. Even Sign Guy Dudley (later Lou E. Dangerously) was a fan who then got trained before he joined the Dudley Boyz family.
However, there was a "Second Tier" of fans which only die-hard ECW fans knew about. One of those was "Dreads". According to the Blue Meanie's Twitter posts, Dreads actually got trained and briefly appeared during a run-in at an ECW show in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania:
https://x.com/BlueMeanieBWO/status/1858652630236430494
and here:
https://x.com/BlueMeanieBWO/status/1858664489928769551
He wore a tie-died shirt and had short dreadlock hair, hence the nickname "Dreads". Here is a Tweet someone posted of him dancing around at an ECW show:
https://x.com/deadman23px/status/1394518484940427264
Other ECW alumni and ECW fan boards acknowledged him as well. Here is Sabu's mention of Dreads:
https://x.com/TheRealSabuECW/status/1503181412874170372
Here is one of the old ECW fan bulletin board posts which discusses some of Dreads' background:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/UQYX5bH6uLw/m/zf3-ySuWoqgJ
Dreads even had a mention in the Reddit WWE group (over 1 million members) here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WWE/comments/2mpmbq/1995_ecw_and_dreads_the_dreadlocked_front_row_fan/
A mention of Dreads getting chokeslammed by 911 at an ECW show was included in this post from PW Insider: https://pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.php?id=6614&p=8
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