In this video, The Franchise Shane Douglas discusses how impactful the city of Philadelphia was to the success of ECW. He talks about how Philly was different than other areas of Pennsylvania, such Pittsburgh, let alone other cities in the United States such as Dallas or Miami or Charlotte.
Shane has a line saying, that ECW "gave Philadelphia a taste of Philadelphia." He also talks about the history of the city, and how the crowd would reach due to the majority of the crowd being from Philadelphia. Shane talks about how much impact that the city had on the wrestlers took home from them.
He also talks about the impact of the ECW Arena and its "magic inside the walls" of the building.