10 Forgotten Wrestling War Moments

7. The Mole between ECW and WCW

While the Monday Night Wars were primarily fought between WWE and WCW, the role of ECW shouldn’t be forgotten. 

Whether it was influencing the creative direction of the two major companies or producing talent that would then move to the ‘big time’, ECW more than played their part in the mid-to-late 1990s. 

While Vince McMahon had a not-so-secret agreement with Paul Heyman’s promotion and would compensate ECW when they signed one of their wrestlers, Eric Bischoff had no such relationship with the Philadelphia-based promotion. 

WCW did, however, have people working with someone on the inside of ECW to help them poach talent. The so-called ‘mole’ was none other than ECW founder Tod Gordon, who assisted some extremists in secretly brokering deals with front office WCW people like Kevin Sullivan and Terry Taylor. 

There was even talk of a potential ECW ‘invasion’ of WCW, but the whole scheme blew up when Tommy Dreamer overheard a damning voicemail from Taylor to Gordon. 

Tod was fired, while his reported accomplice Bill Alfonso had to fight for his job in that brutal bloodbath with Beulah McGillicutty.