"ECW's 1995: Sandmans Road Map to Madness: ECW’s Blood, Beer, and Barbed Wire Confessions"
Wrestling Shoot Interviews - A podcast by Louis Joylon West

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Pull up a barstool, crack open a cold one, and let The Sandman—ECW’s beer-swilling, cane-swinging anarchist—take you on a savage, no-holds-barred journey through the birth of EXTREME. This ain’t WWE’s polished fairy tales. This is 1995 ECW, where Tod Gordon’s “Tod Is God” mantra collided with Paul Heyman’s unhinged genius to redefine wrestling forever. From back-alley brawls to barbed wire revolutions, The Sandman lived it all, and now he’s spilling every blood-soaked secret.In "Road Map to Madness," The Sandman drags you into the heart of ECW’s most chaotic year—when Eastern Championship Wrestling died and Extreme Championship Wrestling rose from its ashes. Hear firsthand how Heyman’s deranged creativity turned Philly’s bingo halls into battlegrounds, where steel chairs flew, tables exploded, and kayfabe was murdered in cold blood. Relive The Sandman’s brutal wars with Tommy Dreamer, the rise of Raven’s twisted mind games, and the night ECW fans became a bloodthirsty cult chanting for violence.This isn’t a history lesson—it’s a backstage pass to insanity. The Sandman breaks down how ECW’s rebellion against corporate wrestling rewrote the rules: the birth of the “Triple Threat,” the real story behind the first barbed wire match, and why a kendo stick and a six-pack became his weapons of choice. With gritty, unfiltered stories about locker room mutinies, Heyman’s last-second madness, and the real cost of being “hardcore,” this podcast is a love letter to the lunatics who bled for ECW.If you’ve ever raised a “Fuck the WWF” sign or tasted the iron sting of a bladejob, "Road Map to Madness" is your bible. No scripts. No apologies. Just The Sandman—cigarette in hand, beer in the other—telling you how ECW changed wrestling… and nearly killed him doing it.