ECW founder Tod Gordon seeks to 'set the record straight' as he recalls revolutionizing pro wrestling in book

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The average pro wrestling fan fondly looks back on the time when WWE was going toe-to-toe with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) each Monday night as one program had The Rock, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and The Undertaker while the other show had New World Order, Hulk Hogan, Goldberg and Sting.

One upstart promotion added a new wrinkle to the Monday Night Wars and pushed the pro wrestling industry to adopt a more extreme style to further captivate their audiences.

Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was the name that changed the game.

When most fans look back on ECW, the most recognizable names that come up are the likes of Paul Heyman, Rob Van Dam, Sabu, The Sandman, Cactus Jack, Tommy Dreamer, The Dudley Boyz and a few others. But it is Tod Gordon who was one of the main players of ECW and helped make the promotion extremely prominent all the while WWE, then known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), was going head-to-head with WCW.

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Tod Gordon with his dog (Handout)

Gordon’s new book, "Tod is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling" is set to hit bookstands on Tuesday. The book was co-written by Sean Oliver and includes a foreword by pro wrestling legend Terry Funk.

The book chronicles how Gordon first created the promotion, which was initially called Eastern Championship Wrestling when it was a territory under the National Wrestling Alliance, and how it broke away from the old regime and take on the pro wrestling world alone.

Gordon told Fox News Digital in a recent interview the first idea was to use the NWA initials to give the company