I just don't think that as a whole, CZW can compare to what ECW did to wrestling overall.

Definitely not. And I wasn't saying it did as a whole. ECW, even though it only ran for about 9 years, created tons of stars and like you said it all-around changed the business in the terms of promoting and booking and style. I was just adding that CZW is not all just blood and violence and while it did do that well, it also had great straight up wrestling matches that often get overlooked. I have always lived within about 15 minutes of the ECW arena and was devastated when ECW folded, but CZW definitely stepped in to the Arena and right away and continued bringing the type of wrestling you wouldn't see in WWF at the time.

Other than the hardcore stuff, I saw so many amazing live matches from high flyers/technical wrestlers like Jay Briscoe, Amazing Red, Ruckus, MDogg20, Jodie Fleisch, Super Dragon, Kevin Steen, El Generico, B-Boy, Homicide, Jack Evans, Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Jimmy Jacobs, Sonjay Dutt, Bobby Quance, Brian XL, Chri$ Ca$h, Mike Quackenbush, Claudio Castagnoli, Ricochet, Chuck Taylor, Matt Sydal, Excalibur, Teddy Hart, Trent Acid, Petey Williams, Sami Callihan, and occasionally someone like CM Punk or AJ Styles, plus more. Some of the matches I saw from these guys, while mostly emulating the ECW style, were on par or better than the matches I was used to seeing from ECW. I haven't really kept up with wrestling over the past 10 years, but I look back on those early CZW shows at the Arena the same way I do with the ECW shows I saw. To your point ECW was much more prominent and quintessential, but in terms of the in-ring product, it isn't that absurd to compare Jerry Lynn vs. RVD or Super Crazy vs. Tajiri to some of CZW's best matches.