The inaugural ECW Pay Per View was Barely Legal on April 13, 1997. With its origins in Joel Goodhart's Tri-State Wrestling, ECW would morph from Eastern Championship Wrestling to the more defined and shambolic Extreme Championship Wrestling. Barely Legal was significant for the company and the wrestling business. Most fans and insiders considered ECW the 3rd most pertinent promotion in North America in the 90s. The announcement of its first PPV seemed to indicate that ECW had arrived.
Read MoreWhen one thinks of Extreme Championship Wrestling, many names will inevitably come to mind, but for many, those two names are Raven and The Sandman. After all, the intense and personal feud between the two was one of the launching pads that helped bring ECW to the mainstream, or as mainstream as the violent brand could become.
Read MoreLouie Spicolli was a well-liked and energetic wrestler who possessed tremendous potential, but as is too often in the wrestling business, personal demons would swallow him whole. This is his story.
Read MoreWhile murders that have been wrestling-adjacent are few and far between, most haven’t heard much about the murder-suicide of Charles Williams, known as Rockin’ Rebel. We relive this tragic story.
Read MoreOn September 6th, 1997, two wrestlers in similar phases of their ECW journey embarked on a feud that spanned nearly a decade across multiple promotions. This is the highly overlooked feud of Justin Credible vs Jerry Lynn.
Read MoreBy 1999, Taz had reached every milestone there was in ECW and joined WWF because he felt that he had nothing left to prove and had "lost his passion" for ECW. But what if he hadn't?
Read MoreIn early 1997, WWF was being pummeled by WCW in the battle for rating supremacy, so Vince McMahon invited ECW and its stars to make a few special appearances on the flagship show, Monday Night RAW, as both an attempt to boost sagging ratings as well as allow ECW some more mainstream exposure leading into their big PPV. We look at this invasion's what and how.
Read MoreComprised of Perry Saturn and John Kronus, The Eliminators' tenure as a tag team only lasted four years, but their influence has been felt throughout tag team wrestling to this very day. Today, we put the spotlight on this highly overlooked duo.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2000, Rob Black’s XPW, a knock-off ECW at best, attempted to invade Heat Wave 2000, resulting in one of the strangest wrestling tales of the time.
Read MoreIn the later years of Extreme Championship Wrestling, once many of the original stars such as Shane Douglas, The Sandman, Raven and Taz had left for WCW or WWF, there were two men who would become the new anchors of the promotion, putting on matches that would go on to define an entire generation, Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn.
Read MoreIn April 2000, WCW signed away the ECW current World Heavyweight Mike Awesome. After a dominant run in the land of extreme, all momentum came to a screeching halt after being stuck with laughable gimmicks in World Championship Wrestling. Today, we reimagine that run.
Read MoreCactus Jack was a crazed, unpredictable character who seemed to bask in the anguish he inflicted on his opponents and the pain he was forced to endure. Still, his ascension into stardom would truly be showcased as he denounced the bloodthirsty fans during his time with the Philadelphia-based promotion known as ECW.
Read MoreIn 2005, Terry Funk was approached with two separate offers to appear on Hardcore Homecoming and One Night Stand, but at 60-years-old, he knew his body wouldn't be able to handle two matches so close together and had to choose one. Find out why he turned down appearing on ECW One Night Stand.
Read More"Wildcat” Chris Harris was a TNA original and one half of the undeniably successful tag-team known as America’s Most Wanted alongside partner “Cowboy” James Storm. As the two went in their separate directions, Chris Harris eventually joined WWE under the name Braden Walker, but his new journey was destined for failure.
Read MoreThe cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking, Singapore cane-swinging badass who entered the ring amongst the fans to Enter Sandman was the embodiment of ECW. Still, a guaranteed six-figure contract from WCW would lure The Sandman away from the promotion that endeared him to wrestling fans. No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home. Read about his journey to WCW and back.
Read MoreIn late 1999, Dusty Rhodes left WCW and still desired to prove his worth, but who would have ever guessed that the American Dream would venture to the land of extreme? Read all about Dusty's run in ECW.
Read MoreWhen Mike Awesome signed with WCW and took the ECW World Championship with him, Paul Heyman made a request for a WWF wrestler to help him out, Tazz.
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