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The news that WWE was planning to bring back ECW was leaked in the middle of April as Vince McMahon decided to revive ECW as a full-time brand. [4] Reports beforehand stated that WWE was prepared to bring back ECW immediately after WrestleMania 22 .
ECW folded in 2001 and WWE acquired its assets in 2003. In 2022, WWE revived the Heat Wave name for NXT, but stylized as Heatwave, and it has since been held annually, first as a television special of NXT in 2022 and 2023, then as a livestreaming event in 2024 as WWE ceased airing NXT pay-per-views from 2022. The event's name is a reference to ...
The build-up for the 2006 ECW One Night Stand occurred on both Raw and SmackDown! heading into the pay-per-view, but build-up behind the scenes began several months earlier, as WWE was bringing back ECW full-time. The news that WWE was planning to bring back ECW was leaked in the middle of April as Vince McMahon decided to revive the promotion ...
Eastern Championship Wrestling/Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) is a defunct professional wrestling promotion based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that operated from 1992 to 2001. Over the course of its existence, ECW staged regular supercards and, beginning in 1997, pay-per-view events.
The former owner of Philly-based ECW has been a star in WWE since his promotion folded. Wrestlemania weekend, he'll be inducted in the hall of fame. ECW promotor, legendary manager Paul Heyman WWE ...
On February 2, 2010, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon announced that ECW would be going off the air and would air its final episode on February 16. [10] The final match on the show was an extreme rules match where Ezekiel Jackson defeated ECW Champion Christian. [11] With the ECW brand permanently disbanded, the ECW roster were assigned to other ...
The DVD featured interviews with ECW alumni who were not employed by WWE telling their side of ECW's history. [31] The success of Rise and Fall of ECW and Forever Hardcore led to WWE reassessing the value of the ECW brand and directly resulted in WWE hosting ECW One Night Stand 2005 to further test how much strength remained in the ECW fandom. [30]
Soon afterwards, the company promoted two ECW reunion shows for ECW alumni, entitled ECW One Night Stand in 2005 and in 2006. [2] On May 25, 2006, WWE announced a launch of a new brand, ECW, a revival of the former 1990s promotion. [3] The new brand debuted on Sci Fi on June 13, 2006, [3] with its final episode on February 16, 2010, on the ...