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WWE ECW (officially known as simply ECW and colloquially known as ECW on Sci-Fi or ECW on Syfy and WWECW, a portmanteau of both "WWE" and "ECW") is an American professional wrestling television program that was produced by WWE, based on the independent Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion that lasted from 1992 to 2001.
Heyman's creative direction created new stars, and established ECW as the third major national wrestling promotion in the United States in the second half of the 1990s, competing with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). HHG folded ECW in 2001 when it was unable to secure a new national ...
The ECW Championship subsequently became the top championship of WWE's ECW brand. January 22, 2008 SmackDown: The ECW Championship moved to SmackDown after Chavo Guerrero Jr., a member of the SmackDown brand, defeated CM Punk to win the ECW Championship. March 30, 2008 ECW: ECW Champion Kane was transferred to ECW. June 23, 2008 Raw
Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) 12 The Sandman: April 15, 1995: Hostile City Showdown: Philadelphia, PA: 2 196: 195 The title change aired on the April 18, 1995 episode of ECW Hardcore TV via tape delay. [16] 13 Mikey Whipwreck: October 28, 1995: Hardcore TV: Philadelphia, PA: 1 42: 41 This was a ladder match. The episode aired on October ...
ECW is a professional wrestling television program for WWE, based on the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion that lasted from 1992 to 2001. The show's name also referred to the ECW brand , in which WWE employees were assigned to work and perform, complementary to WWE's other brands, Raw and SmackDown .
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. From February 1992 to August 1994, events were ...
The ECW World Television Championship was a professional wrestling television championship in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). It was introduced in 1992 as part of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliate and ECW precursor, Eastern Championship Wrestling , but was established under ECW in 1994.
On WWE's The Rise and Fall of ECW DVD, Heyman alleged that the requests from TNN to tone down ECW's content were excessive. Another source of contention was the lack of original programming. Unsatisfied with the first TNN shoot, Heyman instead chose to air a compilation of promos and old ECW matches designed to act as an introduction to ECW for ...