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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 event took place on July 13, 1996 from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Heat Wave was streamed live as an Internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event. [ 1 ] Excerpts from the event also aired on episodes #753, #754, and #755 of the syndicated television programme ECW Hardcore TV later that month.
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The incident led to the cancellation of ECW's first ever pay-per-view (PPV) event, Barely Legal, by pay-per-view provider Request TV [1] on Christmas Eve 1996. Heyman, by his own admission in The Rise and Fall of ECW, "begged and pleaded" with Request and finally convinced the company that ECW had been misled about Kulas' age. The PPV event was ...
Hardcore Heaven (1996) was the third Hardcore Heaven professional wrestling event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The event was a supercard that took place on June 22, 1996, in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ten professional wrestling matches were contested on the card.
Excerpts from Natural Born Killaz aired on episodes #175, #176, and #177 of the syndicated television show ECW Hardcore TV, while the event was released on VHS in 1996 and on DVD in 2001. It was made available for streaming on the WWE Network in 2020. [2] The main event was featured on the 2001 compilation DVD ECW - Hardcore History [3] and the ...
A special Extreme Championship Wrestling reunion PPV in 2005 led to the creation of an ECW brand in 2006, which also received its own dedicated PPV events. In March 2007, WWE announced that all subsequent non "big-four" PPV events following WrestleMania 23 would feature performers from all brands, which ended brand-exclusive PPVs. [2]
Further controversy arose when it came to light that Kulas had lied to ECW owner and booker Paul Heyman about his age and professional wrestling training. The incident led to a future ECW pay-per-view being cancelled (until Heyman negotiated otherwise), a lawsuit from Kulas' family, and went down as one of the most notorious moments of lore in ...