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Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and operated by its parent company HHG Corporation. The promotion was founded in 1992 by Tod Gordon as National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliate Eastern Championship Wrestling.
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.
This is a list of professional wrestlers and other people who appeared in the original incarnation of Extreme Championship Wrestling. Wrestlers who used more than one ringname while in ECW will be listed under the ring name for which they used the most or were best known in order to clean up the list, since any performer who used multiple ring names most likely has them listed on their ...
ECW withdrew as a member of the NWA in 1994 and renamed itself to Extreme Championship Wrestling. [1] The championship remained active until April 2001, when ECW filed for bankruptcy. All of ECW's assets were later purchased by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in mid-2003, including the copyrights to ECW's championships. [2]
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 ...
The ECW Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tag team tournament to crown the new ECW Tag Team Champions on August 7 and August 8, 1993 [4] after the titles were vacated when Chris Candido, one half of the champions with Johnny Hotbody left the company for Smoky Mountain Wrestling.
This category includes articles about Extreme Championship Wrestling, as well as the revived ECW brand from World Wrestling Entertainment
The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and later, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the original world title of the ECW promotion, spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.