At Hardcore Heaven 1994, Cactus Jack and Terry Funk signaled for the crowd to throw them chairs, but soon regretted that request. As much as the Monday Night War between WWE and WCW changed the ...

Extreme Championship Wrestling was a US North East fixture from 1994 to 2001, led by the charismatic Paul Heyman and gave the wrestling world mainstream hardcore wrestling. From Sabu and Rob Van Dam ...

I can still remember the first time I watched ECW on MSG Network in New Jersey at about 1 am on a Saturday night. Up until that point, I never saw someone go through a table. I never saw someone get ...

Original format: WWE acquired Extreme Championship Wrestling and its video library in 2003 and later began reintroducing ECW through a series of DVDs and books. The enormous popularity of ECW ...

H.H.G. Corporation, ECW’s parent company, officially filed for bankruptcy on the promotion’s behalf in New Jersey. It was revealed that ECW owes a total of $8,881,435 in unpaid bills for such things ...

Moving ECW to national television was a huge coup for Paul Heyman. ECW signed a three year contract with TNN (then The Nashville Network) and debuted during the last week of August 1999 as part of ...

Extreme Championship Wrestling was both destined to be great and doomed to fail. Throughout the mid to late ‘90s, the grungy Northeastern promotion set the tone for a wrestling boom period known as ...

Kurt Angle’s pro wrestling debut came in, of all places, Extreme Championship Wrestling. Angle was less than two months removed from his triumph in the Summer Olympics on October 22, 1996 when ECW ...