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 ...

The Sandman believes Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) fans influenced the way people reacted to major moments in sports and other wrestling promotions. In the 1990s, Paul Heyman's ECW was known ...

Paul Heyman changed the wrestling industry by moving forward with ECW as his passion project to shake up the landscape. WWE and WCW were the only top major promotions getting attention, but the ...

The event took place at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York just two days before ECW relaunched as a weekly WWE show. ECW’s passionate fans had been known to cause legitimate riots at shows in the ...

While the company might not be to everyone's tastes, and while some of what produced in that iconic bingo hall in South Philadelphia might not have aged too gracefully through a modern lens, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. However, the show quickly made it clear that it wasn’t the ECW of old. Legends of the past were phased out as WWE talents like ...

John Cena received one of the loudest negative reactions during his appearance at the 2006 ECW: One Night Stand event. Despite Cena's popularity, the ECW fans cheered for Rob Van Dam, leading to Cena ...

Another documentary-style DVD focusing on the story of the original ECW has been released. "Barbed Wire City" is now in stores and it gives fans of the unforgettable company that rose to power in the ...

After cancellation in October 2000, ECW went without a national television program until its April 2001 closure. Of the many rumors floated to ECW fans regarding the issues surrounding ECW's inability ...

One night in 1997, after an Extreme Championship Wrestling show in South Philly at what's now known as the 2300 Arena, a young Rob Van Dam was sitting at the bar of the old Holiday Inn at the Sports ...

I think most WWE fans, and wrestling fans in general will agree that ECW is the ugly child of WWE's offspring of TV shows. Now I was unaware of ECW during the "good 'ol days" when things were ...