From 1992 until 2001, Extreme Championship Wrestling offered fans of professional wrestling a true alternative to the mainstream. The promotion featured violent bouts with plenty of blood, weapons, ...

Tod Gordon founded Extreme Championship Wrestling — originally known as Eastern Championship Wrestling — in 1992. The American businessman sold the now-defunct organization to Paul Heyman three years ...

The days of Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, "barbed-wire" matches, "flaming table" matches," "fans bring weapons nights" are long gone, but now, so is the ECW. "The Land of the Extreme" has become ...

The WWE Hall of Fame induction of Paul Heyman in Philadelphia has fans reminiscing the ECW days and that promotion’s best memory. Heyman made a statement to show he belonged in a relevant wrestling ...

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 ...

Known as The Sandman in ECW and WWE, and Hardcore Hak in WCW, the Hardcore Icon amassed a cult following in the late 1990s. This was due in no small part to his entrance, which saw him make his way ...