Formed in the early 1990s and initially based out of the Philadelphia area, Extreme Championship Wrestling -- originally known as Eastern Championship Wrestling -- was launched as an affiliate of the ...

* 40 new ECW Hardcore TV shows will be added to the vault * Three other shows will be added to the vault: ECW Hardcore Heaven from 1995: Public Enemy vs. Gangstas, Sandman vs. Cactus Jack for the ECW ...

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 ...

Long before WWE made Extreme Rules a part of its annual pay-per-view lineup, the company allowed the group that brought the word extreme into the wrestling business to be part of an event known as ECW ...