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5 unusual facts about Extreme Championship Wrestling


Brian Mailhot

The gimmick was reminiscent of both Right to Censor, a stable created to parody the Parents Television Council, and The Network, an ECW stable led by Cyrus which claimed to represent TNN.

Even Steven Levee

In 1993, Even was one of the original members of the band that would become known as Harry Slash & The Slashtones, later best known for their original works heard on the Extreme Championship Wrestling television programs from 1997 to 2008.

Pushing Buttons

In the United States, the EP was not released, but "Black Friday" and "More Than You Are" ended up on Guide to Better Living and "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" ended up on an ECW compilation released by Earache Records.

Request TV

One of the major highlights of Request TV was that it was the first national television outlet to run Extreme Championship Wrestling programming, as documented by Paul Heyman in the DVD The Rise and Fall of ECW.

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The station aired a variety of programming including public-domain movies, Cincinnati Reds baseball games and was also the local affiliate to carry ECW Hardcore TV on Sunday evenings.


Brian Hildebrand

Cody Michaels developed and promoted the event, which is viewed by wrestling insiders and experts as one of the truly memorable events in history that actually brought together the major companies at the time, World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in support for one of the most genuinely loved workers in the industry.

Buck Quartermain

As of 2007, Quartermain began negotiating to appear on WWE's Extreme Championship Wrestling brand as well as touring Japan with Osamu Nishimura's Muga World promotion.

Chubby Dudley

He debuted in Eastern Championship Wrestling, the forerunner to Extreme Championship Wrestling, in the early 1990s as E.Z. Ryder, a biker character.

Color commentator

Former Extreme Championship Wrestling color commentator Cyrus was known for having dual roles as a heel manager and a somewhat neutral commentator.

Doug Furnas

As a wrestler, Furnas worked for, among other promotions, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) best known for being part of the tag team Can-Am Express with tag team partner Phil Lafon.

ECW Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event held by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), which took place on February 12, 1999 at the Elks Lodge in Queens, NY.

Johnny Hotbody

The TWA closed its doors suddenly in 1991, but was soon replaced by Eastern Championship Wrestling (later Extreme Championship Wrestling), run by Tod Gordon.

Main Street Armory

For the next 15 months the Armory became N.E.W.'s home venue, and such wrestling superstars such as The Latin American X-Change (Homicide and Hernandez) (L.A.X.), Koko B. Ware, Too Cool, The Heart Throbs, and Extreme Championship Wrestling legend The Sandman have since competed inside the arena.

Pine Bluff Convention Center

On January 13, 2001 Extreme Championship Wrestling's last ever event before the promotion shut down was held at the convention center.

Stephanie Bellars

She has worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) under the names Gorgeous George, George Frankenstein, and simply George.

The ECW Originals

When World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) revived Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) as a third brand, they did so by having a number of wrestlers from the original promotion appear on the June 5, 2006 WWE Raw to attack WWE Champion John Cena.


see also

Barely Legal

ECW Barely Legal, a pay-per-view event promoted by Extreme Championship Wrestling in April 1997

Dances with Dudley

After a brief stay in the AWF, he and White Wolf won the AWF tag team titles before Burmudez was brought into Extreme Championship Wrestling to replace Snot Dudley who had been injured at ECW Hardcore Heaven earlier that year.

Morgus the Maniac

While competing in an interpromotional show with Extreme Championship Wrestling, then Eastern Championship Wrestling, which included former WWF wrestlers such as Mr. Hughes, Junkyard Dog, Greg "the Hammer" Valentine and Jake "the Snake" Roberts, he would lose his MEWF Heavyweight title to Lucifer the Knight of the Road on November 14, 1993.