ECW

We went into ECW’s standard-bearer and ace, now let’s look at the company’s icon: “The Hardcore Icon” The Sandman! When I first discovered ECW via wrestling magazines in the mid-90s, he didn’t come off as the most interesting of…
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Extreme Championship Wrestling had a presence on TV during the 90s thanks mainly to Hardcore TV. While this program had a far more limited reach compared to ECW on TNN, Hardcore TV was ECW unfiltered. It was the premium extreme program.…
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In any wrestling company, you want a standard-bearer. This isn’t always the ace or icon but someone who has grown with the company and has seen or been at the top. The standard-bearer is the heart of the company. They usually end up…
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In going through ECW’s major stars you have the icon who transcended being the ace, the ace who is at the top of the company and pushes it forward. Sandman was the icon, Tommy was the standard-bearer, and Taz was the ace.  The Human …
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If you could bring one back which one would you pick? Extreme Championship Wrestling or World Championship Wrestling? While Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment doesn’t have the licenses to ECW or WCW and no interest has been shown in…
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When we think of Al Snow, many of us immediately go back to his Head gimmick during his ECW and WWE days. While he was mainly in the mid-card ranks, his matches were memorable for his skill and talking to Head. We may also remember him as…
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The allure of peaking behind the curtain and seeing what goes on is something fans of every form of entertainment want. Sometimes it’s a letdown as we see our childhood heroes as fallible people, but mostly it’s a cool insight to what…
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In a recent tweet, Taz claimed that WWE piranhas screwed him. There were few wrestlers as intimidating, as awesome, and as dominating as ECW’s (Extreme Championship Wrestling) Taz. He was the master of the suplex and the Tazmission.…
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I’m a fan on Impact Wrestling. The company has a certain tenacity about it that has allowed them to survive nearly twenty years despite their best efforts to implode. They’ve become an outlaw promotion of sorts, where the wrestlers have…
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Just when we thought it was extreme when we see someone use a chair or table, along come death matches. Despite the wishes of many in the professional wrestling community, death match wrestling is alive and well. It’s flourishing in small…
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