ECW

Marty Jannetty is a former WWE Intercontinental and WWE World Tag Team champion—with 1-2-3 Kid. I always thought it was odd that Jannetty never won with HBK in the Rockers. Then again, they were always depicted as being on the rise in a…
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One of the things that was exposed in the WWE this past weekend with WrestleMania 36 was the behind the scenes politics with several matches. It’s something most of us have known and accepted for years, and frankly didn’t care about as…
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Towards the end of Extreme Championship Wrestling's run, we got a glimpse of what could’ve been its future. Starting with Rob Van Dam's Television title reign in 1998, we saw a number of new talents file into the company. Out of those…
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Even though he would leave ECW for WCW in 1998, The Sandman would return a year later and continue the legend. However, that’s getting ahead--plus his time in WCW wasn’t really worth mentioning. Let‘s get into his further evolution of…
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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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Jimmy Snuka is one of those wrestlers where you can see what made him so over. Of course, he was always over as this major star. By the 1990s, you could only find Snuka on indy wrestling TV on a regular basis. One of the reasons for…
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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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