Sure, the debuts of Kevin “Diesel” Nash and Scott “Razor Ramon” Hall, fresh off successful World Wrestling Federation runs, made news enough. But when Hulk Hogan turned his back on the fans and ...
Memorably, Jerry 'The King' Lawler had an on screen vendetta against ECW. Lawler then went on to work the Hardcore Heaven 1997 pay-per-view, facing Tommy Dreamer in one of the promotion's most heated ...
On Feb. 27, 2013, I had the pleasure of speaking with former ECW original Jason Knight on my wrestling radio show, “Oh You Didn’t Know!?” on ProWrestlingPowerhouse.com Radio to discuss his early run ...
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 ...
A new hot war is brewing. You can smell it in the air. The WWF fired the first shot across the bow of WCW when Meng was lured back, reclaiming his WWF Haku identity. More salvos were set off Feb. 2 ...
If you’ve been regularly reading our vintage Best and Worst of WWF Raw columns (and if you’re not, you’re doing yourself a serious disservice as a wrestling fan), you’ll know that just a couple of ...
This article was inspired by an argument that I wasn't involved in. In that argument, the bone of contention was that the only good thing about current WWE Intercontinental Champion Drew McIntyre was ...
* 18 years ago in 1997, ECW ran their second pay-per-view event, Hardcore Heaven, live from the War Memorial in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was generally considered a weak follow-up to their debut, ...
* 31 years ago in 1984, the WWF held a combination house show and TV taping at the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri. The M.O. for Kiel shows at the time was that the fans would get a regular ...
Extreme Championship Wrestling was a US North East fixture from 1994 to 2001, led by the charismatic Paul Heyman and gave the wrestling world mainstream hardcore wrestling. From Sabu and Rob Van Dam ...
It became apparent to the world this week that Taz would be leaving Extreme Championship Wrestling soon, indeed headed to the World Wrestling Federation. At last Sunday's "Anarchy Rulz" Pay-Per-View, ...
The Raw after TLC ended in hype-mode for Survivor Series. Practically the entire SmackDown Live roster invaded Raw during the closing moments of the show and laid waste to the Red Team's locker room.