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ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) is a one-hour wrestling program produced by Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which airs Tuesday nights on the Sci-Fi Channel. It is also an important part of pro-wrestling history, which dates back to the nineties.

During that time, pro-wrestling was a red-hot cultural phenomenon ruled by two competing promotions — McMahon's WWE then known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (or WCW).

As the "big two" duked it out for ratings supremacy on it's competing Monday night shows, Raw and Nitro, Paul Heyman's ECW provided the viable alternative, with an emphasis on both old-school wrestling and elevated levels of simulated violence. This "hardcore" brand of wrestling featuring lots of blood, barbwire, and scantily clad babes soon gained a huge underground following that eventually influenced the big two — particularly in the case of WWF's Raw.

But without national television, Paul Heyman eventually sold the promotion to McMahon, who after a few successful reunion pay-per-views, brought back ECW. Early shows featured original ECW wrestlers like Sandman and Rob Van Dam, but eventually they would be gone. Today's ECW resembles the old one in name only.

ECW fans continue to blog at sites like the Wrestling Blog and Lets Talk Wrestling.

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• Christian Vs. William Regal on ECW this week

  
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  The main match this week on ECW from England is a title match between Christian and William Regal. On this match however, Ezekiel Johnson and Vladimir Kozlov will be watching how Christian will defend his title on the ring side as they are banned from the ring.    
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• Ezekiel Jackson and Vladimir Kozlov Vs. Yoshi Tatsu and Christian on ECW Nov 10, 2009

  
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• Ecw on ScyFy 11/3/09 Results and Review Christian Turmoil

  
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  Ecw on ScyFy 11/3/09 Results William Regal defeated Goldust Shelton Benjamin defeated Zack Ryder Vance Archer defeated Logan Jones Yoshi Tatsu & Christian defeated Kozlov & Ezekiel Jackson Ecw on ScyFy 11/3/09 Review Christian was in ring and talking about Regal. He was calling out William Regal and ...
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• ECW Recap 11.03.09

  
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  ECW Recap from Providence, RI: A video highlighting last weeks ECW title match between champ Christian and challenger Yoshi Tatsu was shown. Yoshi seemed to have serious momentum and several near falls, but ultimately Christian hit the Killswitch on him to preserve his title. As Christian went over to commend his ...
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• First 2009 Topps WWE Sketch Card hits auction block

  
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