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Exploring the glory years of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW)

October 9th, 2009

In this week’s Extreme Championship Wrestling Report: The Past & The Present. We will be flashing back through time to ECW’s past and comparing it’s history with it’s present .

Be prepared, to be stunned by the differences.

The following, is a match that took place on May 16th, 1999, during the Extreme Championship Wrestling event entitled “Hardcore Heaven”. You’ll hear the incredibly multi-talented Joey Styles at the  announce table along with seeing one of the most hated managers in the business, Bill Alfonso, annoyingly blowing his whistle during the entire match. During this time, ECW was aired on TNN television for an hour on a weekly basis, but had little to offer in the way of production value (as you can see). The wrestling match features “Mr. Pay-Per-View“, Rob Van Dam pitting the ECW World Television Championship title against “The New F’N Show“,Jerry Lynn.

The next event, took place on has prothe SyFy cable network, on August 4th, 2009, in a what World Wrestling Entertainment calls ECW. I chose this match in particular because it is currently one of the most hard core/extreme match the brand has produced under the WWE banner. This video features “Captain Charisma“, Christian (Cage) in more of a fight than a wrestling match with, “The Innovator Of Violence“, Tommy Dreamer in a match stipulating hard core rules.

So, after over a decade (ten years) of continually holding a one hour cable television slot, which Extreme Championship Wrestling production do you think offers/offered the best product and why?

Leave a comment and let me know if you like Heyman ECW or WWE ECW and why?