Extreme Championship Wrestling (WWE)

This article treats division ECW, for the federation which existed of 1992 to 2001, to see Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) is a division of professional wrestling of the World Wrestling Entertainment, based on the independent federation which existed of 1992 with 2001. The show began the June 13rd 2006, and is diffused every week Tuesday evening on Sci Fi Chanel with the the United States. The ECW is one of three divisions of the WWE, the two others being RAW and SmackDown!.

The show perhaps seen on Sci Fi Chanel in the United States, Total X-Treme Sports and with the Canada, Lativi in Indonesia, Sky Sports 3 with the the United Kingdom, First in Germany, FX in Latin America, Ten Sports in India, Astro Supersport in Malaysia, Solar Sports with the Filipino , FOX8 in Australia, SKY 1 in New Zealand, E.tv in South Africa, SIC Radical with Portugal and on AFN Xtra.

The principal color of the show is the GRAY

History

The WWE acquired the Extreme Championship Wrestling and all its video library in 2003 and later started to reintroduce the ECW through a series of DVD and books. The best example is that of The Rise and Fall off ECW , documentary (and later a book) on the history of the federation. The enormous popularity generated around all these goods of the ECW, led the WWE first of all to create according to the suggestion of Rob Van Damm a Pay per view homage to the ECW in 2005 and which would be called ECW One Night Stand. The success not only financial but so critical of the show, justified the WWE to organize second One Night Stand the following year. With this renewed interest on the ECW, the WWE started to explore the possibility of making revive the full-time federation.

The May 26th 2006, the WWE announced the return of the ECW as a division of the federation which would be a complement of RAW and of SmackDown!, and which will be diffused every week on Sci Fi Chanel with the the United States. In spite of the fact that professional wrestling would be badly accepted on SciFi by its televiewers, its president Bonnie Hammer believed that the ECW went booster rocket the set of themes of the chain which is concentrated in imagination. SciFi Chanel is held by NBC Universal, owner of the USA Network and official diffuser of the programs of the WWE on the cable.

To increase the success of the new division, the ECW was promoted especially in the various programs of the WWE in the neighborhoods of One Night Stand. A special show of the name of WWE vs ECW Head to Head was organized besides on the USA Network as a part of promotion.

The division of the ECW at the beginning was to be different it even from other promotions of the WWE. The cameras were placed in a different place and the apron of the boxing ring had a logo " ECW". The all-in wrestlers were called " Extremists" and thus opposed to Superstars, and the catcheuses ones were called " Vixens" in oppositions to the Divas. These special terms were abandoned thereafter.

The division of the ECW put at the origin with the poster the originals of the ECW like Rob Van Damm, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, Balls Mahoney, Al Snow and The Sandman, with the former owner of the ECW Paul Heyman and new the " rebelles" ECW like Kurt Angle and the Big Show. However, after the second episode, the role of Heyman was of a part reduced. According to an interview in the English newspaper The Sun, Heyman wrote scripts of the show every week, and then Vince McMahon kept the final decision. After the Pay per view December to Dismember 2006, Heyman was congédié of its position of director of division ECW, after the bitter failure which was this show with rates of purchases which reached a historically low level for the federation.

Behind the scene, Dave Lagana, former script writer as a chief of SmackDown! today replaced Heyman as a script writer as a chief of ECW.Et aujour' of it is Armando Alejandro Estrada which is general manager.

Changes were made with the division which became completely different from the original federation, in particular the change of the rules in promotion - where the weapons were legal in all the matches and which they did not have there calculations outside or disqualifications. The WWE classified these matches of " Extreme Rules " , and became from now on occasional.

ECW one Sci Fi

The ECW at the beginning was planned for a series of thirty episodes during the summer on Sci Fi Chanel. As the audiences were good, the agreement was prolonged until the end of the year 2007. The first of the ECW on Sci Fi received one 2.79 on the scale of Nielsen, thus making the show with the greatest audience of the history to this schedule.

Whereas the audiences were a success for Sci Fi and the WWE, criticisms of the fans started to rain with regard to the current use of the old ECW. This was notable by the negative reaction of crowd at the time of the hand vent Batista vs Big Show the 2006 in Hammerstein Ballroom.

The shows are not recorded like before in small arenas, but in the relatively large ones, same the lieus where SmackDown! is recorded Tuesday. The ECW is usually diffused on line after the recordings of SmackDown! , however it is occasionally recorded front.

WWE.com introduced like complement of the televised show, Hardcore Hangover which proposes vidéos on the ECW.

The October 16th 2007, ECW is from now on visible on WWE.com. It is also starting from this date that the partnership between the ECW and SmackDown was lance! , certain all-in wrestlers of two divisions being able performer from now on in the other show.

Recurring segments

In addition to matches of wrestling and segments in slides, ECW , like RAW and SmackDown! , had its own weekly recurring segments.

Champions

Other characters

Authority

Commentators

Joey Styles (June 7th 2006 - present)
Tazz (June 7th 2006 - present)

All-in wrestlers with the ECW

See also: Personal of WWE#Division of the ECW

Bonds

the official site of the ECW

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