Barely Legal: ECW's First PPV 
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Barely Legal: ECW's First PPV 

The inaugural ECW Pay Per View was Barely Legal on April 13, 1997. With its origins in Joel Goodhart's Tri-State Wrestling, ECW would morph from Eastern Championship Wrestling to the more defined and shambolic Extreme Championship Wrestling. Barely Legal was significant for the company and the wrestling business. Most fans and insiders considered ECW the 3rd most pertinent promotion in North America in the 90s. The announcement of its first PPV seemed to indicate that ECW had arrived. 

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Revisited Rivalries: Raven vs The Sandman
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Revisited Rivalries: Raven vs The Sandman

When one thinks of Extreme Championship Wrestling, many names will inevitably come to mind, but for many, those two names are Raven and The Sandman. After all, the intense and personal feud between the two was one of the launching pads that helped bring ECW to the mainstream, or as mainstream as the violent brand could become.

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ECW's Invasion of WWF in 1997
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ECW's Invasion of WWF in 1997

In early 1997, WWF was being pummeled by WCW in the battle for rating supremacy, so Vince McMahon invited ECW and its stars to make a few special appearances on the flagship show, Monday Night RAW, as both an attempt to boost sagging ratings as well as allow ECW some more mainstream exposure leading into their big PPV. We look at this invasion's what and how.

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Overlooked Tag Teams: The Eliminators
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Overlooked Tag Teams: The Eliminators

Comprised of Perry Saturn and John Kronus, The Eliminators' tenure as a tag team only lasted four years, but their influence has been felt throughout tag team wrestling to this very day. Today, we put the spotlight on this highly overlooked duo.

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The Night XPW Invaded ECW
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The Night XPW Invaded ECW

In the summer of 2000, Rob Black’s XPW, a knock-off ECW at best, attempted to invade Heat Wave 2000, resulting in one of the strangest wrestling tales of the time.

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RVD vs Jerry Lynn: The Whole F'n Show vs. The New F'n Show
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RVD vs Jerry Lynn: The Whole F'n Show vs. The New F'n Show

In the later years of Extreme Championship Wrestling, once many of the original stars such as Shane Douglas, The Sandman, Raven and Taz had left for WCW or WWF, there were two men who would become the new anchors of the promotion, putting on matches that would go on to define an entire generation, Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn. 

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