On June 23, , the title became exclusive to Monday Night Raw when Kane was drafted to the flagship show. He first title win came in , when he was awarded the European Championship, but he would lose it just over a month later.
The match had a minute time limit and began with two superstars. Every five minutes, another superstar entered the match. The superstar who got a pinfall or submission on any other superstar became the champion until the next pinfall or submission happened.
Every superstar in this match got a win except for the Miz. When Matt Hardy was the champion when the 20 minutes ended, he won the title. This would be the final title Matt hardy would win while with WWE, having previously won 12 other titles. Jack Swagger was pushed immediately upon debuting with ECW. He won the ECW Championship and held it for a good amount of time. Upon leaving the company in , he found himself in TNA entering the main event.
On June 28, Dreamer survived a scramble match, with Jack Swagger, Finlay and Mark Henry gaining victories before Dreamer was able to pick up a win to retain his title after the 20 minutes expired. When the show ended, Jackson became the final wrestler to ever hold the title, as the belt was officially abandoned again and ECW itself was put out of business for the second time.
Ezekiel Jackson has since won the Intercontinental Championship, but now he does nothing while on SmackDown. Extreme Championship Wrestling was a one-of-a-kind wrestling promotion. It probably had the most loyal fanbase in the history of the business. The title has seen many Hall of Famers and legends throughout its existence.
It was disappointing to see the company go under and the ECW Championship abandoned. This new ECW was a shell of its former self. The only resemblance of the past it had was the occasional extreme rules match and Tommy Dreamer.
Thanks for reading! Advance to the next slide for information on the next edition! Photos: onlineworldofwrestling. After today, there will be 13 titles left in the series, and I want you, the readers, to vote on which one you want to see next. The two tag-team and television titles will take more than one article to complete, so they will take a while to put together.
The international title has lineage with the original World Championship and the NWA Championship, so it will take some extra time and research to do. These five will get done, but they will be done last due to the length of their histories. Enjoy our content? Despite setbacks, the show goes on with Tazz and Sabu finally facing off after a yearlong rivalry and Terry Funk capturing the ECW Title in an emotional main event.
June 6, Dreamer Wins! Dreamer remains in The Land of the Extreme until its demise. WATCH The sight of the two competitors smashing through the canvas is so wild and unexpected, ECW fans express their disbelief with an explicit chant that would live on in sports-entertainment long after this event. April 20, Champion vs. The show, which is headlined by a blistering bout between Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn, sends the renegade company out on a high note.
Three months later, on April 4, ECW files for bankruptcy with financial assets totaling 1. Later that night, The Big Red Monster defeats Guererro to win the title in only eight seconds, setting the record for the shortest match in WrestleMania history. After beating 2 Cold Scorpio in the finals, Shane Douglas won the title and immediately threw it down, establishing the era of Extreme in a fiery promo.
The show, while short-lived, was a ratings hit while it lasted. ECW really leveled up in , gaining wider exposure thanks to an invasion storyline executed in collaboration with WWE that saw the two promotions sharing talent on another's shows.
For many fans, the year was a creative peak for ECW, especially considering that the promotion lost a lot of talent to WCW this year and in the previous one. Soon enough however, much of its talent would move on to the much bigger promotions.
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