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This Day In ECW – April 6 1993 – First Eastern Championship Wrestling TV Show

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29 years ago today, on April 6 1993, the first episode of Eastern Championship Wrestling’s television program aired on SportsChannel Philadelphia. We found a terrific article written by David Taub in 2018 titled “Hardcore Wrestling: It All Started with ECW 25 Years Ago”. Please check out the full article here:

https://gvwire.com/2018/04/05/hardcore-wrestling-it-all-started-with-ecw-25-years-ago/

Here is more about David Taub:

https://gvwire.com/author/david-taub/

The article covers a lot of topics from the early days of ECW, then known as Eastern Championship Wrestling (also referred to as NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling). There are many names which hardcore ECW fans may only briefly know, and there are names which many ECW fans didn’t know who were responsible for putting together the first-ever TV shows.

Some of those names include:

Wrestler Already In The Ring When bWo Debuted

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ECW Trivia Question

The Blue World Order (bWo) debuted at the November to Remember 1996 in Philadelphia, PA (November 16, 1996). Which wrestler was in the ring already when the bWo made their initial appearance at the ECW Arena that night?

Answer:

David Tyler Morton Jericho (later to be known in ECW as Kid Kash)

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ECW Wrestler From First Show In 1992 To Last Appear In ECW

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ECW Trivia Question

Which wrestler from Eastern Championship Wrestling’s first-ever show (February 25, 1992 in Philadelphia PA) was the last to appear on an Extreme Championship Wrestling show?

Answer:

JT Smith. He was in the tag-team main event on Feburary 25, 1992 and last appeared in ECW on September 19, 1998 in a six-man match teaming with Chris Chetti & Tommy Rogers facing the Full Blooded Italians (FBI).