Charles Ashenoff

A look at ECW, XPW, and the general professional hard-core wrestling scene from those who lived it at the two companies' last days. Entirely without slant or opinion. (lostinlodos)

SuperBrawl VI took place on February 11, 1996 from the Bayfront Arena in St. Petersburg, Florida. This event marked Brian Pillman's final match in WCW; in his "I Respect You" Strap Match against The Taskmaster, Pillman shouted "I respect you, bookerman!," breaking kayfabe, before leaving the ring. All the pre-PPV matches took place live on WCW Main Event. (Wikipedia)

Uncensored 1996 took place on March 24, 1996 from the Tupelo Coliseum in Tupelo, Mississippi. All of the pre-pay-per-view matches were broadcast live on WCW Main Event. Diamond Dallas Page was originally scheduled to face Johnny B. Badd for the WCW World Television Championship, but Badd had lost the title to Lex Luger prior to Uncensored and left the company shortly thereafter. (imdb)

The Great American Bash was an annual summer professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and then by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). According to Ric Flair in his autobiography, To Be the Man, Dusty Rhodes invented the concept of The Great American Bash. (Wikipedia)

Road Wild 1998 took place on August 8, 1998 from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. (wikipedia)

Spring Stampede (1999) was the fourth annual Spring Stampede professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling. The event took place on April 11, 1999 from the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. (wikipedia)

Destination X (2005) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion, which took place on March 13, 2005 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. (wikipedia)

January 23, 1996 in Las Vegas (Caesars Palace)[41] Lord Steven Regal injured his knee during the opening dark match against Chris Benoit. Benoit bled from the eye after receiving several headbutts. The show included the wedding of Col. Robert Parker and Sister Sherri, which was interrupted by Madusa, who was revealed to have been seeing Parker on the side.

August 15, 1996 in Denver, Colorado (Denver Coliseum)[42] Ric Flair was the WCW United States Heavyweight Champion at the time, making the match champion vs. champion, but his title was not on the line. (Wikipedia)

January 21, 1997 in Milwaukee (Wisconsin Center Arena)[43] Chris Jericho replaced Juventud Guerrera, who no-showed, while La Parka replaced Psychosis, who was injured. (Wikipedia)

August 21, 1997 in Nashville, Tennessee (Nashville Municipal Auditorium)[44] The main event was originally announced as a standard tag match, but was changed to a match for Hall and Kevin Nash's tag team titles before it began, with Randy Savage subbing for Nash under the Freebird rule. (Wikipedia)

Tommy Dreamer and Terry Funk wage war against Raven and Cactus Jack. The Sandman and 2 Cold Scorpio defend the ECW World Tag Team Titles against the Public Enemy in a match where the winner of the fall gets a shot at Mikey Whipwreck's ECW World Heavyweight Title. Rey Misterio Jr. battles Psicosis in a Mexican Death Match and more. (imdb)

SuperBrawl VII was the seventh SuperBrawl professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event took place on February 23, 1997 from the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California. (Wikipedia)

Slamboree (1997) was the fifth Slamboree professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on May 18, 1997 from the Independence Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. As of 2014 the event is available on the WWE Network. (Wikipedia)

Starrcade (1998) was the sixteenth annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event, produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on December 27, 1998 from the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. The main event was a No Disqualification match between Goldberg and Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Their feud began when Nash won a battle royal at World War 3, and earned a title match.

Millennium Final was a Germany-only professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event from World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on November 16, 2000 from the Arena Oberhausen in Oberhausen, Germany. The rights to Millennium Final now belong to WWE after their purchase of WCW in 2001. It is one of the few pay-per-view events not made available for streaming on the WWE Network service.

Sin was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on January 14, 2001 from the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sin replaced WCW's January PPV event, Souled Out which was held from 1997 to 2000. Sin was the antepenultimate WCW PPV before the company was absorbed by the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) in March 2001.

Greed was the final professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on March 18, 2001 from the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida. Greed replaced the promotion's March PPV event Uncensored which was held from 1995 to 2000. The pay-per-view event took place three days before the final episode of Thunder and eight days before the final episode of Monday Nitro.

Hardcore Stylized Content. (imdb)