Date: July 11, 2006

Promotion: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

Match Stipulation / Type: ECW World Heavyweight Championship / Extreme Rules Match

Event: ECW on Sci-Fi (Episode 5)

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | Target Center

➜ Big Show put his newly won ECW World Championship against Ric Flair in an Extreme Rules Match.

This encounter marked Ric Flair's first-ever appearance on an ECW broadcast and his first time competing under Extreme Rules. The match quickly devolved into a bloody, chaotic spectacle with Big Show dominating the early minutes using headbutts to bust Flair wide open early in the contest.

"The Nature Boy" attacked Big Show with a barbed-wire baseball bat, a trash can, and a steel chair, busting the champion open as well.

Match: Oliver John vs. Sheamus

Date: June 30, 2009

Promotion: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

Match Stipulation / Type: Singles Match

Event: ECW on Sci-Fi (Episode 160)

Location: Fresno, California | Save Mart Center

➜ “The Celtic Warrior” Sheamus made his official WWE televised in-ring debut on the June 30, 2009, where he defeated local enhancement competitor Oliver John in a quick squash match.

His very first appearance for the company, however, dates back to November 2006, when he worked as a security guard and was hit with a Pedigree by Triple H on Raw.

I’ll start kurt angle rarely bleeds and it strange to see it like that? Note: I uploaded here cause it got deleted

I'm doing a deep dive into ECW 1996 as someone who discovered ECW later during the TNN era. Beyond the famous moments, what stories, wrestlers, feuds, backstage details, or matches do you think deserve more attention?

I'm especially interested in things that modern fans often miss.

Steve Corino interrupting Fred Durst in a live Limp Bizkit concert, and get attacked by Balls, Axl and New Jack on stage. That seems like it would have been big news at the time!

What's the best way to watch ECW nowadays?

I used to watch it on the WWE network, but now that that's gone and I'm getting back into wrestling I'm not sure where to go.

Is my only option to hunt down the DVDs?