This Sunday, WWE will roll out Extreme Rules, its first post-WrestleMania pay-per-view. The origin of this franchise was WWE's ill-fated reprisal of Extreme Championship Wrestling. It all started when the One Night Stand pay-per-view did well in 2005, and ECW returned by popular demand the next year.
WWE's in-house version of ECW went against almost everything the brand had once stood for. Corporate partners. Cable television. Accepting WWE paychecks—okay, almost everyth...
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