Before WWE decided the best use of the Extreme Championship Wrestling name was as a show rivaling Velocity or Sunday Night Heat, the original company were tearing it up on a weekly basis, thrilling fans with some of the most raw and enjoyable wrestling programs around. The mid-90's was a tremendous time to be a grappling enthusiast, due in no small part to the sheer diversity on offer. If fans didn't dig what was happening in the then-WWF, there was always WCW, and if that wasn't clicking, people could check out what was going on in ECW. Paul Heyman's vision for how professional wrestling should be presented was mired with a bevvy of problems, but looking back on ECW events provides countless hours of amazing programming. The company was promoted heavily as a hardcore product, but there was so much more to ECW than just blood, guts, sex, swearing and sickening chair shots. Yes, those elements all played a big part, but this list explores 10 of the absolute 10 main event matches from various ECW supercards and Pay-Per-Views. Not all of them are weapons-based brawls, and even though some include such nuances, they're all worthwhile checking out, both for seasoned ECW fans and newcomers to the land of extreme.
