Currently, the largest professional wrestling company worldwide is the United States-based World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), which bought over many smaller regional companies in the late twentieth century, as well as its primary competitors in early 2001, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).

This type of match became increasingly prominent during the 1990s, and was a particular feature of the Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) promotion.

Extreme Championship Wrestling Professional wrestler The Sandman had a finishing maneuver called the White Russian Legsweep, a portmanteau of the drink and the standard wrestling maneuver.

* Cross Racing Championship Extreme 2005, a car-racing game developed by Invictus Games

The assets of Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ), which had folded after filing for bankruptcy protection in April 2001, were purchased by WWE in mid-2003.

On May 26, 2006, WWE announced the relaunch of Extreme Championship Wrestling as a WWE brand.

* The Alliance ( professional wrestling ), professional wrestling faction which ostensibly consisted of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling

* Trisa Hayes – wrestling manager in Extreme Championship Wrestling

* Beulah McGillicutty – wrestling manager in Extreme Championship Wrestling

* DC Drake ( born 1957 as Don Drake ), former professional wrestler, former World Champion for National wrestling Federation and Heavyweight Champion for Tri-State Wrestling Alliance, later known as Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).

The professional wrestler Justin Credible used the track as his entrance theme in Extreme Championship Wrestling and when performing in the independent promotions.

He is a lifelong fan of professional wrestling and self-described " wrestlemaniac ", and appeared at an Extreme Championship Wrestling event wielding an acoustic guitar as a weapon.

After briefly working on the independent circuit and in Extreme Championship Wrestling, Dumas signed with World Wrestling Federation in 1999.

He wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) from 1995 to 1996 and World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) from 1996 to 2001, as Rey Misterio, Jr ./ Rey Mysterio, Jr. but dropped the " Junior " from his name when he began working for WWE in 2002.

Mysterio signed with Paul Heyman's Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) in 1995.

At Extreme Rules, Jericho managed to unmask Mysterio and pin him for the Intercontinental Championship, however his face was never shown, as he covered it.

Weather permitting, the World Extreme Skiing Championship is held annually in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez.

During the late 1990s, talks were briefly in the works to bring Extreme Championship Wrestling to the Walker Field House, but the company opted instead to remain at the nearby Mid-Hudson Civic Center.

He is best known for his time spent with Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) and World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ).

In addition to his most recent role, Dreamer is known for the time he spent in the Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) promotion, of which he has been called the " heart and soul ".

Dreamer joined Eastern Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) in 1992, just before its name change to Extreme Championship Wrestling.

* 1998 – ECW: Extreme Music – contains a cover of Metallica's " Enter Sandman " by Motorhead.

On the compilation album ECW: Extreme Music Anthrax recorded a cover of the Metallica song " Phantom Lord ".

McMahon later revealed that she had purchased Extreme Championship Wrestling and intended to bankrupt the WWF ( in reality, the ownership of ECW assets at this time was highly disputed ), along with her brother Shane, who had become the on-screen owner of World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), and the two rosters merged to form a " supergroup " known as The Alliance.

She is perhaps best known for her appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) and the SmackDown!

In 1998, Psaltis was informed that Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) employee Buh Buh Ray Dudley was interested in bringing her into ECW.

He is known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ), World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), and Ring of Honor ( ROH ).

In 1996, Storm joined Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).

ECW owner Tod Gordon then renamed the company to Extreme Championship Wrestling and officially withdrew ECW from the NWA.

In January 1996 Van Dam signed with promoter Paul Heyman's Philadelphia-based promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ), defeating Axl Rotten in his debut match at House Party.

In the United States, Guerrero wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ), World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), and in World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ).

Guerrero and Barr's first break would come when they were noticed in late 1994 by the owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ), Paul Heyman, and were approached about wrestling for him in 1995.

He is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) under the ring names Little Guido Maritato and Nunzio.

He stayed in UWF until 1992 where he joined Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) under the name Damian Stone.

On the following edition of TNA Impact !, the ECW alumni, known collectively as Extreme, Version 2. 0 ( EV 2. 0 ), were assaulted by A. J.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

Extreme Unction was the usual name for the sacrament in the West from the late twelfth century until 1972, and was thus used at the Council of Trent and in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

From the early Middle Ages until after the Second Vatican Council the sacrament was administered, within the Latin Church, only when death was approaching and, in practice, bodily recovery was not ordinarily looked for, giving rise, as mentioned above to the name " Extreme Unction " ( i. e. final anointing ).

A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham ( commonly known by its domain name, c2. com ), on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository.

It also has several channels that are licenced to use its name ; Showtime Scandinavia ( Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden ), Showtime Extreme ( Spain ), and others.

A few years after Extreme Gong ended, Sony planned to revive the show again under its classic name and format for The WB Television Network, but this version was never realized.

TBS ( present TBS Holdings, Inc .) produced the Takeshi's Castle game show, which is dubbed and rebroadcast in Indonesia ( RCTI, TPI ), Germany ( DSF ), Britain ( Challenge ), Spain ( Cuatro TV ), Italy ( Italia 1 ), Finland ( JIM ) Philippines ( GMA Network DZBB-7 ), India ( Pogo TV ) and the United States ( Spike, under the name MXC, formerly Most Extreme Elimination Challenge ).

The only Japanese related term used for the show was the name " Most Extreme Elimination Challenge ", which has a Japanese-like feel.

The name AirPort Extreme also refers to Apple's implementation of the ( 802. 11g ) protocol and the expansion cards and base stations that employ it.

Matthew " Matt " Hyson ( born August 13, 1970 ) is a retired American professional wrestler, best known for his performances in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring name Spike Dudley and in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Brother Runt.

In October 1993, he and Joe Chetti ( brother of Chris Chetti ) debuted in the Philadelphia-based Eastern Championship Wrestling ( ECW ), just prior to its name change to Extreme Championship Wrestling, as the tag team The Tazmaniacs.

Shortly afterward, Eastern Championship Wrestling changed its name to Extreme Championship Wrestling.

* The name and structure of Ian McDonald's science fiction novella " The Days of Solomon Gursky " ( Asimov's Science Fiction June 1998, reprinted in Mike Ashley's 2006 anthology The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction ) is based on the nursery rhyme.

Using the name Jazzmine, she later joined Extreme Championship Wrestling as a part of an alliance called the Impact Players, which included wrestlers such as Jason Knight, Lance Storm, and Justin Credible.

Michael Lee Alfonso ( January 24, 1965 – February 17, 2007 ), better known by his ring name Mike Awesome, was an American professional wrestler best known in America for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and in World Wrestling Federation and also in Japan for his work with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling under the name The Gladiator.

Hurley claims that the band name came from an insert for an album by the Dutch band Lärm: " It featured a bandanna-ed hardcore kid with ' Extreme Noise Terror ' surrounding him.

Notable among these is the Connecticut Extreme Croquet Society, for its storied history as well as its lucrative domain name http :// www. extremecroquet. org.

Michael Stefano began his directing career with Extreme Associates in the mid-1990s under the name Luciano, before leaving to direct for Red Light District Video and other studios.

The name was revived for the June 2012 pay-per-view event after WWE used Fatal 4-Way and Capitol Punishment to brand its June events ( Extreme Rules, which previously occupied the slot, was moved to April to follow WrestleMania ).