ECW Originals

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ECW Originals
Stable
Members Tommy Dreamer
Sabu
The Sandman
Rob Van Dam
Former members Balls Mahoney
Debuted 2006
Promotions WWE

The ECW Originals are a professional wrestling stable in the ECW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment.

Their name derives from their affiliation with the original independent Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion, with "ECW Originals" being wrestlers who first came to prominence during the first ECW's run. All four members of the ECW Originals faction held the ECW World Heavyweight Championship and ECW World Tag Team Championship during their tenure with ECW.

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When World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) revived Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) as a third brand they did so by having a number of wrestlers from the original promotion appear on the June 5, 2006 WWE RAW to attack WWE Champion John Cena. From there, when the new ECW was given its own weekly show, with the tagline "A New Breed Unleashed" appearing in commercials for it, on the Sci Fi Channel.

One of the first feuds on the brand pitted Mike Knox and Test against the Sandman and Tommy Dreamer in what was often billed, unofficially, as "the new breed vs the ECW originals".

On January 30, 2007, when Vince McMahon appeared on ECW on Sci Fi to (kayfabe) take a more hands-on role in running the brand, he started by taking stock of the roster. In doing so he degraded the "ECW Originals" he ran in to backstage while calling newcomers a "New Breed". His lavishing comments on Elijah Burke at the end of the night prompted Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, Balls Mahoney and the Sandman to rush to the ring and attack him, leaving him lying in the ring.[1]

Over the next weeks the war continued, with Burke and a number of other "new" stars becoming "the New Breed" and promptly starting a feud with the Originals, who lost Balls Mahoney but were joined by Rob Van Dam. The New Breed got off to a hot start in the feud, picking up win after win with no ECW Originals pinning New Breed members until three weeks in to the feud, when Rob Van Dam pinned Elijah Burke.

These people are not part of the "ECW Originals" stable, but were part of the original ECW and are currently in the ECW brand:
  • Was a member of the stable in the opening stages, but was replaced by Rob Van Dam

  1. ^ ECW on Sci Fi > Archive > 01/30/2007. Retrieved on 2007-02-17.
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