On August 27, 1994 at the ECW Arena, the landscape of sports-entertainment changed forever when ”The Franchise” Shane Douglas defeated The Tazmaniac, Dean Malenko and 2 Cold Scorpio to win a tournament to become the NWA World Heavyweight Champion. In an angle which only he, Tod Gordon, and Paul Heyman knew about, Douglas threw down the NWA title belt and stated that he did not want to be champion of a “dead promotion”. Douglas threw down the title and picked up the ECW Championship instead. Doug

549K views · 397 shares | On April 14, 2000 ECW aired on TNN. Just days after Mike Awesome appeared on WCW Nitro, he appeared at an ECW house show at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis, Indiana to drop the Ecw championship. Officially a WCW employee, Awesome showed up in the building for a very tense situation and dropped the belt to then-WWF employee Taz, who dropped the belt the following week to Tommy Dreamer at the ECW arena. | Davenport Sports Network | Facebook

ECW, WCW, and WWE Legend “The Franchise” Shane Douglas is making his way to World Classic Professional Big Time Wrestling presents SLAM-O-WEEN — Saturday, October 25th, 2025 at the OUC Shoemaker Center in Chillicothe, Ohio! 🎃 From holding the ECW World Heavyweight Championship four times, to shocking the wrestling world by tossing down the NWA title and declaring the dawn of Extreme Championship Wrestling, Shane Douglas has always done things his own way. 💥 He’s coming to meet the fans during