WWE One Night Stand

One Night Stand is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). For the first two years the event featured wrestlers from the former Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion, whose holdings WWE purchased in bankruptcy court, and was promoted under the ECW initials. [cite web|title=Timeline - Historical Dates|url= http://www.gerweck.net/timeline.htm|publisher=Gerweck.net|accessdate=2008-07-11] The 2005 show was a tribute show to the original ECW, with most of the match participants being ECW alumni including those who were not under contract with WWE at the time.cite web|first=Jason|last=Clevett|title=ECW reunion shows picking up steam|url= http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2005/05/27/1059750.html|work=Slam! Sports|date=2005-05-27|accessdate=2007-09-12|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer] The 2006 edition, however, marked the kickoff to WWE's new ECW brand.cite web|first=Brian|last=Elliot|title=ECW resurrected at PPV|url= http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/12/1628702.html|work=Slam! Sports|date=2006-06-12|accessdate=2007-09-23|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer] In 2007, the event became a regular tri-branded pay per view, taking the name One Night Stand: Extreme Rules. The event is billed as the one show a year where every match takes place under Extreme Rules.cite web|first=Matt|last=MacKinder|title=One Night Stand a PPV gong show|url= http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/06/03/4234606.html|work=Slam! Sports|date=2007-06-04| accessdate=2007-10-09|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer]

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References

ee also

*List of WWE pay-per-view events
*Extreme Championship Wrestling (WWE)

External links

* [http://www.wwe.com/shows/onenightstand/ One Night Stand website]