East Coast Wrestling Association

East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA) is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded by promoter Jim Kettner.^[1] It is home to the annual Super 8 Tournament, one of the longest-running independent wrestling tournaments in the country,^[1] as well as the annual Super 8 ChickFight Tournament. In 2010, Kettner announced his retirement and turned the promotion over to Mike Tartaglia and Joe Zanolle. Mike Tartaglia officially put the company on hiatus on June 5, 2019.^[1] In December 2019, Tartaglia sold the promotion to Zanolle.^[2]

East Coast Wrestling Association

Acronym	ECWA
Founded	1967
Style	Professional wrestling
Headquarters	Newark, Delaware
Founder(s)	Jim Kettner
Owner(s)	Joe Zanolle
Website	ECWAprowrestling.com

Championships

Current champions

Championship	Current champion(s)	Reign	Date won	Days held	Defenses	Location	Event	Previous champion(s)
ECWA Heavyweight Championship	Joey Ace	1	November 06, 2021	527+	0	Morganville, NJ	Super Clash	Mr. Ooh La La
ECWA Tag Team Championship	The Marvelous Ones (Greg Spitz and Teddy Fine)	1	September 19, 2020	940+	4	Morganville, New Jersey	24th Annual Super 8 Tournament	Jay D. Luscious and Mr Ooh LaLa
ECWA Legacy Championship	Sam Shields	1	November 06, 2021	527+	0	Morganville, NJ	Super Clash	Chris Rockwell
ECWA Territory Championship	Matt Vertigo	1	May 1, 2021	716+	1	Morganville, New Jersey	ECWA 25th Annual Super 8 Tournament	–

Retired championships

Championship	Current champion(s)	Reign	Date won	Days held	Defenses	Location	Event	Previous champion(s)	Notes
ECWA Women's Championship	Gabby Ortiz	2	July 31, 2021	273	0	New Castle, Delaware	ECWA Super 8 Chickfight Tournament 2021	Vacant	During this reign the title was deactivated making Gabby Ortiz the final champion.

Personnel

ECWA Hall of Fame

Established in 1982, the East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA) Hall of Fame honors performers and staff members alike for their contributions to the organization. Though there is no physical location for the Hall of Fame, the organization acknowledges all inductees on its website.^[3]

Inductees

#	Year	Ring name (Birth name)^{[Note 1]}	Notes^{[Note 2]}
1	1982	Red Devil
2	1982	Jim Kettner	Founder of the ECWA
3	1982	Super Smenkowski
4	1982	Tiny Tom
5	1982	Captain Tom	Managing
6	1982	George Koukedis	Announcing
7	1982	Mike Schroeder
8	1983	Big Bill Page
9	1983	The Maniac
10	1983	Mr. Funk
11	1984	Mad Dog Celli
12	1984	Barry Page
13	1985	The Baron	Managing
14	1985	Dirty Dirk Dunlap	Managing
15	1985	Ruffhouse Rivera (George Rivera)
16	1985	The Bulldog
17	1985	Sweet Chocolate Thunder
18	1985	Jim Russum
19	1986	The Wild Sheik
20	1987	Mike Clark	Announcing
21	1988	Lord Vito Leone	Managing
22	1992	The Viper	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
23	1992	The Commando (Mark Miller)
24	1992	The Commanding Officer
25	1992	Dazzling Donny Love
26	1992	Billy K	Announcing
27	1994	Dr. Destruction
28	1994	Nigel Fair Service (George Rivera)
29	1994	Thunder (Carl Fisher)
30	1994	Boogie Woogie Brown (Delance Clifford Wright)	Won the ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (2 times) and ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
31	1995	Simon Diamond (Patrick Kenney)	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time), ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time), ECWA Tag Team Championship (2 times), and ECWA Super 8 Tournament (1998)
32	1995	Cheetah Master (Mike Womer)	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (3 times), ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time), and ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
33	1996	Ace Darling (Michael Maraldo)	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time), ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (4 times), and ECWA Tag Team Championship (3 times)
34	1996	Inferno	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (1 times) and ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time)
35	1996	Ravishing Ronny Roberts (Chuck Jones)	Won the ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time)
36	1996	Glen Osbourne	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (2 times)
37	1996	Mr. Ooh La La (Mike Houghton)	Won the ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (2 times)
38	1996	Big Al Napier	Announcing
39	1996	Bob Densmore	Refereeing
40	1996	Richard Naegele	ECWA Commissioner
41	2000	Jeff Peterson
42	2001	Christopher Daniels^[4] (Daniel Covell)	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and ECWA Super 8 Tournament (2000, 2004)
43	2001	Crowbar^[4] (Chris Ford)	Won the ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
44	2001	Reckless Youth^[4] (Tom Carter)	Won the ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time)
45	2002	E.S. Easton	Managing
46	2002	Kevin Kelly (Kevin Foote)	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
47	2004	Charlie Haas	Won the ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
48	2004	Russ Haas	Won the ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
49	2004	Billy Kidman	Won the ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
50	2005	Scoot Andrews (Andrew Warner)	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
51	2005	Chuck Ristano	Announcing
52	2005	Paul Turner	Refereeing
53	2006	Billy Bax (George Baxter)	Won the ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
54	2006	Rob Eckos (Rob Strauss)	Won the ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time) and ECWA Tag Team Championship (2 times)
55	2006	Mozart Fontaine (Rufus Roush)	Won the ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time)
56	2006	Pete Theophall
57	2006	Joe Zanolle
58	2007	Low Ki (Brandon Silvestry)	Won the ECWA Tag Team Championship (2 times), ECWA Super 8 Tournament (2001)
59	2007	Sebastian Night	Managing
60	2007	The Iron Man (Charles Hiltner Jr.)
61	2007	Gary McLaughlin	ECWA floor director
62	2009	JJ the Crew Guy (John Gregory Johnson)	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
63	2009	Mega	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and ECWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
64	2011	Michael Tartaglia	Won the ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time)
66	2012	"Greek God" Papadon	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (3 times), ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time)
67	2013	Aden Chambers (Scott Beach)	Won the ECWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time), ECWA Mid Atlantic Championship (1 time), and ECWA Tag Team Championship (2 times)
68	2020	John Finegan	ECWA Lead official
69	2021	Joel Goodhart	East Coast radio host, promoter and founder of TWA, ECWA manager
70	2021	Coach Jim Shorts	Manager, and commentator for ECWA
71	2021	Bob Artese	ECWA Ring Announcer
72	2021	Steve Corino	Former ECWA Tag team champion, founder of WORLD-1 Wrestling

Notes

^ Entries without a birth name indicates that the inductee did not perform under a ring name.
^ This section mainly lists the major accomplishments of each inductee in ECWA.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Press release" (PDF). East Coast Wrestling Association. 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
^ "PWInsiderXTRA.com".
^ "Hall of Fame". East Coast Wrestling Association. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c Meltzer, Dave (November 4, 2001). . Wrestling Observer. Archived from the original on December 26, 2001. Retrieved March 4, 2023.

External links

Official ECWA website

[4] Entries without a birth name indicates that the inductee did not perform under a ring name.

[5] This section mainly lists the major accomplishments of each inductee in ECWA.

[PressRelease081910-1] "Press release" (PDF). East Coast Wrestling Association. 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-08-19.

[2] "PWInsiderXTRA.com".

[ECWAHOF-3] "Hall of Fame". East Coast Wrestling Association. Retrieved April 16, 2012.

[won041101-6] Meltzer, Dave (November 4, 2001). . Wrestling Observer. Archived from the original on December 26, 2001. Retrieved March 4, 2023.

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Contents

Championships

Current champions

Retired championships

Personnel

ECWA Hall of Fame

See also

Notes

References

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