East Coast Wrestling Association

East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA) is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 1967 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 ECWA Women's Super 8 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	Location	Event	Previous champion(s)
ECWA Heavyweight Championship	LA Vin	1	March 22, 2025	202+	Morganville, NJ	29th Annual Super 8 Tournament	Darius Carter
ECWA Tag Team Championship	The Backyarders (Abs Armstrong & Travis Lee)	1	November 2, 2024	342+	Morganville, New Jersey	ECWA Night Of Unusual Matches 2024	The Rock N Roll Revival (Billy Wynn & Robbie Wolfe)
ECWA Legacy Championship	Sam Shields	2	March 22, 2025	202+	Morganville, NJ	29th Annual Super 8 Tournament	Vacated
ECWA Territory Championship	Abs Armstrong	2	April 27, 2024	531+	Morganville, New Jersey	N/A	Vacated

ECWA Super 8

Type Of Super 8	Current Super 8 Winner(s)	Date Won	Location	Event	Previous Super 8 Winner(s)
ECWA Super 8 Tournament	Leo Sparrow	March 22, 2025	Morganville, New Jersey	ECWA 29th Annual Super 8 Tournament 2025	Darius Carter
ECWA Tag Team Super 8 Tournament	The Mane Event (Midas Black & Jay Lyon)	September 17, 2022	Morganville, New Jersey	ECWA Tag Team Super 8 Tournament 2022	N/A
ECWA Women's Super 8 Tournament	Erica Leigh	August 8, 2022	Paulsboro, New Jersey	7th Annual Women's Super 8 Tournament 2022	Megan Bayne

Yearly Special Holiday Matches

Match	Current Winner	Times Won	Date won	Location	Event	Award	Previous Winner
Turkey Bowl	Jay D Luscious	1	November 28, 2024 (Thanksgiving)	Morganville, NJ	2024 13th Annual Turkey Bowl (Thanksgiving Special)	Turkey Bowl Championship	Travis Lee (6)
8 Circles of Hell	The Backyarders (Abs Armstrong, Travis Lee, & Clutch Rockwell) & King Reggie (2)	1	October 31, 2024 (Halloween)	Morganville, New Jersey	2024 Annual 8 Circles of Hell	N/A	The Backyarders (Abs Armstrong, Travis Lee, & Clutch Rockwell) & King Reggie
Love Triangle	Abs Armastrong	1	February 14, 2024 (Valentines Day)	Travis Lee's Backyard	2024 Love Triangle Match	A full pair of Cupid Wings and a diaper to wear	N/A

Retired championships

Championship	Last 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.

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

ECWA Hall of Fame Inductees

# Year Ring name (Birth name)[Note 1] Notes[Note 2] 1 1982 Red Devil First ECWA Champion 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 Super 8 competitor 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 Contributing artist 57 2006 Joe Zanolle Photographer 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.) Wrestler 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 2021 John Finegan ECWA Lead official 69 2022 Joel Goodhart East Coast radio host, promoter and founder of TWA, ECWA manager 70 2022 Coach Jim Shorts Manager, and commentator for ECWA 71 2022 Bob Artese ECWA Ring Announcer 72 2022 Steve Corino Former ECWA Tag team champion, founder of WORLD-1 Wrestling 73 2023 Jay D Luscious Two time ECWA Tag Team champion 74 2023 Mad Dog Marley Former ECWA Tag Team Champion 75 2023 Brady Hicks Commentator, PWI Magazine contributor 76 2023 Chris Wylde Former ECWA Champion 77 2025 The Closer Joey Martinez Former ECWA Heavyweight champion

See also

• List of independent wrestling promotions in the United States

Notes

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