10 Former ECW Wrestlers who are still wrestling

Chris Jericho of the rock band Fozzy was among the original ECW performers

#2: Tommy Dreamer

Tommy Dreamer started training to be a wrestler in the late 1980s. Before joining ECW -- then known as Eastern Championship Wrestling -- in 1993, Dreamer had wrestled the likes of Tony Atlas, The Iron Sheik and The Brooklyn Brawler.

Dreamer would stick around ECW until its closure in 2001, also working behind the scenes. He was initially part of ECW's invasion storyline within WWF before being sent to one of the company's developmental territories. Dreamer returned to the WWE's main roster in 2002, going on to win the Hardcore Championship more than a dozen times before leaving WWE in 2010.

Later in 2010, Dreamer appeared in TNA for the first of several runs with the company. Beyond launching his own House Of Hardcore promotion, he returned for a one-off WWE appearance in 2012 and returned again for another short run in November 2015 -- including matches against The Wyatt Family -- which touted his legacy as an ECW Original. Since then, Dreamer has popped up in Ring Of Honor, Lucha Underground, and Impact Wrestling.

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Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer.

Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal.

Darren is also the host of the bi-weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" podcast, as co-produced with V13 (formerly PureGrainAudio.com). He has also co-authored two published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), with a second podcast set for a June 2020 launch.

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Edited by Shiven Sachdeva