The southern part of the building gained worldwide recognition when it served as ECW Arena, home of professional wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from May 1993 until the promotion's closure in April 2001.
Sharing the same portion of the building with the South Philadelphia Viking Club, ECW often referred to the venue on-air as "The World's Most Famous Bingo Hall".

ECW referee John Finnegan reminisced about the building's arrangement in a July 2006 interview:
A lot of people put it down as just a bingo hall, but to us it never was.
We’d show up at the arena and the ring was in place, the chairs were set up and we’d be ready to go.
The only time we ever noticed that it was a bingo hall was after the shows when we’d be tearing the place down and you’d look over and see a line of old ladies waiting for us to finish so they could start their games.

An NWA World Title Tournament at the venue in August 1994 ended with Shane Douglas throwing down the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and declaring himself ECW World Heavyweight Champion, effectively launching ECW as a national promotion.

ECW broadcast Barely Legal, their first live pay-per-view event from the venue in April 1997.
The event was headlined by Terry Funk defeating Raven to become ECW World Heavyweight Champion.
Immediately following the broadcast, the building lost power.

Paul Heyman commented in April 1998 as to whether ECW would run another pay-per-view event from the venue:
It's not out of the question, but in some ways it's just like I will never name another show Barely Legal.
That was our first, it was special, and nothing that we do should ever take away from the enormity of that event.
Although I'm not sure of this answer, I would certainly admit that there is merit to the argument that doing another pay-per-view from the Arena would create a situation in which the emotion and the overall, all-encompassing night that our fantasies came true at Barely Legal might be diminished.

ECW never ran another pay-per-view from the venue.
The promotion gradually moved its shows away from Philadelphia, running only 6 events at the venue in 2000.

The final ECW show at the venue was Holiday Hell in December 2000, headlined by Steve Corino retaining his ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Justin Credible and The Sandman.
The southern part of the building gained worldwide recognition when it served as ECW Arena, home of professional wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from May 1993 until the promotion's closure in April 2001. Sharing the same portion of the building with the South Philadelphia Viking Club, ECW often referred to the venue on-air as "The World's Most Famous Bingo Hall". 
ECW referee John Finnegan reminisced about the building's arrangement in a July 2006 interview:
A lot of people put it down as just a bingo hall, but to us it never was. We’d show up at the arena and the ring was in place, the chairs were set up and we’d be ready to go. The only time we ever noticed that it was a bingo hall was after the shows when we’d be tearing the place down and you’d look over and see a line of old ladies waiting for us to finish so they could start their games.
An NWA World Title Tournament at the venue in August 1994 ended with Shane Douglas throwing down the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and declaring himself ECW World Heavyweight Champion, effectively launching ECW as a national promotion.
ECW broadcast Barely Legal, their first live pay-per-view event from the venue in April 1997. The event was headlined by Terry Funk defeating Raven to become ECW World Heavyweight Champion. Immediately following the broadcast, the building lost power. 
Paul Heyman commented in April 1998 as to whether ECW would run another pay-per-view event from the venue:
It's not out of the question, but in some ways it's just like I will never name another show Barely Legal. That was our first, it was special, and nothing that we do should ever take away from the enormity of that event. Although I'm not sure of this answer, I would certainly admit that there is merit to the argument that doing another pay-per-view from the Arena would create a situation in which the emotion and the overall, all-encompassing night that our fantasies came true at Barely Legal might be diminished.
ECW never ran another pay-per-view from the venue. The promotion gradually moved its shows away from Philadelphia, running only 6 events at the venue in 2000.
The final ECW show at the venue was Holiday Hell in December 2000, headlined by Steve Corino retaining his ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Justin Credible and The Sandman.
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