MUMBAI: Ten Sports will launch its third original World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) show of the week with the start of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).

The other two shows are Raw and SmackDown!

ECW will debut on Ten Sports on 29 June at 11:30 pm. The late night wrestling show will settle into a regular Friday night 10:30 pm slot once the Indian cricket tour of the West Indies has ended.

The new roster of wrestling stars is designed to create a more extreme form of the sport. Ten Sports has decided against showing ECW to a daytime audience. The action will be the raciest by far and will be restricted to a new late night slot. The show replaces Velocity.

Ten Sports says that ECW has already proved a ratings success in North America where the ECW team of wrestlers has begun taking on the existing teams of Raw and SmackDown!.