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Ecw used to completely own the word ‘extreme’ back in the day, with wrestlers being set on fire, thrown through tables and skewered with various objects. It was undoubtedly all very ridiculous and unsafe, but which match types would we love to see make a comeback, perhaps just for one night?

Extreme Championship Wrestling pushed the envelop for professional wrestling and we’ll probably never see that level of punishment and violence again. The first six match types just might stand a slim chance of making a comeback, while the last four have no hope of being ever seen in mainstream wrestling again and are completely ‘what if’ scenarios.

10. Singapore Cane Match

The Singapore cane is an object that Ecw made famous in the 90′s after being influenced by a news article regarding the caning of American Michael Fay in Singapore and ever since then the weapon has become a...

A microscopic portrait of Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been created. The image - which measures 46 by 32 microns - would fit onto a standard-sized postage stamp 300,000 times and was created by scientists at the University of Nottingham to mark the monarch's 60th year on the throne. It has been engraved on a second-hand diamond, but is completely invisible to the naked eye. Dr Michael Fay, one of those to create the image, said the picture was 'very accurate'. He said: 'We basically blasted bits of the diamond out by firing heavy bits of atoms at the carbon of the diamond. 'We can do this very accurately and produce a very small image.' Fellow scientist Professor Martyn...