What the World Was Watching: ECW Hardcore TV – July 25, 1995

Joey Styles calls the matches on tonight’s card, which come from ECW’s event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

A video package showcases some of the action in Fort Lauderdale.  A lot of attention is paid to a brawl between Raven and Steve Richards against Tommy Dreamer and Luna Vachon, with Raven and Richards laying Vachon out with a double DDT before Dreamer cleared the ring with a foreign object and smashed Raven’s hand.

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What the World Was Watching: ECW Hardcore TV – July 18, 1995

Highlights from Heatwave ’95 are shown.

Joey Styles hypes this week’s tour of Florida, as well as the Steiner Brothers debut at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Middletown, New York on July 28.

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What the World Was Watching: ECW Heatwave 1995

Joey Styles does commentary for the show, which took place at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 15.  According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew 1,000 fans.

Bill Alfonso gets nuclear heat by coming out and saying that the show is going to be cancelled.  Commissioner Tod Gordon interrupts, saying that he fired Shane Douglas so he can fire anyone.  Alfonso is undeterred, saying that he cannot be fired.  The audio is so bad you cannot understand much beyond that, but a fight between the two erupts until some of the lower midcard of the ECW locker room breaks it up.  Alfonso insists that he is running tonight’s show.

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What the World Was Watching: ECW Hardcore TV – July 11, 1995

911 chokeslamming the Broad Street Bully, Chad Austin, Don E. Allen, and Dino Sendoff at Hardcore Heaven ’95 is shown.

Joey Styles hypes Heatwave ’95.  The card will feature the Sandman defending the ECW Championship against Axl Rotten, Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko facing each other in a tag team match where they will have mystery partners, Hack Myers against Val Puccio, Luna Vachon faces Steve Richards in a cage match, and the Public Enemy faces the Gangstas in a “caged and hoodie” match where there will be weapons for them to use in the cage.

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What the World Was Watching: ECW Hardcore Heaven 1995

Joey Styles does the commentary from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  The show took place on July 1, 1995 and, according to Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer for June 10, it drew a crowd of 1,075.

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What the World Was Watching: ECW Hardcore TV – June 20, 1995

Joey Styles quickly recaps the Tony Stetson-New Jersey Devil, Mikey Whipwreck-Val Puccio, and Vampire Warrior-Hack Myers matches from Barbed Wire, Hoodies & Chokeslams, along with Tod Gordon’s run-ins with Bill Alfonso on the show and Steve Richards creating problems between the Warrior and Tommy Dreamer over Luna Vachon.

Styles urges fans to buy a VHS copy of Barbed Wire, Hoodies & Chokeslams because the barbed wire match between the Sandman and Cactus Jack cannot air on television.

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What the World Was Watching: ECW Barbed Wire, Hoodies & Chokeslams

Joey Styles does commentary for the show, which took place at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 17.  According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the card drew a crowd of 1,150 fans.

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What the World Was Watching: ECW Hardcore TV – June 6, 1995

The Hack Myers-Tony Stetson match from Enter Sandman airs.  Instead of airing a clip job, which would have covered up how bad this match was, ECW opts to show it in its entirety.

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What the World Was Watching: ECW Hardcore TV – April 25, 1995

A replay of the Sandman winning the ECW Championship from Shane Douglas at Hostile City Showdown airs.

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