Hostile City Showdown (1994)

Hostile City Showdown (1994)
The ECW Arena.
PromotionNWA Eastern Championship Wrestling
DateJune 24, 1994
CityPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, US
VenueECW Arena
Attendance1,000
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1995

Hostile City Showdown (1994) was the first Hostile City Showdown professional wrestling event produced by Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW). It took place on June 24, 1994 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.

The main event of Hostile City Showdown was a heavily promoted "dream match" between the hardcore wrestlers Cactus Jack and Sabu. Cactus Jack, an employee of World Championship Wrestling and then-WCW World Tag Team Champion, participated in the event as part of a talent exchange brokered between ECW and WCW by Todd Gordon and Kevin Sullivan. Cactus Jack suffered herniated discs during the match and subsequently developed hives over fifty percent of his body; he was briefly hospitalized.[1][2][3][4] The bout appeared on the 2007 WWE DVD release Mick Foley: Greatest Hits & Misses.

Although not airing on pay-per-view, in July 2019 the event was added to the WWE Network, in the ECW pay-per-view section.[5]

  1. ^ Thom Loverro (22 May 2007). The Rise & Fall of ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling. Simon & Schuster. pp. 61–63. ISBN 978-1-4165-6156-9.
  2. ^ Mick Foley (1 October 2000). Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks. Turtleback Books. ISBN 978-0-613-33590-4.
  3. ^ Scott E. Williams (January 2006). Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorized Story of the ECW. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-1-59670-021-5.
  4. ^ "Sabu vs. Cactus Jack: Hostile City Showdown 1994". WWE.com. WWE. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  5. ^ Coulson, Steve (2019-07-15). "ECW Supershows Officially Added To WWE Network Archives As July's Classic Content – Links Included". WWE Network News. Retrieved 2019-07-15.