ECW Heat Wave

**ECW Heat Wave**, known as **NXT Heatwave** since 2022. is a series of professional wrestling events that was first made by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1994 to 2000. ECW began making it a pay-per-view starting in 1998. In 2022, WWE (which bought ECW in 2003) brought back the event's name for their NXT brand.

### 1994

**Heat Wave 1994: The Battle for The Future** took place on July 16, 1994 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first Heat Wave event held by ECW.

### 1995

**Heat Wave 1995: Rage In The Cage!** took place on July 15, 1995 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the second Heat Wave event held by ECW.

### 1996

**Heat Wave 1996** took place on July 13, 1996 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the third Heat Wave event that ECW produced. The event was only available on the internet.

#### Four-Way Dance eliminations

|Elimination no.|Wrestler|Eliminated by|Elimination move|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Chris Jericho|2 Cold Scorpio|Pinfall|27:00|
|2|2 Cold Scorpio|Pitbull #2|Pinfall|31:00|
|3|Pitbull #2|Shane Douglas|Pinfall|40:47|
|colspan="5" bgcolor="#f2f2f2"|Shane Douglas||||

### 1997

**Heat Wave 1997** took place on July 19, 1997 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the fourth Heat Wave event made by ECW.

### 1998

**Heat Wave 1998** took place on August 2, 1998 at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio. It was the fifth Heat Wave event made by ECW and the first to be broadcast on pay-per-view. The event also featured talent from Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW).

### 1999

**Heat Wave 1999** took place on July 18, 1999 at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio. It was the sixth Heat Wave event made by ECW.

### 2000

**Heat Wave 2000** took place on July 16, 2000 at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. It was the seventh Heat Wave event and the last to be made by ECW.

### 2022

**NXT Heatwave** **2022** took place on August 16, 2022, at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida as a special episode of the _NXT_ TV series on the USA Network.

### 2023

**NXT Heatwave** **2023** took place on August 22, 2023, at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida as a special episode of the _NXT_ TV series on the USA Network.

### 2024

**NXT Heatwave** **2024** took place on July 7, 2024, on the weekend of Money in the Bank. It happened at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, making this the biggest arena to host a Heatwave event. It now was held as a livestreaming event on Peacock in the U.S. and the WWE Network elsewhere.

## Related pages

- Extreme Championship Wrestling
- WWE NXT

## Infobox (wrestling ppv series)

- **name**: Heat Wave
- **promotions**: Extreme Championship Wrestling (1994–2000)
WWE (2022–present)
- **brands**: WWE NXT, NXT (2022–present)
- **firstevent**: Heat Wave (1994)


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Heatwave '94
- **promotion**: Extreme Championship Wrestling, Eastern Championship Wrestling
- **date**: July 16, 1994
- **liveevent**: Y
- **venue**: ECW Arena
- **city**: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- **attendance**: 850
- **lastevent**: Hostile City Showdown (1994)
- **nextevent**: Hardcore Heaven (1994)
- **event**: Heat Wave
- **lastevent2**: ***First***
- **nextevent2**: #1995, Heat Wave (1995)
- **tagline**: The Battle for the Future


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Heat Wave (1995)
- **tagline**: Rage in the Cage!
- **promotion**: Extreme Championship Wrestling
- **date**: July 15, 1995
- **date aired**: July 18, 1995
- **liveevent**: Y
- **venue**: ECW Arena
- **city**: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- **attendance**: 1,000
- **lastevent**: Hardcore Heaven (1995)
- **nextevent**: Wrestlepalooza (1995)
- **event**: Heat Wave
- **lastevent2**: #1994, Heat Wave '94
- **nextevent2**: #1996, Heat Wave (1996)


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Heat Wave (1996)
- **promotion**: Extreme Championship Wrestling
- **date**: July 13, 1996
- **date aired**: July 16, 23, and 30, 1996
- **venue**: ECW Arena
- **city**: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- **attendance**: 1,500
- **lastevent**: Hardcore Heaven (1996)
- **nextevent**: ECW The Doctor Is In, The Doctor Is In
- **liveevent**: y
- **event**: Heat Wave
- **lastevent2**: #1995, Heat Wave (1995)
- **nextevent2**: #1997, Heat Wave (1997)


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Heat Wave (1997)
- **promotion**: Extreme Championship Wrestling
- **date**: July 19, 1997
- **date aired**: July 24, 1997
- **venue**: ECW Arena
- **city**: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- **attendance**: 1,600
- **liveevent**: Y
- **lastevent**: ECW Barely Legal, Barely Legal
- **nextevent**: Hardcore Heaven (1997), Hardcore Heaven
- **lastevent2**: #1996, Heat Wave (1996)
- **nextevent2**: #1998, Heat Wave (1998)
- **event**: Heat Wave


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Heat Wave 1998
- **promotion**: Extreme Championship Wrestling
- **date**: August 2, 1998
- **venue**: Hara Arena
- **city**: Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio
- **lastevent**: Wrestlepalooza#1998, Wrestlepalooza 1998
- **nextevent**: November to Remember#1998, November to Remember 1998


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Heat Wave (1999)
- **promotion**: Extreme Championship Wrestling
- **date**: July 18, 1999
- **venue**: Hara Arena
- **city**: Dayton, Ohio
- **attendance**: 3,400
- **lastevent**: Hardcore Heaven (1999)
- **nextevent**: Anarchy Rulz (1999)
- **event**: Heat Wave
- **lastevent2**: #1998, Heat Wave (1998)
- **nextevent2**: #2000, Heat Wave (2000)


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Heat Wave (2000)
- **promotion**: Extreme Championship Wrestling
- **date**: July 16, 2000
- **venue**: Grand Olympic Auditorium
- **city**: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- **attendance**: 5,700
- **lastevent**: Hardcore Heaven (2000)
- **nextevent**: Anarchy Rulz (2000)
- **event**: Heat Wave
- **lastevent2**: #1999, Heat Wave (1999)
- **nextevent2**: #2022, NXT Heatwave (2022)


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: NXT Heatwave (2022)
- **promotion**: WWE
- **brand**: WWE NXT, NXT
- **date**: August 16, 2022
- **venue**: WWE Performance Center
- **city**: Orlando, Florida
- **event**: WWE NXT, _NXT_ special episodes
- **lastevent2**: NXT: The Great American Bash (2022)
- **nextevent2**: NXT: New Year's Evil (2023)
- **event2**: Heat Wave
- **lastevent3**: #2000, Heat Wave (2000)
- **nextevent3**: #2023, NXT Heatwave (2023)


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: NXT Heatwave (2023)
- **promotion**: WWE
- **brand**: NXT
- **date**: August 22, 2023
- **venue**: WWE Performance Center
- **city**: Orlando, Florida
- **event**: _NXT_ special episodes
- **lastevent2**: NXT Gold Rush, Gold Rush
- **nextevent2**: NXT Halloween Havoc (2023)
- **event2**: Heatwave
- **lastevent3**: #2022, NXT Heatwave (2022)
- **nextevent3**: #2024, NXT Heatwave (2024)


## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: NXT Heatwave (2024)
- **promotion**: WWE
- **brand**: NXT
- **date**: July 7, 2024
- **attendance**: 9,132
- **venue**: Scotiabank Arena
- **city**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **wwenlast**: Money in the Bank (2024), Money in the Bank
- **wwennext**: SummerSlam (2024), SummerSlam
- **event**: Heatwave
- **lastevent2**: #2023, NXT Heatwave (2023)
- **event2**: NXT major events
- **lastevent3**: NXT Battleground (2024)
- **nextevent3**: NXT No Mercy (2024)