Heatwave (1998)

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Heatwave 1998 was the second Heatwave event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling which took place on 18th July 1998

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Tommy Dreamer vs Paul Heyman's representative who is yet to be revealed. Raven defeated Dreamer at Hardcore Heaven with a rollup to end his ECW career, over the months Paul Heyman would align himself with Raven as he had always hated Heyman and was proud of Raven for what he did, Dreamer suddenly showed up at the Extreme Rumble as he attacked number 20 Justin Credible and proceeded to eliminate Shane Douglas to become the supposed winner, Heyman didn't count it as a win since Dreamer wasn't an official signed ECW wrestler but Dreamer had the contract so his title match was set for Wrestlepalooza. Heyman said he'd put his ownership job on the line just for Dreamer to not come back to ECW and Dreamer challenged him to a match with those exact states, if Heyman's representative wins, Dreamer is gone for good and doesn't get the title match at Wrestlepalooza, if Dreamer wins, Heyman is gone as owner of ECW and he is officially signed to ECW again

TV Champion Lance Storm won a 10 men battle royal to become NO1 contender to Raven's ECW Heaviweight championship tonight, these 2 have history together as a year ago Storm managed to defeat Raven but wasn't able to defeat Raven's lackey Tommy Dreamer which was the catalyst for Dreamer turning on Raven, Raven will try to get his win back tonight

Little Guido has recently become way scarier with New Jack's return as he took his hammer and beat New Jack up as much as he could, his tag partner Kid Kash had to stop him before he killed New Jack, due to this new found aggression Kash and Guido rose up the ranks of the tag division and challenged Dudley Boyz to a match for the tag titles who accepted as even they were scared of this version of Guido, they managed to defeat them to win the tag titles at November to Remember. During a defense against Impact Players, Guido was about to use the hammer on Bobby Duncum but Kash stopped him and let Guido be rolled up for them to lose the titles, Kash said he'd rather lose the titles than have his friend succum to darkness but Guido responded with a beatdown on Kash, they fought in a scaffold match at December to Dismember which ended with Guido throwing Kash off 40 feet through many tables and through the ring as he smiled like a maniac. Kash's new tag partners Tajiri and Super Crazy kept trying to get revenge but kept failing, Kash returned but it was clear he was afraid of what Guido had become as he ran away everytime Guido showed up, Guido wanted to crush Kash one last time but Tajiri and Crazy said they would have to go through them first in a gauntlet match

Taz started being aligned with Tama, Sandman and Sabu as the New Breed challenged their position on ECW, at the Extreme Rumble match Tama eliminated Taz and Taz took him out of the ring to beat him up, this led to a feud which will end tonight

Triple Threat were tired of all the blood and guts of ECW and wanted real wrestling, they said Sandman and Sabu were the worst kinds of wrestlers and challenged them to a match

## Results

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## Details

* Triple Threat celebrate saying the wrestling era has begun, Eastern Championship Wrestling has returned
* Paul Heyman's representative is a former ECW, WWF and WCW Heaviweight champion Vader