Extreme Countdown (1998)

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Extreme Countdown 1998 was the fourth Extreme Countdown event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling which took place on 13th June 1998

## Background

The main match heading into the show is the Extreme Rumble Match, in which the winner will be getting a ECW Heaviweight Championship shot at Wrestlepalooza.

Raven will defend his ECW heaviweight championship against Rob Van Dam. At Fuck Mania 4, RVD and Jerry Lynn defeated Sabu and Taz with RVD getting the winning pinfall so he became the NO1 contender, Lynn and RVD were trying to launch a new breed of ECW and introduced themselves to Heyman but Heyman reminded Lynn that RVD came into ECW as a WWF mole and if he wins the title, he'll just take it to WWF, Jerry Lynn has started to be doubtful of RVD and doesn't know what he's gonna do if he wins the title but RVD keeps attacking Raven even teaming up with Old Breeds like The Sandman which pissed off Lynn even further

Mike Awesome started trying to get a tag team partner to do something of noteworthy in ECW, he introduced Masato Tanaka and after 2 matches where they showed they had great chemistry together, Awesome turned heel on Tanaka and said the awesome era had begun. Awesome ended up winning the TV Championship and Tanaka returned, he didn't want that title YET, all he wanted was to get revenge on Awesome so he accepted a non title match at Hardcore Heaven which Tanaka managed to luck out and win. Awesome continued targeting Tanaka throught the weeks as Heyman tried to talk to him but he always shut him off, Heyman finally revealed that Awesome didn't defend the title for 30 days due to his obssession with Tanaka and was stripped off the belt, Awesome challenged Tanaka to a 2nd match and due to all the pain caused by him, Tanaka wasn't at 100 percent and lost their second match but Tanaka promised that as soon as he recovered from his injuries, he would have the tiebreaker against Awesome. They had it at Fuck Mania IV and within 30 minutes of war, Awesome and Tanaka both passed out from exhaustion and the match ended in a draw. Both men promised that when they came back they would fight each other again, Paul Heyman decided to have this be a best of seven with the winner getting an ECW Heaviweight title shot and tonight will be their fourth match

Jerry Lynn and RVD blamed Dudley Boyz for also being part of the Old Breed that had to be taken out of ECW, Lynn wanted to team up with RVD but RVD said he had to focus on his title match which Lynn accepted but he started mistrusting RVD shortly after that

Rising Speed were trying to get the 6 men tag titles from Triple Threat while Triple Threat were trying to get the tag titles from Rising Speed, Rising Speed defeated Triple Threat to retain the tag titles at Fuck Mania 4 and they ended up challening them to another match but to unify both the 6 men and tag belts which Triple Threat accepted

## Results

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## Details

* Jerry Lynn says he found no tag partner so he has to do his match handicap, RVD comes out saying he's here for Lynn, they win and shake hands as they're back together
* Awesome once again top rope powerbombs Tanaka and he needs to be stretchered out as Awesome wins by KO
* RVD hits a 2nd five star frog splash but Heyman hits him with a steelchair for Raven to retain
* Number 20 is Justin Credible but TOMMY DREAMER suddenly hits Credible with a chairshot as he runs to the ring with multiple security chasing him, Dreamer gets some security out as he also eliminated Dudley Boyz, Dreamer clothslines Douglas out of there and runs away with the contract through the crowd, the unsigned Tommy Dreamer is the extreme rumble winner???