ECW vs WWF

## ECW vs WWF (1996)

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ECW vs WWF was was a professional wrestling event produced by World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling which took place on 6th October 1996

## Background

At Wrestlepalooza, after Taz defeated Sabu to retain the ECW Heaviweight Championship, Taz made his intentions clear as WWF tried signing him to a contract and he refused, he was tired of WWF stealing the ECW talent and claiming they created them and led an invasion against them at Summerslam as they attacked everyone. Owner of ECW had a simple challenge, if an ECW guy could defeat WWF Champion Vader at In Your House 21, they would get an ECW vs WWF show against them, Jerry Lawler accepted and at In Your House 21 Terry Funk defeated Vader to get this match

The main event is a huge bout as it's gonna be Vader vs Taz for both the WWF and ECW Heaviweight Championships. When ECW invaded at Summerslam, Vader came out to stop them and Taz told everyone to get out of the ring just for a huge staredown between the 2, Taz decided to leave but not before throwing a middle finger towards Vader, this match will be very heated as it's in front of a philly crowd and it's nearly impossible that the WWF title will be given to an ECW guy

Lawler and Heyman have invaded each other's shows as much as they can, Heyman didn't believe Lawler was good fit as comissioner of WWF and challenged him to a match, Lawler accepted and revealed that there was a mole within the ECW roster, someone that has been with WWF since signing with ECW and is only trying to destroy it, Heyman got paranoid at this and suspended Bam Bam Bigelow and Dudley Boyz as the 3 big suspects of being the mole

Terry Funk wanted a legend to face him in this show so he called out the longest WWF and Intercontinental champion of all time Bret Hart who made his first appearence since Summerslam simply to accept and to punch Terry in the mouth

Rocky Maivia made his first WWF appearence right after the segment where ECW invaded as they showed Rocky in the crowd and promoted him as Rocky Johnson's son and a big talent that would make his debut in the G1, because of the philly crowd being heated after ECW invaded, they chanted "fuck that kid" as soon as the camera was on him. Tommy Dreamer DDT'd Maivia and decided to challenge the "overhyped rookie"

Blue World Order have been huge since their debut in may getting really over with the crowd, they will face the newest stable that was just formed due to them betraying Ministry of Darkness: Faaroq, Papa Shango and Mark Henry

Sabu wanted an equally crazy man as his challenge so he decided to fight the maniac Mankind

Stone Cold and Brian Pillman have been feuding since Pillman's arrival to WWF due to their long history together, Austin decided Pillman's match would be against Austin's partner when he was in ECW: RAVEN

British Bulldog challenged Shane Douglas as he felt like he was the only legit wrestling talent in a company full of deathmatch screwups that will kill themselves one day

## Details

* Mankind vs Sabu is the definition of extreme, tables on fire, barbed wire, the match ends with Sabu diving off the stage onto Mankind as both of them fall through barbed wire
* Rocky starts getting chants of "die Rocky die" during this
* Austin shows up on Pillman vs Raven to a loud pop from the ECW crowd, the only WWF guy who got a pop, Austin beats up Pillman and then proceeds to also stunner Raven
* The new stable introduces themselves as Nation of Domination. Papa Shango renames himself as Kama Mustafa
* Lawler vs Heyman has a lot of interference by the ECW and WWF roster because Heyman can't wrestle. The match ends with everyone down and Rob Van Dam doing a five star frog splash to Heyman revealing himself as the WWF mole as he puts Lawler on top of Heyman and lets him be pinned
* After the match, Terry Funk asks what the hell just happened and RVD beats him up as Bret comes out for his match against a groggy Funk
* Vader wins to a legit riot from the crowd as they start throwing chairs into the ring, Vader quickly gets out of there with security before he dies