Heatwave (1996)

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Heatwave 1996 was the first Heatwave event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling which took place on 25th May 1996

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Meng vs Tama in a stretcher match. Meng challenged Tama to 7 matches with 7 different stipulations and whoever won the best of seven series would become ECW Heaviweight champion, Meng won the first blood match, the scaffold match and the ring of fire match while Tama won the steel cage match, Tama and Meng started this series as friends but have started getting more and more agressive actually trying to injure and kill each other. If Meng manages to win tonight in this stretcher match, Meng will win the series and become ECW Heaviweight champion

Raven, Dreamer and Sandman have been in a constant feud since 1995, in early 1996 this spiced up as Sandman betrayed Dreamer just to get a TV title shot against Raven in which he didn't manage to win as Dreamer returned and made sure both men were beaten up. At A Matter of Respect, Sandman pinned Raven and Dreamer was pissed at that so he pinned Sandman to win the TV title in a threeway dance, all Dreamer wants to do is pin Raven. At Fuck Mania II, Raven won back the TV title from Dreamer and tonight Sandman wants to get revenge for Dreamer as they're "bois" again

Bam Bam Bigelow challenged Dreamer to put his career on the line against him and since Dreamer never backs down from a fight, he accepted, this match got more interesting as Bam Bam shockingly joined Raven to form the second iteration of his cult

Dangerous Alliance will hold an open challenge for the 6 men tag team titles tonight

Rotten Balls started a feud with New Jack as they saved Mustafa Saed from him, they say that New Jack should be fuckin fired from ECW and tonight they'll have a match

Rob Van Dam and Terry Funk recently started teaming up as they're managing to beat ECW's biggest teams, they have a mentor-protege relationship, they will get their first ever ECW tag title shot tonight

## Results

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Fifth match in the Best of Seven series
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## Details

* Dreamer calls Raven a son of a bitch and gets attacked by The Eliminators right after
* New Jack throws Balls through a table but Rotten manages to send him through a table so technically Rotten Balls win
* Raven makes Bam Bam bow down to him so he can Raven effect him concluding his ritual to enter Raven's Cult
* Tama starts rolling Meng, he's about to get him through the line, Meng kicks him and quickly puts him on the stretcher and is about to win but he decides not to "luck out", he throws the stretcher down and starts beating up Tama to make sure he can't get up, Meng starts headbutting him but so does Tama, after 11 headbutts Meng falls towards the stretcher and he just doesn't get up as Tama rolls the stretcher and crosses the line to win this match
* Dangerous Alliance do an open challenge, out comes Stevie Richards, Nova and The Blue Meanie but they come out with Blue World Order shirts and flags as they do a promo saying they're the Blue Guy, Big Stevie Cool and Hollywood Nova which gets a big pop