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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: THE FIRST SHOW AT THE ECW ARENA

May 14th

On this day in ....

1993 - The very first show ever held at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania took place.  It was the first of two consecutive days of television tapings and saw the following results:
- Road Warrior Hawk beat The Samoan Warrior & Donn E. Allen in a handicap match when he pinned both.
- Tommy Cairo won a battle royal to become the first ECW Pennsylvania Champion.
- ECW Tag Team Champions Chris Candido & Johnny Hotbody beat Tommy Cairo & Glen Osbourne when Osbourne was pinned.
- ECW Champion Don Muraco beat Mr. Sandman via countout.
- Road Warrior Hawk beat ECW TV Champion Jimmy Snuka via DQ.
- ECW Tag Team Champions Chris Candido & Johnny Hotbody vs. The Super Destroyers ended in a double DQ.
- Eddie Gilbert beat Herve Renesto in a chain match.
- Terry Funk beat The Dark Patriot via DQ.
- ECW Champion Don Muraco pinned Tommy Cairo.
- The Dark Patriot beat JT Smith via countout.
- Mr. Sandman & Larry Winters beat Tony Stetson & Rockin' Rebel when Sandman pinned Rebel.
- Sal Bellomo & The Super Destroyers vs. Richard Michaels, Chris Candido, & Johnny Hotbody ended in a no-contest as a huge brawl broke out.

2000 - ECW held their Hardcore Heaven Pay-per-view in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Here are the results:
- Masato Tanaka pinned Balls Mahoney.
- Little Guido beat Mikey Whipwreck and Simon Diamond  in a three way dance.  During the match, power was lost in the building, and only spotlights were used to illuminate the ring.
- Kid Kash pinned CW Anderson.
- Chris Chetti & Nova beat Tony DeVito & Angel and Danny Doring & Amish Roadkill in a three way dance.
- New Jack pinned Angel.
- Yoshihiro Tajiri pinned Steve Corino.
- ECW TV Champion Rhino pinned Sandman.
- Jerry Lynn pinned Rob Van Dam.
- ECW Champion Justin Credible pinned Lance Storm.  Tommy Dreamer was originally supposed to wrestle in the match, but Credible threatened to walk out of the company with the title if it wasn't changed to a singles match with Storm.  It was Storm's final ECW match. 

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