Blood, beer, and barbed wire — the night wrestling stopped pretending to be fake.
The Public Enemy goes to war with The Gangstas. When ECW Champion Sandman defends his title against Cactus Jack, a franchise player makes his presence felt. Plus, Tommy Dreamer & Luna Vachon challenge Raven & Stevie Richards for the ECW Tag Team Championship. Axl and Ian Rotten battle each other in an infamous brutal Taipai Death Match and much more.
Stunts
Taipei Death Match: real glass, real scars, real insanity
Acting
Foley's Cactus Jack: theater of masochism before WWE sanitized him
Direction
Heyman's pacing—matches breathe, then explode
Director
Paul Heyman
Ted Petty
"Flyboy" Rocco Rock
Mike Durham
Johnny Grunge
Jerome Young
New Jack
Jim Fullington
Sandman
Mick Foley
Cactus Jack
Scott Levy
Raven
Michael Manna
Stevie Richards
Tom Laughlin
Tommy Dreamer
Trudy Vachon
Luna Vachon
Peter Senerchia
Taz
Charles Scaggs
2 Cold Scorpio
Brian Knighton
Axl Rotten
John Williams
Ian Rotten
Don Haviland
Hack Meyers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The fluorescent tubes in the Taipei Death Match were legit—no sugar glass—and both Rotten brothers needed stitches. Paul Heyman allegedly kept one shard as a desk ornament.
This event coined the 'extreme' branding that WWE would later trademark and litigate against. Heyman never forgave them; watch for his petty revenge in later storylines.
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