Road Warrior Hawk defeated Keith Scherer by pinfall Smith and Tommy Cairo defeated The Captain and Mike B by pinfall Terry Funk defeated The Kodiak Bear by submission Tommy Dreamer defeated Gino Caruso by pinfall The Public Enemy ( Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) defeated Badd Company ( Pat Tanaka and Paul Diamond) by pinfall The Convict (with Sherri Martel) defeated Jason Knight by pinfallĩ11 defeated Mikey Watson and Paul Lauria by pinfall The Bruise Brothers ( Don Bruise and Ron Bruise) defeated Keith Scherer and The Kodiak Bear by pinfall Jake "The Snake" Roberts defeated "Cowboy" Bob Orton by pinfall The bout saw multiple spectacles, including Funk throwing Sabu into a dumpster and pushing it around the Manhattan Center Sabu dismantling a concession stand and then moonsaulting through the table Funk breaking a glass bottle and the two men brawling into the audience.
The main event was a single match between Sabu and Terry Funk which ended in a double disqualification. Event ĭuring the event, Shane Douglas (accompanied by Missy Hyatt and multiple cheerleaders) gave a promo in which he declared he would be the inaugural World Wrestling Network Heavyweight Champion. The event featured multiple World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation alumni as well as wrestlers from Paul Heyman's Eastern Championship Wrestling promotion. On February 28, 1994, the World Wrestling Network carried out a television taping in the Manhattan Center in New York City, New York in the United States. World Wrestling Network in New York World Wrestling Network in New York īoth Crockett and Heyman had hoped to provide a unique concept of producing televised matches in high-definition television via internet broadcast, using much of ECW's television production and other resources to do so (this is one of the reasons that Eddie Gilbert resigned his position as head booker and left the promotion in September 1993), however, the event was the only HDTV-television taping broadcast and eventually Crockett closed the promotion by the end of the year. The following year, the promotion held its first televised event at the Manhattan Center in New York City on Februwhich featured Road Warrior Hawk and Jake Roberts as well as Public Enemy, Sabu, Terry Funk, Shane Douglas and Missy Hyatt in her first appearance since being fired by WCW.
Holding its first event in Killeen, Texas in August 1993, the show proved moderately successful with 2,156 in attendance.
Heyman, who had recently left on bad terms with WCW, eventually became head booker for the promotion although he and Crockett would eventually part ways due to his commitments to then Eastern Championship Wrestling and ECW's eventual breakaway from the National Wrestling Alliance. In 1993, Crockett began contacting former World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation veterans such as Road Warrior Hawk, Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Paul Heyman.
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