In this week’s episode of The Pro Wrasslin’ Reflection Podcast…  ECW Heatwave 98!

Billy Ray Valentine, "The Professor" Anthony Quintana & 8-Trac Brown “The Dirtiest Of The City” review this classic event!

• In world of Professional Wrestling, Heat Wave was an event held by the Philidelphia, Pensylvania, United States-based professional wrestling organization Eastern Championship Wrestling / Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) annually from 1994 to 2000. The 1998, 1999 and 2000 iterations of Heat Wave aired on pay-per-view (PPV), while the 1997 iteration was an Internet pay-per-view (iPPV). The footage from the seven Heat Wave events is owned by WWE This edition of Heatwave has been argued to be one of ECW’s best all-time!

• Additional P.P.V. information:

Name of the event: ECW Heat Wave 1998

Date: 02/08/98

Promotion: Extreme Championship Wrestling

Type: Pay Per View

Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA

Arena: Hara Arena

Attendance: 4,376

Broadcast type: Live

Broadcast date: 02/08/98

Commentary by: Joey Styles & Shane Douglas

PPV buy rate (relative): 0.25

 This events match card goes as follows: 

• Singles Match - Jerry Lynn vs. Justin Credible (w/Chastity, Jason & Nicole Bass)

• Singles Match - Chris Candido (w/Tammy Lynn Sytch) vs. Lance Storm

• Singles Match - Masato Tanaka vs. Mike Awesome

• ECW World Tag Team Title Match - Rob Van Dam & Sabu (w/Bill Alfonso) (c) vs. Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki

• FTW Heavyweight Title Falls Count Anywhere Match - Taz (c) vs. Bam Bam Bigelow

• Six Man Tag Team Street Fight - Spike Dudley, The Sandman & Tommy Dreamer vs. The Dudleys (Big Dick Dudley, Bubba Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley) (w/Jeff Jones, Joel Gertner & Sign Guy Dudley)