10 Times Wrestling Shows Became Total Anarchy
9. This Is Hardcore Heaven, And I'd Die For It (ECW, 1994)
The main event of Hardcore Heaven 1994 saw Cactus Jack and Terry Funk brawl to a no-contest after interference from Public Enemy.
The attack forced the duo of hardcore legends to temporarily fix their strained friendship and combat Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock. Though they did more than an adequate job, Foley and Funk decided audience participation would cap the pay-per-view off nicely.
Asking such of your audience is always risky in any performance, let alone one that titillates its fandom with acts of extreme violence.
Cactus and Funk requested steel chairs from the crowd who overenthusiastically complied. To build on an old maxim with lyrics from The Who: “too much of anything is too much”. This is particularly true when it comes to the tossing of steel chairs.
While the two hardcore icons were able to dodge from an upright position, the downed Public Enemy were left prone and vulnerable on the mat. They were quickly buried underneath a mound of chairs – a burial somehow less painful than the one handed to them by the Acolytes when they reached the promised land of WWE.
It is no coincidence that Extreme replaced Eastern in the company's name shortly after this incident.