http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRFqhmm9xHA The ECW faithful were probably the most cheerfully deranged fans of professional wrestling anyone had ever seen in the United States by the mid-to-late nineties: baying for blood, tables and tears with an almost evangelical fervour. The Hardcore Heaven show in August 1994, promoted by Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW before they added the Extreme to their name), saw the main event pit southern wrestling legend Terry Funk against the up and coming madman Cactus Jack, better known these days under his real name, Mick Foley. Their match came to a no-contest when white-boy hip hop outfit The Public Enemy, fresh from retaining their ECW tag team belts against the Bad Breed, attacked both competitors in the ring. The telling moment comes when Cactus Jack calls for the audience to throw him a chair to use, leading to a classic case of be careful what you ask for, as fans began to hurl folding chairs into the ring and all over the prone Public Enemy. At least eighty chairs reached the ring by the time the cameras were turned off, despite the announcers desperately trying to maintain order by pleading with fans not to throw any more chairs. The Public Enemy would be famous for another crowd-baiting stunt in late 1995, when they invited the crowd to celebrate and dance with them in the ring, leading to its collapse under the total weight of so many people.
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