Hardcore Heaven (2000)
Hardcore Heaven (2000) was the sixth and final Hardcore Heaven professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The event took place on May 14, 2000 at The Rave in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The commentators for the event were Joey Styles, Joel Gertner and Cyrus. Nine professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Justin Credible successfully defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Lance Storm. On the undercard, Jerry Lynn defeated Rob Van Dam, who returned to ECW after a three-month absence since vacating the World Television Championship in March. The event also featured Rhino successfully defending the World Television Championship against The Sandman. Storylines The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television programs Hardcore TV and ECW on TNN. In a very bizarre moment, the World Heavyweight Champion Mike Awesome jumped ship to World Championship Wrestling (WCW) but ECW booked then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF) superstar and a former ECW superstar Taz to defeat Awesome for the World Heavyweight Championship, with assistance by Tommy Dreamer on April 13. At CyberSlam, Dreamer defeated Tazz to win the World Heavyweight Championship and then Raven came to congratulate him followed by the one half of the World Tag Team Champions Justin Credible attacking both men and then throwing down the World Tag Team Championship belt and challenging Dreamer to an impromptu match for the title, which Credible won after Dreamer's valet Francine turned on Dreamer. On the May 5 episode of ECW on TNN, Credible's former Impact Players tag team partner Lance Storm confronted him for throwing down the World Tag Team Championship and disrespecting ECW and their tag team and threatened to take the title from Credible and then a brawl ensued as Raven attacked Credible and Storm took down Raven and then Tommy Dreamer came out and brawled with Credible through the audience while Storm defeated Kid Kash. The following week, on ECW on TNN, Credible interfered in Storm's match against Jerry Lynn until Dreamer came out and brawled with Credible and Storm took out both men by diving over the top rope onto both of them, leading to a match between the three for the title at Hardcore Heaven. At Living Dangerously, Super Crazy defeated Rhino in the final of a tournament to win the vacant World Television Championship after Scotty Anton and Rob Van Dam prevented The Network from interfering on Rhino's behalf. On the March 24 episode of ECW on TNN, Crazy successfully defended the title against Network member Yoshihiro Tajiri in a Japanese Deathmatch and then Network attacked Crazy and The Sandman, who rushed to Crazy's rescue. Crazy then successfully defended the title against Rhino on the following week's ECW on TNN and then Network assaulted Crazy and Sandman once again. On the April 14 episode of ECW on