Taking place in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 1995 edition of ECW Hostile City Showdown is the second of the Hostile City Showdown events from the old ECW, and man, is it mid.
Starting with a singles bout between Steve Richards and Mikey Whipwreck, the card for this one is mostly bad matches. One of these bad matches is a bout between Tony Stetson and Tsubo Genjin, which was noting more than a throwaway match, as Genjin won in less than a minute (as it was revealed the match was nothing more than to film footage of Genjin winning for a Japanese movie he was in, which makes the bout feel like it was a last-minute addition to the event's match card), and Ian Rotten and Axel Rotten's match felt more like a boring hardcore match, despite a barbed-wire baseball bat being used as a weapon, was nothing more than yet another bust that does nothing more than have ECW have its shock value added in (as barbed wire is not something to be taken lightly when used in the way the two used it). The only good matches I saw were Raven Vs. Tommy Dreamer, which was better done (as it was part of a rivalry, and they use everything to pummel each other, even a kitchen sink), and the ECW World Television Championship Match between Eddie Guererro and Dean Malenko, which despite the ending, proves both Eddie and Dean were two of the hottest new wrestlers at the time.
Starting with a singles bout between Steve Richards and Mikey Whipwreck, the card for this one is mostly bad matches. One of these bad matches is a bout between Tony Stetson and Tsubo Genjin, which was noting more than a throwaway match, as Genjin won in less than a minute (as it was revealed the match was nothing more than to film footage of Genjin winning for a Japanese movie he was in, which makes the bout feel like it was a last-minute addition to the event's match card), and Ian Rotten and Axel Rotten's match felt more like a boring hardcore match, despite a barbed-wire baseball bat being used as a weapon, was nothing more than yet another bust that does nothing more than have ECW have its shock value added in (as barbed wire is not something to be taken lightly when used in the way the two used it). The only good matches I saw were Raven Vs. Tommy Dreamer, which was better done (as it was part of a rivalry, and they use everything to pummel each other, even a kitchen sink), and the ECW World Television Championship Match between Eddie Guererro and Dean Malenko, which despite the ending, proves both Eddie and Dean were two of the hottest new wrestlers at the time.
Tell Your Friends