Acid-Fest: A Tribute to Trent Acid was an interpromotional
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Combat Zone Wrestling
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(CZW) and
Jersey All Pro Wrestling
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1997
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(JAPW)
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s, which took place on July 10, 2010, at the
Viking Hall
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in
South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Trent Acid
Michael Verdi (November 12, 1980 – June 18, 2010), best known by his ring name Trent Acid, was an American professional wrestler.
He worked as a tag team wrestler for most of his career, primarily as part of The Backseat Boyz with Johnny Kashm ...
, one-half of the
independent wrestling
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tag team
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The Backseat Boyz
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with
Johnny Kashmere
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, who died of an accidental drug overdose at his home in Philadelphia less than a month before. It was the second such event held at the venue following the Pitbull/Public Enemy Memorial Cup, an event The Backseat Boyz had participated at, in 2006. It was the 106th wrestling event held by CZW in the building, once known as the ECW Arena, surpassing the record number of events held by
Extreme Championship Wrestling
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. Six
professional wrestling matches
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were featured on the event's
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with all the participants being among Acid's closest friends in the industry.
Show
The
main event
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was a standard wrestling match between Johnny Kashmere and Devon Moore. Kashmere was accompanied to the ring by Donnie B, a retired
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and owner of
Phoenix Championship Wrestling
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, who agreed to make a one-time appearance at the event. It was Donnie who had paired the two together earlier in their careers. The match was originally scheduled to be a
Three-Way Dance
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between Kashmere, Moore and CZW founder
John Zandig
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, however, Zandig was forced to pull out when he was seriously injured in a car accident a week before the show.
Another featured match was a four-way tag team elimination match with
The S.A.T.
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,
The Carnage Crew
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,
Da Hit Squad
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and The H8 Club, managed by Dewey Donovan and
Justice Pain
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, which The S.A.T. won; the match was also the first time that Da Hit Squad had wrestled as a team in six years.
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and
B-Boy
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defeated
Sonjay Dutt
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and Ruckus in a tag team match and a 6-person tag team match between Amy Lee, Missy Sampson and Annie Social, as "Acid's Angels", beat Alere Little Feather, Roxxie Cotton and Detox. The event also hosted one of the largest battle royals ever held, involving a "cast of thousands" as one reviewer called it, and included wrestlers from throughout Acid's career from personal friends to his own students. The battle royal was won by Acid's childhood friend Helter Skelter, with manager
Missy Hyatt
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, after eliminating
Big Vito
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.
One of the highlights of the show came when Lou E. Dangerously, in his "Danger Zone" interview segment, gave a short speech to the crowd and brought out
Tod Gordon
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, founder of
Extreme Championship Wrestling
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and co-promoter of Pro Wrestling Unplugged with Kashmere, who both presented a plaque to Trent Acid's parents, for "Acid's lifetime achievements in professional wrestling". He was also unexpectedly inducted into the ECW Arena Hardcore Hall of Fame by CZW owner
D. J. Hyde
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during the event's opening ceremony. The event was free of charge with a suggested $10 minimum donation to the Trent Acid Memorial Fund to help pay for the funeral costs, a fee paid by all the wrestlers that night, and was successful in raising $7,540 by the end of the show. Additional money was raised through merchandise sales of Acid-Fest T-shirts and programs, and a memorabilia auction of a
World Wrestling Entertainment
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watch, designed to look like a spinner belt, donated by
John Cena
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. The show was attended by an estimated 650 to 750 fans and was filmed by several different companies, most notably Smart Mark Video and RF Video, and later released on DVD.