The Super Summer Sizzler Spectacular was a

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produced by

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Eastern Championship Wrestling HHG Corporation, doing business as Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), was a professional wrestling promotion and media company that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The promotion was founded in 1992 by Tod Gordon as National Wrest ...

(ECW) on June 19, 1993. The event was held in the

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in the United States. The Super Summer Sizzler Spectacular was ECW's first "

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" and the first ECW event to be released on VHS. In 2020, it was added to the

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Event

The commentator for the Super Summer Sizzler Spectacular was Jay Sulli, with guest commentary from Paul E. Dangerously,

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Joey Styles Joseph Carmine Bonsignore (born July 14, 1971) better known by his ring name Joey Styles, is an American former professional wrestling commentator. He is best known for his time with ECW and WWE. Before working for WWE, Styles was a full-time p ...

and

Tod Gordon Tod Gordon (born June 19, 1955, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American businessman. Gordon is the president of Carver W. Reed Co. Inc, a Philadelphia jewelry store and loan office that was established in 1860. He is also the founder of defu ...

. The referees were Jim Molineaux, John Finnegan, and Kevin Christian. The event was attended by approximately 650 people. The opening bout saw Don E. Allen wrestle Herve Renesto to a no contest. This match was not included on the VHS release. In the first match to appear on the VHS release,

ECW Television Champion The ECW World Television Championship was a professional wrestling television championship in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). It was introduced in 1992 as part of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliate and ECW precursor, Eastern Champio ...

Jimmy Snuka James Reiher Snuka (born James Wiley Smith; May 18, 1943 – January 15, 2017) was a Fijian American professional wrestler. He is better known by the ring name Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. Snuka wrestled for several promotions from the 1970s to 2010 ...

defended his championship in a bout with J.T. Smith, defeating him with the ''

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''. In the third bout, former

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partners

Larry Winters Larry Winters (April 14, 1956 – January 27, 2015) was an American professional wrestler and trainer who competed in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and East Coast independent circuit during the 1980s and 90s. He has wrestled in the American Wrestlin ...

and

Tony Stetson Anthony Matteo (born March 21, 1959) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Hitman" Tony Stetson. He is best known for his time in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) during the 1990s. Stetson was one of ECW's ini ...

faced one another in a

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. The match ended when

Rockin' Rebel Charles Williams (January 13, 1966 – June 1, 2018) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Rockin' Rebel. He was best known for his appearances on the U.S. independent circuit with promotions such as Eastern Cham ...

came to ringside and distracted Winters, enabling Stetson to hit him with a chain wrapped around his fist and draw blood. In the fourth bout, Miss Peaches faced Terrible Tigra in a " catfight humiliation match", with the loser being the first woman to be stripped. After both women removed one another's t-shirts, Peaches - with assistance from the debuting Angel - won the match by tearing off Tigra's shorts. Following the match, Stetson and Rockin' Rebel attacked Peaches and Angel, stripping Angel topless before being driven off by Larry Winters and

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. In the fifth bout, Jimmy Snuka (accompanied by his manager, Paul E. Dangerously) defended his ECW Television Championship for a second time, this time against

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. Snuka retained his championship after Dangerously tripped Cairo, enabling Snuka to pin him using a roll-up with his feet on the ring ropes. In the sixth bout, Rockin' Rebel faced the Sandman in a "

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", with Rockin' Rebel pinning the Sandman using a schoolboy after an unnamed

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entered the ring and momentarily blinded the Sandman with

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. The seventh bout was scheduled to be between

Dark Patriot Douglas Gilbert (born February 5, 1969) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with regional professional wrestling promotions throughout the Southern United States, as well as for Extreme Championship Wrestlin ...

and

Dick Murdoch Hoyt Richard Murdoch (August 16, 1946 – June 15, 1996) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names "Dirty" Dick Murdoch and "Captain Redneck". He was best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation and New Jap ...

. Before the match, Dark Patriot's manager, Paul E. Dangerously, announced that he was unavailable and introduced the masked Dark Patriot II as his substitute. Murdoch went on to defeat Dark Patriot II with a roll-up. The eighth bout was a

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pitting

Sal Bellomo Salvatore Bellomo (June 18, 1951 – February 9, 2019) was a Belgian professional wrestler. His career spanned over 40 years; he is perhaps best known for his appearances in the United States with the World Wrestling Federation in the 1980s and wi ...

, Super Destroyer #1, and Stevie Wonderful (substituting for Super Destroyer #2) against

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the Suicide Blondes ( Sir Jonathan Hotbody and Sir Richard Michaels) and Hunter Q. Robbins III. The match ended after Bellomo delivered a '' Pizza Splash'' to Michaels and pinned him. The main event was a " Texas Chain Match Massacre" between "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert (accompanied by Paul E. Dangerously) and

, with the winner to be named "King of Philadelphia". The match saw the two competitors chained together at the wrist, with the winner being the first man to touch all four

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s consecutively. Towards the end of the match, Funk succeeded in touching all four turnbuckles, but was not named as winner by referee Kevin Christian. Subsequently, Gilbert hit Funk with a chair and then gave him a piledriver on the chair, enabling him to touch all four corners and win. After the match, Dangerously revealed that Kevin Christian was in fact "Freddie Gilbert", Eddie Gilbert's brother, and had cheated on his behalf. Following the match, Funk and ECW commissioner

brawled with Gilbert and Dangerously, after which Funk gave Gordon the "King of Philadelphia" crown and cut a promo praising ECW.

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