Joey Styles introduces the fans to the show.
Chris Chetti and Jerry Lynn beat The Full Blooded Italians (Tracy Smothers and Little Guido) when "Wildfire" Tommy Rich's interference attempt with his Italian flag backfires after Lynn ducks the flag. After the match, Tommy Rich confronts Little Guido and Tracy Smothers for losing, and Tracy Smothers shoves Tommy Rich to the mat before Little Guido plays peacemaker.
We see a video package of WING Kanemura and Masato Tanaka, both from Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling. Joey Styles notes before the video package is played that nobody has seen WING Kanemura anywhere in the building.
Doug Furnas shows up with Lance Wright. Wright announces that he and his associates up in Stanford, Connecticut have bought out WING Kanemura's contract and told him to stay in Japan, as he has someone who will destroy Masato Tanaka and send him back on the first plane to Japan.
Masato Tanaka beats Doug Furnas after Lance Wright costs Furnas the match by commanding him to stop pinning him and continue to beat him up. After the match, Wright chews Furnas out, telling him that he and Vince McMahon own him and that he is a Superstar. He warns Furnas that once he talks to Jim Ross, Bruce Prichard and Vince McMahon, he will never work on Raw again. Furnas turns his back on Wright, and when Wright confronts him again, Furnas lays Wright out with a clothesline. He then removes the ECW shirt from a timekeeper, calls Wright an errand boy, then tells Wright to tell Vince McMahon to kiss his ass before putting the ECW shirt on and heading to the back.
Joey Styles apologizes to the fans, saying that the Dueling Canes Match between Sabu and The Sandman cannot be aired due to the graphic nature, after complaints from the pay-per-view companies. The match will be aired on ECW home video and shown on TV as much as the syndicates will allow. Styles is then surrounded by Nicole Bass and Jason, who tell him to play the tape of "The Innovator of Violence" Tommy Dreamer coming to the arena earlier today. Tommy is seen with a bulldog, but without Beulah McGillicutty.
"Mr. Monday Night" Rob Van Dam beats Flash Funk, who shows up at this event under his original 2 Cold Scorpio name. During the match, referee John Finegan tries to back Rob Van Dam off from Scorpio, and Scorpio boots both the ref and RVD. RVD moves out of the way as Scorpio hits Finegan with a splash, and RVD tries to use Scorpio's 450 splash against him only to miss big. Scorpio hits the 450 splash, but Finegan is still out, and Sabu runs into the ring and hits Scorpio in the back of the head with a steel chair with an Arabian Facebuster. The ref comes to after this, but Scorpio kicks out and The Sandman rushes into the arena to chase Sabu back into the locker room. Despite a comeback from Scorpio, Rob Van Dam is able to roll Scorpio up for the win. After the match, RVD congratulates Scorpio for giving him a hell of a match, and gives him the chance to shake his hand after getting his ass kicked. Scorpio extends his hand and RVD pulls his away, then Scorpio tells RVD he's more of a man that he'll ever be and that while RVD may have been the better man, he'll still shake his hand even if RVD doesn't shake his. They shake hands and Scorpio admits RVD was the better man, but it's just a set-up for Scorpio to beat him up. Sabu gets back in the ring and attacks Scorpio as well before he and Bill Alfonso get a table into the ring. Sabu and RVD get Scorpio on the table, but The Sandman returns and smacks Sabu in the back of a leg with a Singapore cane, and Scorpio fights off RVD before The Sandman sends Sabu through half of the table with a Frankensander. Scorpio thanks the ECW fans for their support, and says there's no place like ECW to kick butt in. He also says that The Sandman has been the one person to watch ihs back, and The Sandman hands him a beer. Both men enjoy a cold one before they dance in the center of the ring.
New Jack and Spike Dudley beat The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley) and the team of Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney in a chaotic three-way tag team dance that also sees some action in the crowd.
We see a video package of Justin Credible.
Jenna Jameson debuts as ECW's new reporter, and her first interview is with Justin Credible, who appears with Jason and Nicole Bass. Justin says he'd normally give Jenna Jameson the time of day, but "with Beulah McGillicutty on [his] jock, who needs [Jenna]?" Jason isn't interested in Jenna either, and Nicole Bass could care less. Jameson says she was only going to interview Just Credible because she was asked to, but then declares she'll interview who she wants to interview. Enter "The Innovator of Violence" Tommy Dreamer, who immediately makes out with her before she can even say anything, before getting in the ring and wrestling Justin Credible.
"The Innovator of Violence" Tommy Dreamer beats Justin Credible. During the match, Beulah McGillicutty shows up, winks at Justin Credible and punches him in the crotch. Jason goes after her, but Beulah ducks and kicks him in the crotch. Nicole Bass then gets in the ring and gets Beulah in a bear hug, then Mikey Whipwreck shows up and takes her down before Justin Credible breaks a crutch over Mikey's injured knee. This allows Dreamer the time to hit Justin Credible with the Dreamer DDT to get the win.
We see a video package of the events leading to the match between Tazz and Bam Bam Bigelow.
ECW returns to pay-per-view on May 3rd with Wrestlepalooza!
Bam Bam Bigelow beats Taz to become the ECW World Television Champion after Bigelow, who is tapping from the Tazmission but cannot be seen tapping out, drops Taz back first into the corner of the ring, crashing through the ring and leaving a big hole in it. When Taz comes out, he makes the pinfall to get the win. Francine, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas and "No Gimmicks Needed" Chris Candido celebrate with Bigelow in the ring. Paul E. Dangerously asks Joey Styles to buy him some time by showing the Dueling Canes Match between Sabu and The Sandman. After some arguing between Paul E. and Styles, Styles relents and shows the footage of the Dueling Canes Match from earlier tonight.
In footage from earlier tonight, Sabu beats The Sandman in a Dueling Canes match. The match starts with Rob Van Damn coming out dressed as Sabu, but this isn't known until the real Sabu shows up. Near the end, The Sandman sends Sabu into a table on the entrance ramp, and this knocks out referee John "Pee Wee" Moore. Rob Van Dam, still dressed up like Sabu, helps out Sabu again before referee Jon Jones referees the rest of the match. The match ends after Sabu and RVD simultaneously leg drop The Sandman through a table.
Joey Styles expresses his frustration with Paul Heyman for showing the match between Sabu and The Sandman, and tells Paul E. Dangerously that he can field the phone calls and deal with the censors from this time around, because he is not doing it. He regrets that the match between Al Snow and Kronus, but the main event will still go on.
Before the next match, "No Gimmicks Needed" Chris Candido wants to konw who Lance Storm's mystery is, as only three people have ever beaten him up: his grandfather, Bam Bam Bigelow and his wife. He tells Lance to bring his partner, as "The Franchise" Shane Douglas will take him out regardless of who it is. Lance Storm shows up, and Chris Candido's fiancee Sunny shows up with him, revealing that she is the mystery partner. It proves to be a set-up, however, as Sunny takes a metal plate and whacks Storm with it. Chris Candido demands a real mystery partner, and Lance Storm tells him he's going to give him Head. Al Snow shows up with Head, revealing himself to be Storm's mystery partner.
Al Snow and Lance Storm beat "No Gimmicks Needed" Chris Candido and "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, then everyone tosses their mannequin heads into the ring and Al Snow celebrates in the crowd.
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