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Pins Funk in 8-man war game match with Douglas & Mr. Hughes & Public Enemy vs Funk & Hawk & Kevin Sullivan & Tazmaniac; defeats 2 Cold Scorpio on 94-08-27 in Philadelphia in the revived NWA World heavyweight championship tournament final, but immediately vacates it and elevates the ECW title to World title status instead; ECW immediately announces the withdrawal of NWA; renamed to Extreme Championship Wrestling in 94-09.
The Sandman [2]
1995-04-15
Philadelphia, PA
Mikey Whipwreck
1995-10-28
Philadelphia, PA
The Sandman [3]
1995-12-09
Philadelphia, PA
Wins triangle match over Whipwreck and Steve Austin.
Raven
1996-01-27
Philadelphia, PA
The Sandman [4]
1996-10-05
Philadelphia, PA
Defeats Stevie Richards in a tag match with Sandman & Tommy Dreamer vs. Richards & Brian Lee when Raven no-shows.
Defeats Justin Credible in a Double Jeopardy match, in which Lynn faces Credible while Corino wrestles The Sandman in the same ring at the same time with the two winners meet for the title.
Substitutes Chris Benoit who can not wrestle in the tournament final for personal reasons and defeats C.M. Punk; initially wrestles as Johnny Nitro and renames himself on 07-07-17.
