Heat Wave (1998)

[5] On the May 13 episode of Hardcore TV, Dudley Boyz threatened to give violence to Sandman and Dreamer.

[13] At Hostile City Showdown, The Triple Threat (Shane Douglas, Chris Candido and Lance Storm) competed against Bam Bam Bigelow and Taz in a handicap match, which ended in a no contest when Bigelow turned on Taz while Candido turned on his World Tag Team Championship partner Storm and then Douglas reformed Triple Threat with Bigelow and Candido.

[13] Chris Candido's betrayal of Lance Storm at Hostile City Showdown evolved into a rivalry between the two partners.

[19] At Living Dangerously, Storm and his chosen partner Al Snow defeated Candido and Shane Douglas in a tag team match.

[15] Despite the ongoing feud with each other, Candido and Storm remained World Tag Team Champions but were at odds with each other.

On the July 1 episode of Hardcore TV, Candido and Storm lost the World Tag Team Championship to Rob Van Dam and Sabu.

[12] The following week on Hardcore TV, there were signs of dissension between the two when Storm blamed Candido for the title loss while confronting Taz during a promo.

[15] He then made his full-time debut for ECW on the July 1 episode of Hardcore TV by defeating Balls Mahoney.

[12] The following week, on Hardcore TV, Mike Awesome returned to ECW, having wrestled last for the company in a losing effort against Louie Spicolli at Crossing the Line Again in 1997.

[21] At It Ain't Seinfeld, Jerry Lynn defeated Justin Credible in a match to begin a feud between the two.

[22] The feud continued as Lynn defeated Credible in an "I Quit" match on the June 17 episode of Hardcore TV.

[10] On the July 15 episode of Hardcore TV, Credible and Jason defeated Lynn and Pablo Marquez in an elimination tag team match.

[20] The feud led to a match between the two at Heat Wave, with their final encounter taking place on the July 29 Hardcore TV, where Lynn and Masato Tanaka defeated Credible and Mike Awesome.

[21] Before the event aired live on pay-per-view, The Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks (Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten) defeated The F.B.I.

Candido sported a headgear to cover his surgically repaired ear and Storm removed it in the earlier portion of the match.

Sytch interfered by crutching Storm into the ropes, allowing Candido to execute a Blonde Bombshell for the victory.

Tanaka delivered a Roaring Elbow to Awesome and followed with a tornado DDT onto two steel chairs to win the match.

Sabu applied a Boston crab on Shinzaki and RVD delivered a diving leg drop to get a near-fall.

RVD and Sabu set the challengers on the table and delivered diving leg drops to both men to retain the titles.

They began brawling in the aisle where Bigelow attempted a T-Bone suplex into the crowd but Taz countered that into a tornado DDT.

Kevin Pantoja of 411Mania rated a score of 8 to the event and called it "the best ECW Pay-Per-View of all time", with "Despite the fact that the last two matches are the worst, they're both entertaining and fun brawls.

"[2] David of Wrestling Recaps wrote "This show is called ECW’s best more often than any other pay-per-view or pre-PPV-era supercard, but I disagree.

Lance Storm continued his rivalry with Chris Candido at Heat Wave as the two squared off in a rematch on the August 12 episode of Hardcore TV, where Storm defeated Candido after fooling him to believe that Tammy Lynn Sytch was bound under a WWF contract and could not be allowed to be at ECW.

[27] At UltraClash, Candido and Sytch defeated Storm and Bytch in a tag team match to end the feud.

[28] The Triple Threat moved on to a feud with Rob Van Dam and Sabu after the event as Taz defended his unrecognized FTW Heavyweight Championship against Sabu and Bam Bam Bigelow in a triple threat match on the August 12 episode of Hardcore TV with Taz retaining the title due to the match ending in a thirty-minute time limit draw.