The main event was a tag team match, in which Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer defeated Shane Douglas and Brian Lee.

On the January 30 episode of Hardcore TV, Raven defeated The Sandman to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.

[2] Raven retained the title against Sandman in several rematches at CyberSlam,[3] Big Ass Extreme Bash[4] and A Matter of Respect,[5] before Sandman ultimately regained the title at Ultimate Jeopardy, where he and Tommy Dreamer defeated Raven's Nest's members Stevie Richards and Brian Lee in an Ultimate Jeopardy match, which stipulated that Sandman would be caned with a Singapore cane if he lost, Lee would be shaved bald if he got pinned and Raven would lose the World Heavyweight Championship if Richards got pinned.

[10] At Fight the Power, Pitbull #2 defeated Shane Douglas to win the ECW World Television Championship, which began a feud between the two over the title.

[10] At The Doctor Is In, The Gangstas (Mustafa Saed and New Jack) defeated The Eliminators (Saturn and Kronus), The Samoan Gangsta Party (Mack Daddy Kane and Sammy the Silk) and The Bruise Brothers (Don and Ron) in a four-way dance to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship.

After back and forth action, Rotten executed a double underhook DDT to Meyers on a steel chair for the win.

[18][19] Later, Rob Van Dam and Sabu took on The Eliminators (Perry Saturn and John Kronus) to determine the #1 contenders for the World Tag Team Championship later in the show.

Near the end of the match, Saturn hit a Moonsault on RVD from the second rope to gain a near-fall and then the twenty-minute time limit expired.

Smith hit a series of elbow smashes until Scorpio knocked him out with a side slam and a Moonsault.

[18][19] The Sandman defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Raven in the first main event match of November to Remember.

Despite interference by Blue World Order, Sandman managed to win the match by hitting a DDT on Raven to retain the title.

[18][19] Next was the main event match in which Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer took on Shane Douglas and Brian Lee.

Beulah McGillicutty showed up at ringside to counter Francine's interference but Douglas took her out with a belly-to-belly suplex.

[18][19] November to Remember 1996 received a huge positive response from the audiences as it had been the most successful event for ECW at that time in terms of revenue and crowd.

Crowd loves the whole thing but I was bored senseless by the repeated garbage spots and lack of variety.

This is one of these shows that highlight the kind of constant screw up’s that Sabu would do when he wasn’t feeling terribly motivated.

"[18] Wrestling 20 Years Ago staff gave the event a score rating of 6.5 out of 10 and stated "The BWO debut was fun, and this show is often solid, but there’s nothing in here that was massively memorable or brilliantly done.

"[19] 2 Cold Scorpio legitimately left ECW after losing the loser leaves town match at November to Remember as he had signed a contract with World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he debuted the following night at Survivor Series as "Flash Funk".

On the November 26 episode of Hardcore TV, several matches were announced for Holiday Hell including The Sandman defending the title against Raven in a barbed wire match, Shane Douglas and Francine taking on Tommy Dreamer and Beulah McGillicutty and Rob Van Dam facing Taz at the event.