The Super Summer Sizzler Spectacular was a

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produced by NWA

Eastern Championship Wrestling Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and operated by its parent company HHG Corporation. The promotion was founded in 1992 by Tod Gordon as Nationa ...

(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 " supercard" and the first ECW event to be released on

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. 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,

Terry Funk Terrance Dee Funk (June 30, 1944 – August 23, 2023) was an American professional wrestler and actor. Widely considered one of the most influential and greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Funk was known for the longevity of his car ...

, Joey Styles and Tod Gordon. 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

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

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

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 i ...

faced one another in a first blood match. 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 Ch ...

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 the Sandman. 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 ECW Pennsylvania Champion

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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 " Philadelphia street fight", 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 and

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

. 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, Super Destroyer #1, and Stevie Wonderful (substituting for Super Destroyer #2) against ECW Tag Team Champions 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

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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 Tod Gordon 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Super Summer Sizzler Spectacular 1993 in sports in Pennsylvania 1993 in professional wrestling Extreme Championship Wrestling supercards and pay-per-view events June 1993 in the United States Professional wrestling shows in Philadelphia