Date January 5, 1996 Venue ECW Arena | Attendance 1,150 | |
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Promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US House Party (1996) Big Apple Blizzard Blast | ||
In professional wrestling, House Party was a supercard held by the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States-based professional wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling annually in January in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. The name of the event was a reference to the tag team The Public Enemy, who departed ECW after wrestling in the main event of the inaugural event.
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1996
House Party (1996) was a supercard that took place on January 5, 1996 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. The announcer for the event was Joey Styles. Several matches from the event aired on the January 23, 1996 episode of ECW Hardcore TV.
House Party (1996) featured the final appearance of tag team The Public Enemy, who had signed contracts with World Championship Wrestling, until their return in January 1999, as well as the final appearance of Tony Stetson. The event also saw the debut of future ECW mainstay Rob Van Dam, along with the surprise return of Shane Douglas from the World Wrestling Federation.
The event saw a key development in the feud between Raven and Tommy Dreamer, which had begun upon Raven's debut in ECW one year prior. During the event, Raven's girlfriend and valet, Beulah McGillicutty, unexpectedly announced that she was pregnant, and that the father of the baby was not Raven, but his arch-rival, Dreamer. After Raven began throttling her, Dreamer stormed to the ring and decisively beat down Raven and his henchmen, Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie, before embracing McGillicutty. McGillicutty subsequently joined forces with Dreamer, managing him until her retirement from professional wrestling in 1998. The storyline of McGillicutty's pregnancy was resolved in April 1996 at Hostile City Showdown, when it was revealed that she had been lying.
1997
House Party (1997) was a supercard that took place on January 11, 1997 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. The announcer for the event was Joey Styles.
1998
House Party (1998) was a supercard that took place on January 10, 1998 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. The announcer for the event was Joey Styles.
The main event of House Party (1998), a Stairway to Hell match between Sabu and The Sandman, gained a degree of notoriety after Sabu sustained a broken jaw upon executing a plancha and inadvertently striking the guard rail with his chin. Sabu continue to wrestle for several minutes, at one point wrapping his heavily bleeding jaw in duct tape.
1999
House Party (1999) was a supercard that took place on January 16, 1999 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. The announcer for the event was Joey Styles.
House Party (1999) saw the return of tag team The Public Enemy to ECW after a three year absence, brawling with The Dudley Boyz.