Gordon. Alfonso stopped the match after The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) and The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa) began brawling at ringside and Alfonso went after them. Gordon let the match continue. Axl delivered a back body drop to Ian on the thumbtacks laid in the ring and hit a big splash for the victory. In the penultimate match, The Sandman defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Cactus Jack. Shane Douglas interfered in the match by nailing a Piledriver on Sandman and then nailed Cactus in the face with a Singapore cane and put Sandman on top of Cactus for the pinfall victory, resulting in Sandman retaining the title. After the match, Tod Gordon fired Douglas from ECW, who retaliated by attacking Gordon until 911 made the save and nailed a Chokeslam on Douglas. Main event matches Public Enemy and The Gangstas competed in the main event of the show. Both members of Public Enemy drove New Jack through two tables each and then Rocco Rock smashed a croquet mallet in the back of Mustafa Saed's head for the win. Reception Hardcore Heaven received negative reviews from critics. Matt Peddycord of Wrestling Recaps gave negative reviews to the event due to the absence of Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit, while noting Taz and 2 Cold Scorpio's match as the only watchable match of the event. He gave a "thumbs down" to the event. Kevin Pantoja of 411Mania rated a score of 2.5 for the event, considering it a very bad event. He stated "On the whole, the show itself isn’t very good. Only two matches are pretty good and the rest is pretty much absolute garbage. Then there’s the overly long Shane Douglas promo that kind of kills the mood. I was also disappointed at the ECW crowd, which was less excited than expected." The Wrestling Revolution staff wrote "A bad show from ECW. It was barely over two hours, but aside from Taz vs. Scorpio and Cactus vs. Sandman, it dragged along painfully. Most of the matches weren’t good, and there was some silly booking. There was some important storyline stuff, so if you want to check it out for that you can, but I still wouldn’t recommend buying this show." Aftermath On the July 4 episode of Hardcore TV, Axl Rotten was named the number one contender to Sandman's World Heavyweight Championship at