Cold Scorpio and Dean Malenko defeated Eddie Guerrero and Taz in a tag team match. The two teams faced in a rematch on the July 25 episode of Hardcore TV, which Guerrero and Taz won. However, Taz broke his neck in the process and was put out of action. On the August 1 episode of Hardcore TV, The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) made their ECW debut alongside Taz and it was announced that Taz and Steiner Brothers would compete against Scorpio, Malenko and Chris Benoit in a six-man tag team match at Wrestlepalooza. Event The opening bout was a singles match between Hack Meyers and J.T. Smith. During the match, Smith attempted to perform a suicide dive out of the ring onto Meyers on the arena floor below, only for his knee pads to catch on the ring ropes, causing him to botch the move and fall head-first to the ground, drawing chants of "you fucked up" from the characteristically unsympathetic ECW audience. Smith suffered a concussion, with a large swelling on his head. Smith went on to defeat Meyers by pinfall following interference by Val Puccio. The second bout was a singles match between Val Puccio and Tony Stetson. Puccio won by disqualification after Hack Meyers interfered in the match. The third bout saw Raven's Nest (Raven, Stevie Richards, Dudley Dudley, and Big Dick Dudley (substituting for Snot Dudley, who was injured) face Tommy Dreamer, The Pitbulls, and Cactus Jack (substituting for Luna Vachon, who had been unable to travel to the event) in an eight-man tag team match. At the beginning of the match, Raven gave a promo in which he professed to understand Cactus Jack's "pain". Towards the end of the match, Dreamer seemed to be on the brink of defeating Raven for the first time after giving him a piledriver onto a steel chair, only for Cactus Jack to turn on Dreamer by giving him a double arm DDT, and pulling Raven on top of him for a pinfall victory. The fourth bout was a six-man tag team match pitting 2 Cold Scorpio and Dean Malenko, and Cactus Jack (substituting for Chris Benoit, who had left ECW due to visa issues) against The Steiner Brothers and Eddie Guerrero (substituting for Taz, who was injured). After a back-and-forth match, Guerrero attempted to perform a brainbuster on Malenko but Malenko countered with a roll-up, pinning