the title. At Hardcore Heaven, Pitbull #2 lost the title to Chris Jericho. On the June 25 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Jericho would defend the title against former champions 2 Cold Scorpio, Shane Douglas and Pitbull #2 in a four-way dance at Heat Wave. On the July 9 episode of Hardcore TV, Lance Wright announced during the Hype Central segment that Tarzan Goto would make his ECW debut at Heat Wave and Sabu would also wrestle at the event. At Fight the Power, Samoan Gangstas Party (L.A. Smooth and Sammy the Silk) debuted in ECW during The Eliminators' (Kronus and Saturn) World Tag Team Championship title defense against The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa) by attacking Gangstas and costing them the title shot. Gangstas received a last chance at the titles against Eliminators at Hardcore Heaven, where Samoan Gangsta Party attacked them before the match even started. The Bruise Brothers then substituted for Gangstas and competed against Eliminators in the title match which ended in a no contest after Gangstas came back and attacked both teams. Later at the event, Gangstas attacked Samoan Gangsta Party during their match against Axl Rotten and Hack Meyers followed by Eliminators and Bruise Brothers coming out as well and all four teams began brawling with each other. On the July 9 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Gangstas would face Samoan Gangsta Party in a match at Heat Wave. Event Preliminary matches The opening match was a tag team match in which The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa Saed) took on Samoan Gangstas Party (L.A. Smooth and Sammy the Silk). A brawl broke out between the two teams, resulting in the match ending in a no contest. After the match, Gangstas challenged Eliminators to a match for the titles with The Bruise Brothers and Samoan Gangsta Party in the match as well. This was followed by Damien Kane, who brought out Paul Lauria to compete against Mikey Whipwreck. Whipwreck executed a Franken-Mikey to win the match. After the match, The Eliminators (John Kronus and Perry Saturn) attacked Whipwreck and Lauria and nailed a Total Elimination to Lauria and then challenged Whipwreck to bring out Sabu, who showed up and the two challenged Eliminators for the World Tag Team Championship. After knocking out Sabu through a table, Eliminators executed a Total Elimination on Whipwreck to retain the titles. Next,