Hardcore Heaven (1994) was the first Hardcore Heaven event. It was promoted by Eastern Championship Wrestling on August 13, 1994 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Nine professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Terry Funk fought Cactus Jack to a no contest after The Public Enemy interfered and attacked both men. The show had a notable ending, which saw the audience throw dozens of folding chairs into the ring, burying Public Enemy. Excerpts from Hardcore Heaven aired on episode #70 and #71 of ECW Hardcore TV on August 16 and 23, 1994. In July 2019, the event was made available for streaming on the WWE Network. The bout between Cactus Jack and Terry Funk was included on the 2013 WWE DVD and Blu-ray release ECW Unreleased: Vol 2. Storylines The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television program Hardcore TV. At Heat Wave, 911 and Mr. Hughes had multiple confrontations with each other as Hughes attacked him with a steel chair during a match between The Tazmaniac and The Pitbulls (Pitbull #1 and Pitbull #2). Later that night, 911 retaliated by chokeslamming Hughes, Shane Douglas and Angel after Douglas' title defense of the ECW Heavyweight Championship against Sabu. On the July 26 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that 911 would face Hughes at Hardcore Heaven. On the July 12 episode of Hardcore TV, The Tazmaniac defeated Jimmy Snuka and Snuka was about to attack his manager Hunter Q. Robbins III after the match in anger. At Heat Wave, Tazmaniac and Sabu defeated The Pitbulls in a quick match. On the July 26 episode of Hardcore TV, Tommy Dreamer, Terry Funk and Dory Funk, Jr. defeated the team of Snuka and Pitbulls in a six-man tag team match. After the match, Robbins berated Snuka resulting in Snuka attacking Rollins and then Pitbulls attacked Snuka which led to Tazmaniac coming out to make the rescue and Snuka officially turning face. On the August 2 episode of Hardcore TV, a match was made between Pitbulls and the team of Snuka and Tazmaniac at Hardcore Heaven. At Heat Wave, The Bad Breed (Axl Rotten and Ian Rotten) defeated Hack