Despite J.T. Smith interfering multiple times on Guido's behalf, Rotten won the match by pinfall following an inverted powerbomb. The sixth bout was a tag team match pitting the Bruise Brothers against 2 Cold Scorpio and the Sandman. Scorpio and the Sandman won the bout by pinfall after delivering a moonsault press to one of the Bruise Brothers. The seventh bout was a singles match between Brian Lee and Tommy Dreamer. The match ended when the Bruise Brothers interfered in the match, placing a cinderblock on Dreamer's groin which Lee then hit with a chair, enabling him to pin Dreamer. The eighth bout was a singles match between Rob Van Dam and Sabu. Sabu won the bout by pinfall after giving Van Dam a chair shot followed by a triple jump moonsault. After the match, Sabu offered a handshake to Van Dam, only for Van Dam to refuse to shake his hand and walked away. Raven defended the ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Shane Douglas in the main event. Before the match, Douglas revealed to Tommy Dreamer that his girlfriend, Beulah McGillicutty, was not pregnant as she had claimed and was in fact cheating with him. After Dreamer demanded to know who Beulah was cheating on him with, Douglas' valet, Kimona Wanalaya, revealed it was her and then kissed Beulah. Dreamer then declared, "I'll take 'em both, I'm hardcore!" and kissed both Beulah and Kimona. Near the end of the match, Douglas applied a figure four leglock on Raven until Stevie Richards distracted the referee, allowing Bruise Brothers to attack Douglas and Raven hit Douglas with a loaded boot to retain the title. After the match, Douglas cut a promo on his obsession about the World Heavyweight Championship, leading to 2 Cold Scorpio coming out and objecting to Douglas' obsession about the World Heavyweight Championship but ignoring the ECW World Television Championship and then as Scorpio was leaving, Douglas turned into a villain by attacked Scorpio and nailed a belly-to-belly suplex and a piledriver to Scorpio on the title belt and Sandman tried to make the rescue but Douglas delivered him a second belly-to-belly suplex. Reception Hostile City Showdown received mixed reviews from the critics. Shinobi of Wrestling Recaps rated it 8 out of 10, considering it " a really cool ECW show", adding that the show had "historical moments with RVD & Sabu’s first match", the controversial lesbian angle