Hostile City Showdown (1994) was the first Hostile City Showdown professional wrestling event produced by Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW). It took place on June 24, 1994 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. The main event of Hostile City Showdown was a heavily promoted "dream match" between the hardcore wrestlers Cactus Jack and Sabu. Cactus Jack, an employee of World Championship Wrestling and then-WCW World Tag Team Champion, participated in the event as part of a talent exchange brokered between ECW and WCW by Todd Gordon and Kevin Sullivan. Cactus Jack suffered herniated discs during the match and subsequently developed hives over fifty percent of his body; he was briefly hospitalized. The bout appeared on the 2007 WWE DVD release Mick Foley: Greatest Hits & Misses. Although not airing on pay-per-view, in July 2019 the event was added to the WWE Network, in the ECW pay-per-view section. 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 When Worlds Collide, Sabu and Bobby Eaton defeated Terry Funk and Arn Anderson after Sabu's manager Paul E. Dangerously paid off The Public Enemy, who interfered in the match and attacked Funk and then Anderson turned on Funk. On the May 17 episode of Hardcore TV, Funk cut a promo, in which he announced that he would call out his brother Dory Funk, Jr. to gain revenge on Public Enemy. Later that night, it was announced that Public Enemy would face the Funk Brothers at Hostile City Showdown. On the May 31 episode of Hardcore TV, Paul E. Dangerously proclaimed that Sabu would face Atsushi Onita from Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in a major main event at Hostile City Showdown until someone informed Dangerously that Sabu's opponent would not be Onita. Later that night, it was revealed that Sabu would face World Championship Wrestling's Cactus Jack at the event. At When Worlds Collide, The Pitbull defeated The Tazmaniac by using a dog collar chain. On the May 17 episode of Hardcore TV, Tazmaniac cost Pitbull, the ECW Television Championship against Mikey Whipwreck. On the May 31 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Tazmaniac would face Pitbull in a dog collar match at Hostile