November to Remember

November to Remember (normally abbreviated to N2R) was an annual Eastern Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling professional wrestling show held during the month of November between 1993 and 2000. Starting with 1997 edition the event was broadcast on pay-per-view. The event was considered to be ECW's flagship supercard. The rights to the event now belong to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

November to Remember dates and main events

Results

1993

November to Remember 1993 was a live event that took place on November 13, 1993 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. The commentators for the event were Joey Styles and Tony Rumble. Two matches from the event aired on the November 16, 1993 episode of ECW Hardcore TV.

1994

November to Remember 1994 was a live event that took place on November 5, 1994 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.

The event featured a retirement ceremony for The Sandman, who had seemingly been blinded in an "I Quit" match with Tommy Dreamer on October 1, 1994. During the ceremony, The Sandman's ex-wife, Peaches, attempted to reconcile with him, only to be interrupted by Woman, The Sandman's former manager, who had labelled him "useless" and abandoned him upon his blinding. Woman interrupted the reconciliation, caning Peaches and threatening The Sandman. After Dreamer came to the ring to protect The Sandman, The Sandman revealed that he was not in fact blinded and attacked Dreamer, with his estrangement from Woman revealed as a ruse to ensnare Dreamer.^[1]

During the bout between Chris Benoit and Sabu, Sabu legitimately suffered a spinal cord injury resulting in nerve damage after receiving a botched back body drop from Benoit. Benoit subsequently adopted the nickname "The Crippler".^[2]

1995

November to Remember 1995 was a live event that took place on November 18, 1995 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. The commentator for the event was Joey Styles.

1996

November to Remember 1996
The ECW Arena.
Information
Promotion	Extreme Championship Wrestling
Date	November 16, 1996
Attendance	1,500 (sellout)
Venue	ECW Arena
City	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Event chronology
High Incident November to Remember 1996 Holiday Hell 1996

November to Remember 1996 took place on November 16, 1996 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. At the time, this was the biggest ECW show in history and sold out 4 hours in advance, with a legitimate 1,500 fans attending, the largest turnout in company history. The announcer for the event was Joey Styles.

The feud The Sandman and Raven continued at November to Remember 1996, with Raven bringing The Sandman's ex-wife, Lori, and son, Tyler, to ringside for his ECW World Heavyweight Championship title shot. The infighting between The Dudley Brothers saw Buh Buh Ray Dudley defeat his half-brother, D-Von Dudley.

November to Remember 1996 saw the debut of The Blue World Order, a parody of the World Championship Wrestling stable The New World Order. The event also featured the final appearance of 2 Cold Scorpio before he joined the World Wrestling Federation, with Scorpio defeating a series of jobbers in "loser leaves town" matches before being pinned by Louie Spicolli.

At the outset of the event, Taz delivered a promo in which he stated that ECW would hold its first pay-per-view in the first quarter of 1997 and challenged Sabu to face him at the event. ECW's first pay-per-view, Barely Legal took place on April 13, 1997.

1997

November to Remember 1997 took place on November 30, 1997 from the Golden Dome in Monaca, Pennsylvania. This was the first edition of November to Remember to be broadcast on pay-per-view.

1998

November to Remember 1998
Information
Promotion	Extreme Championship Wrestling
Date	November 1, 1998
Attendance	5,800
Venue	Lakefront Arena
City	New Orleans, Louisiana
Pay-per-view chronology
Heat Wave 1998 November to Remember 1998 ECW/FMW Supershow I

November to Remember 1998 took place on November 1, 1998 from the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1999

November to Remember 1999 took place on November 7, 1999 from the Burt Flickinger Center in Buffalo, New York.

On the October 16, 1999 edition of ECW Hardcore TV, the Impact Players (Justin Credible & Lance Storm) bragged about ridding the company of Shane Douglas, Sid, and the Sandman, before claiming their last remaining challenge was to defeat dysfunctional ECW Tag Team Champions Tommy Dreamer & Raven. Raven cost Dreamer numerous singles matches, including a bout against Storm on the October 29th edition of ECW Wrestling on TNN. The Impact Players would double-team both champions after they fought among themselves. Storm's valet Dawn Marie also targeted Dreamer's valet Francine, attempting to unseat the "Queen of Extreme" as ECW's top female. On the October 30, 1999 edition of Hardcore TV, it was revealed the Impact Players and a mystery partner would face Dreamer, Raven, and a mystery partner at November to Remember.

On the October 9, 1999 edition of ECW Hardcore TV, Joey Styles announced that new ECW World Champion Mike Awesome would defend against Masato Tanaka at November to Remember '99. Awesome had defeated Tanaka to capture the World Title in a triple threat match at Anarchy Rulz in September. Awesome made numerous title defenses on television leading up to the pay-per-view, while Tanaka was never featured.

On the October 16, 1999 edition of ECW Hardcore TV, Joey Styles revealed that ECW TV Champion Rob Van Dam would defend against Taz at November to Remember in a match the fans demanded. Following a loss to Sabu on the October 29th edition of ECW Wrestling on TNN, Taz attacked Van Dam from behind with the Tazmission.

On the October 15, 1999 edition of ECW Wrestling on TNN, Steve Corino interrupted Jerry Lynn's backstage promo and then lured him into a locker room attack by Yoshihiro Tajiri, with Tajiri targeting Lynn's broken ribs. Tajiri pinned Lynn on the October 30th edition of Hardcore TV after spraying red mist into Lynn's face.

On the October 29, 1999 edition of ECW Wrestling on TNN, Balls Mahoney & Axl Rotten saved Nova from an attack by Da Baldies faction of Angel, DeVito, and Vito "The Skull" LoGrasso. On the November 5th edition of Hardcore TV, Da Baldies vs Balls, Axl, & New Jack was officially announced for the pay-per-view, with footage shown of News joining Da Baldies in beating down Balls & Axl at the ECW Arena. New Jack attempted to make the save, only for Angel to staple him in the eye.

2000

November to Remember 2000
The Odeum Expo Center.
Information
Promotion	Extreme Championship Wrestling
Date	November 5, 2000
Attendance	4,600
Venue	Odeum Expo Center
City	Villa Park, Illinois, US
Pay-per-view chronology
Anarchy Rulz 2000 November to Remember 2000 Massacre on 34th Street

November to Remember 2000 was an Extreme Championship Wrestling pay-per-view that aired on November 5, 2000 from the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois, US. It was the ante-penultimate ECW pay-per-view. The commentators for the event were Joey Styles, Joel Gertner and Cyrus.

See also

• List of ECW pay-per-view events

References

External links

• November to Remember 1994 at the Internet Movie Database
• November to Remember 1995 at the Internet Movie Database
• November to Remember 1996 at the Internet Movie Database
• November to Remember 1997 at the Internet Movie Database
• November to Remember 1998 at the Internet Movie Database
• November to Remember 1999 at the Internet Movie Database
• November to Remember 2000 at the Internet Movie Database