November to Remember (1995)

November to Remember (1995) was the third November to Remember professional wrestling event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The event took place on November 18, 1995 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. The event marked the return of Sabu to ECW after a stint in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the ECW debut of The Blue Meanie.

Nine professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. The main event was a tag team match, in which Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer took on Raven and Cactus Jack. Featured matches on the undercard were Mikey Whipwreck versus Steve Austin for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, The Sandman and 2 Cold Scorpio versus The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) for the ECW World Television Championship and the ECW World Tag Team Championship and Rey Misterio Jr. versus Psicosis in a Mexican death match.

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.

Tommy Dreamer had been involved in a feud with Raven since the summer of 1995. At Wrestlepalooza, Dreamer Cactus Jack and The Pitbulls (Pitbull #1 and Pitbull #2) took on Raven, Stevie Richards, Big Dick Dudley and Dudley Dudley in an eight-man tag team match, during which Jack turned on Dreamer by hitting him with a DDT and allowed Raven to pin him. Jack switched his allegiance to Raven and joined Raven's Nest, thus joining him in his feud with Dreamer. Jack renounced the hardcore wrestling style of ECW and criticized the fans and Dreamer for enjoying it. At Gangstas Paradise, Dreamer interfered in Raven and Richards' title defense of the World Tag Team Championship against Pitbulls in a two out of three falls match and took the injured Pitbull #2's place to pin Raven. However, Bill Alfonso overturned the decision and tried to award the win to Raven and Richards but ECW commissioner Tod Gordon came and restarted the match. Pitbulls went on to win the World Tag Team Championship. On the October 10 episode of Hardcore TV, Dreamer attempted to make the save for El Puerto Riqueño, who was being attacked by Raven and Jack after Jack had beaten Riqueño in a match. However, Dreamer was double teamed and Jack drove him through a table with a diving elbow drop with barbed wire around his elbow. On the November 14 episode of Hardcore TV, Dreamer and Jack had a match against each other, in which Raven interfered and both men attacked Dreamer until Terry Funk made the save for Dreamer, leading to a match between the two teams at November to Remember.

On the August 22 episode of Hardcore TV, Mikey Whipwreck defeated the World Heavyweight Champion The Sandman in a non-title Singapore Cane match. At Gangstas Paradise, Whipwreck and The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) defeated 2 Cold Scorpio, New Jack and The Sandman in a Gangstas Paradise Cage match when Whipwreck pinned Sandman again. On the September 26 episode of Hardcore TV, former World Championship Wrestling talent Steve Austin made his ECW debut and set his sights on the World Heavyweight Championship, thus inserting himself into Whipwreck and Sandman's feud over the title. On the October 17 episode of Hardcore TV, Raven and Stevie Richards regained the World Tag Team Championship from The Pitbulls. The following week, on Hardcore TV, Public Enemy defeated Raven and Richards and The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa Saed) in a three-way dance to win the title. On the October 31 episode of Hardcore TV, Whipwreck defeated Sandman in a ladder match to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Scorpio defeated Rocco Rock in a singles match to retain the World Television Championship while also winning the World Tag Team Championship. He chose Sandman as his tag team partner. Later that night, it was announced that Scorpio and Sandman would defend both titles against Public Enemy at November to Remember and the winner of the fall would earn a title shot against Whipwreck later at the event.

Rey Misterio, Jr. and Psicosis made their ECW debut in a match against each other at Gangstas Paradise, which Misterio won. On the October 17 episode of Hardcore TV, Psicosis defeated Misterio in a two out of three falls match. On the November 14 episode of Hardcore TV, Konnan and Misterio defeated Psicosis and La Parka by count-out in a tag team match. This would lead to a Mexican Death match between Misterio and Psicosis at November to Remember.

The opening match of the event pitted The Broad Street Bully against Don E. Allen, with Buh Buh Ray Dudley as the special guest ring announcer for the match. After Dudley repeatedly stuttered while giving the introduction, he became frustrated and attacked both men, powerbombing Allen and then Bully before pinning Bully. After the match, Paul Heyman came to the ring and the lights of the arena went off and as the lights came back, Sabu was present in the ring, thus making his return to ECW.

The match was followed by Konnan taking on Jason. The injured Taz came to the ring as the special guest referee. Jason insulted Taz, so he attacked him and Konnan nailed a Splash Mountain to Jason for the win with Taz making a fast pinfall count.