Today in ECW History - July 9th

 Today in ECW History - July 9th, 1999

Expo Sports Center in Cocoa Beach, Florida:

• Super Leather def. Rhino
• Super Crazy def. Little Guido
• Danny Doring and Roadkill fought Chris Chetti and Nova to a no contest
• Jerry Lynn def. Lance Storm
• Jazz def. Jason Knight
• Sabu def. Justin Credible
• ECW World Television Championship: Rob Van Dam (c) def. Vito LoGrasso to retain the title
• ECW World Heavyweight Championship: Taz (c) def. Yoshihiro Tajiri to retain the title

Wrestler birthday(s): Damien 666 turns 62 years old today. Damien only had 4 matches in ECW during 1996, wrestling Chris Jericho, Raven (unsuccessfully competing for Raven's ECW World Heavyweight Championship), Sabu and El Puerto Ricano during April-May '96. Following his short ECW stint, he would move on to WCW, competing as one of the many various Mexican luchadores brought in to help fill in the newly created cruiserweight division. He was part of the 60-man World War 3 battle royale in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Later, he would become a member of Eddie Guerrero's LWO (Latino World Order) stable. Following his time in WCW, he would compete for ECW rip-off promotion Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW), as a member of the Mexico's Most Wanted group. He would have stints in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), CMLL and AAA. Also, former ECW World Tag Team Champion Tom Brandi (aka Johnny Gunn and Salvatore Sincere) turns 59 years old today. Brandi had 4 matches for ECW in 1993 and a final match for the promotion in 1995. During 1993, as Johnny Gunn, Brandi held the ECW Tag Titles with Tommy Dreamer, defeating Johnny Hotbody and Tony Stetson in a record 9 seconds. Less than a month later the two would drop the belts to The Tazmaniac (later known as Taz) and Kevin Sullivan. He would later move on to work in the WWF as one of many "jobber with gimmicks" that competed in the promotion. His last televised match was loosing to Jeff Jarrett on March 17th, 1998 on an episode of WWF RAW is WAR. Following his time in the WWF, he moved on to the independent circuit where he competed as "The Patriot" (not to be confused with the original Patriot Del Wilkes).