November to Remember (1994) was the second November to Remember professional wrestling live event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) that took place on November 5, 1994, in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Nine professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. The event featured two main event matches. In the first main event, Shane Douglas defended the ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Ron Simmons. The second main event was a singles match, in which Chris Benoit took on Sabu. During the match, Sabu suffered a spinal cord injury, which resulted in the match ending in a no contest. Benoit was then challenged by 2 Cold Scorpio to an impromptu match, which ended in a double count-out.
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.
Chris Benoit versus Sabu was included on the 2004 WWE DVD release Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story.
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 the NWA World Title Tournament, Shane Douglas disgraced National Wrestling Alliance by throwing down the NWA World Heavyweight Championship after winning it in a tournament and then Tod Gordon announced that ECW was withdrawing from the NWA and renaming to "Extreme Championship Wrestling" and recognized Douglas as the ECW World Heavyweight Champion. On October 15, Ron Simmons attacked Douglas after Douglas had retained the title against The Tazmaniac, with the help of Mr. Hughes. On the October 25 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Douglas would defend the title against Simmons at November to Remember.
At NWA World Title Tournament, Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck defeated The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship. On the September 20 episode of Hardcore TV, Public Enemy attacked Jack and Whipwreck during a tag team match, which resulted in a brawl between the two teams. On the October 11 episode of Hardcore TV, Whipwreck received a title shot against Jason for the World Television Championship, during which Public Enemy interfered and helped Jason in retaining the title against Whipwreck and continued to attack him after the match until Jack made the save. The following week, on Hardcore TV, it was announced that Jack and Whipwreck would defend the World Tag Team Championship against Public Enemy in a Brawl Game match at November to Remember.
Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman had been feuding with each other since the July 19 episode of Hardcore TV, when Dreamer tried to stop Sandman from caning Mikey Whipwreck and Tommy Cairo and then Dreamer kissed Woman after avoiding her caning attempt and then Sandman lashed him with the cane fifty-seven times, which would weaken Dreamer enough to fail in his World Heavyweight Championship title shot against Shane Douglas. At Hardcore Heaven, Sandman defeated Dreamer in a Singapore Cane match. The two met in another Singapore Cane rematch on the August 30 Hardcore TV, where Sandman emerged victorious once again, thanks to interference by Woman and the match stipulated that the loser would be hit with the cane ten times and Dreamer agreed to receive the punishment. On the October 4 Hardcore TV, Dreamer defeated Sandman in an "I Quit" match, during which Sandman was apparently blinded after a cigarette was lit in his eyes. Dreamer expressed remorse for his actions, while Tommy Cairo appreciated Dreamer's actions and proclaimed that Sandman deserved to suffer the same fate due to Sandman having beaten Cairo in a Dueling Canes match at Heat Wave. On the October 18 episode of Hardcore TV, Sandman announced that he would retire in the near future due to the injury and give a retirement speech at November to Remember. On the October 25 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Dreamer would face Cairo in a match at November to Remember. Later that night, Cairo was disqualified against Mikey Whipwreck for hitting him with a Singapore cane until Dreamer made the rescue.