House of Hardcore
Acronym | HOH |
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Founded | October 6, 2012 |
Defunct | April 11, 2020 |
Style | Professional wrestling Hardcore wrestling |
Founder(s) | Tommy Dreamer |
Owner(s) | Extreme Original Productions, Inc. |
Predecessor | Extreme Championship Wrestling |
Website | houseofhardcore.net |
House of Hardcore (HOH) is an American wrestling promotion founded by professional wrestler Tommy Dreamer. Its slogan is "No Politics, No BS, Just Wrestling." In its history, HOH has run events in twelve states and three countries. As of April 2024[update], the promotion has remained inactive since December 2019.
History
On June 21, 2012,
In its history, HOH has worked with
Following the events of
On August 7, 2014, the promotion appeared on the
On April 13, 2015, HOH announced it would run its first international show to be held in
The November 30, 2015 episode of
June 2016 would feature Dreamer partnering with Outback Championship Wrestling to bring HOH to Australia.[10] With the success of that event, HOH would return to Australia for multiple events in June 2017 and July 2018 with Aussie All Pro.[11][12]
On November 20, 2016, HOH announced a deal with FloSlam for live streaming of events (starting in December 2016) and On Demand access to some archived events.[13] In March 2017, HOH and FloSlam extended their deal to cover events to May 2017.[14]
On June 5, 2017, House of Hardcore and ProWrestlingTees.com announced that they were teaming up for a promotion called "Summer of Hardcore". With this promotion fans would be able to purchase from 12 former HOH T-shirt designs. The "Summer of Hardcore" runs until September 1.[15] In response to Hurricane Harvey, HOH announced a Labor Day promotion where they would match every order on ProWrestlingTees.com and send shirts to storm victims.[16] The HOH store continues to be open.
On October 8, 2017, Dreamer announced at
The first episode of House of Hardcore TV aired on Twitch November 8, 2017. The show, which had no set length, aired on Wednesdays at 9 PM EST. Episodes typically featured hype for future events, recaps of past events and a showcased match from the HOH archive. One of the goals of the show was "telling wrestler's real stories" in part by having them create their own promo segments. [19] Starting with the July 18th 2018 episode, the HOH TV show format would change to Dreamer hosting a live Q&A with some guests and discussing HOH and other topics. In addition, instead of airing live events, starting in May 2018 HOH shows would be shown monthly after having some time for post-production. House of Hardcore 43 would be the last current event shown on Twitch, instead events from the beginning of HOH would be aired featuring Dreamer, Monique Dupree and sometimes other wrestlers chatting along with viewers in Twitch chat. HOH would cease airing events on Twitch in March 2019 and cease the Q&A's in October 2020.
Beginning in January 2018, Dreamer in addition to operating HOH began to work backstage for
After holding tournament matches at House of Hardcore 37 and House of Hardcore 39, HOH would crown its first champion at House of Hardcore 40 when
On August 6, 2018, HOH would announce that it would be at the Keystone Comic Con in Philadelphia which would take place September 14-16, 2018. Throughout the weekend, matches would take place featuring Dreamer,
On January 1, 2019, Dreamer partnered with GaS Digital Network to produce the House of Hardcore Podcast. The podcast featured Dreamer interviewing wrestling personalities, telling stories from his career and talking about House of Hardcore and recent events. It also included segments where Dreamer answered listener questions and taste tests different coffees and Oreos.[30] The podcast ran until July 3, 2023 and had 143 episodes.
On March 25, 2019, RetroSoft Studios announced that House of Hardcore, Tommy Dreamer and the
On May 8, 2019, HOH announced that it was partnering with
The April 11, 2020 HOH 58 event at the
List of events and results
House of Hardcore has produced 57 chronological events in additional to 2 charity events. The first event took place on October 6, 2012 in
Championships
Championship | Champion | Previous | Date won | Days | Location | Defenses |
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HOH Twitch Television Championship | Willie Mack | April 7, 2018 | New Orleans, Louisiana | 15 |
Title history
HOH Twitch Television Championship
As of April 18, 2024.
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
1 | Willie Mack | April 7, 2018 | HOH 40 | New Orleans, Louisiana
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1 | 609 | 15 | This was a triple threat match also involving Alex Reynolds .
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