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Barely Legal was the first professional wrestling pay-per-view event
held by Extreme Championship
Wrestling. It took place on April 13, 1997 from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Production
Terry Funk captured the ECW world title at the age of 52.
Getting the pay-per-view on in the first place was a struggle.
Viewer's Choice (now named In Demand) was very hesitant at putting ECW
on pay-per-view because they felt that ECW was too vulgar and
brutal, and refused to air the show without restrictions on the
content. Paul Heyman claimed that this was a double standard
because Ultimate Fighting
Championship (UFC) was being criticized for its violent content
at the time, but it was still getting pay-per-view time. Request TV agreed to give
ECW a pay-per-view under the condition that it aired at 9:00 p.m.
rather than the 7:00 p.m. time slot that pay-per-views usually held
during that time frame.
An electric power transformer blew out moments after the show
went off the air due to all the power being used by the building.
It is said that had the show gone on even 10 seconds longer, they
would have lost the feed.
The event was put in jeopardy when Viewer's Choice cancelled the show in
response to the "Mass
Transit" incident. However, Viewer's Choice eventually changed
their minds after much pleading from ECW promoter Paul Heyman.
Release
Barely Legal was released as part of a two-disc set with One Night Stand 2006 on July
11, 2006. It had previously been released in 2000 by Pioneer
Entertainment as part of its "The Best of ECW" line of DVDs. The
Pioneer release trimmed out many of the ring entrances, removed the
music on the entrances not edited out (with the exception of songs
ECW owned the rights to, including changing "Enter Sandman" from
the Metallica version to
Motörhead's cover),
and edited out the backstage promos and part of Shane Douglas's
promo in the ring. The release included with One Night Stand's DVD
censored offensive language (used by the performers when they would
cut promos, not used for the fans' chants) and changed the majority
of the entrance music to music produced by WWE to avoid licensing
fees.
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