Barely Legal 1997 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 . Background . Seven professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the card . In one of the show ' s main event ' s , Terry Funk defeated The Sandman and Stevie Richards in a Three - Way Dance to earn an immediate title match against ECW World Heavyweight Champion Raven , which Funk also won to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship . In another main event , Taz defeated Sabu via submission . Featured matches on the undercard included Shane Douglas defeateding Pitbull # 2 to retain the ECW World Television Championship and The Eliminators ( John Kronus and Perry Saturn ) defeateding The Dudley Boyz ( Buh Buh Ray and D - Von ) to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship . Barely Legal featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre - existing scripted feuds , plots , and storylines . Wrestlers portrayed a villain or a fan favorite as they followed a series of events that built tension , culminating in a wrestling match or series of matches . Difficulties getting pay - per - view companies to air Barely Legal arose in late 1996 . Request TV initially canceled the show after video of the November 1996 " Mass Transit " incident surfaced . Another company , Premiere , expressed concern over the amount of violence ECW showcased , and that its programming was not suitable for children . Eventually , through the efforts of e - mails from hundreds of fans , Premiere decided to carry the event . However , e - mails sent to Viewer ' s Choice were unsuccessful in convincing the company to air the show , as they believed ECW was real and unscripted . After further discussions with ECW owner Paul Heyman , Request TV reversed their earlier decision and agreed to carry the event under certain conditions which included , among other things , an advanced script of the show , pushing back the scheduled start time from 7 p . m . to 9 p . m . , and no excessive amount of blood . Event . Preliminary matches . The first match to air live on pay - per - view was a tag team match for the ECW World Tag Team Championship between the champions , the Dudley Boyz ( Buh Buh Ray and D - Von ) , and the challengers , The Eliminators ( John Kronus and Perry Saturn ) . The majority of the match was controlled by The Eliminators using a variety of double - team and high - flying maneuvers . The match ended when The Eliminators performed their finishing move , Total Elimination , and Saturn defeated Buh Buh Ray to win the ECW Tag Team Championship . The following match was a standard singles match between Lance Storm and Rob Van Dam . Chris Candido was originally scheduled to be Storm ' s opponent , but could not compete due to a biceps injury . The match was fast - paced with both men exchanging control throughout , using many high - risk maneuvers , as well as steel chairs . At about the ten - minute mark , Storm connected with two chair shots to Van Dam ' s head . Before he could connect for the third time , Van Dam sprung up from his knees and performed a Van Daminator , kicking the chair Storm was holding into his face . Van Dam then performed a standing moonsault and defeated Storm for the victory . The next match was a six - man tag team match featuring wrestlers from Michinoku Pro Wrestling which saw Taka Michinoku , Terry Boy and Dick Togo battle The Great Sasuke , Gran Hamada and Masato Yakushiji ( who replaced the injured Gran Naniwa ) . The action was back - and - forth between both teams and filled with high - flying maneuvers . The team of Sasuke , Hamada and Yakushiji won the match when Sasuke defeated Michinoku with a tiger suplex . The following match was a singles match for the ECW World Television Championship between the champion , Shane Douglas and the challenger , Pitbull # 2 . Douglas was accompanied by his valet Francine and several " riot squad " officers . Pitbull # 2 ' s tag team partner , Pitbull # 1 , was shown sitting in the front row for the match because , according to the storyline , doctors had not medically cleared him to be ringside . Pitbull # 2 rushed to the ring and immediately began attacking Douglas . Pitbull # 2 controlled the early portion of the match with a series of takedowns and headlocks . Douglas then gained control after he countered a powerbomb with a headscissors takedown which brought both wrestlers over the top rope to the outside of the ring . Douglas tossed Pitbull # 2 back into the ring and performed three consecutive piledrivers . Later , both wrestlers ended up outside the ring and Pitbull # 1 jumped over the audience guardrail and attacked Douglas , but was soon stopped and escorted to the locker room by the riot squad officers . After Douglas and Pitbull # 2 exchanged control of the match for the next several minutes , Francine handed Douglas a pair of brass knuckles , which he then used twice on Pitbull # 2 . Douglas then hit Pitbull # 2 over the head with a portion of a broken table , as well as the timekeeper ' s ring bell . Douglas attempted multiple pins during the series of attacks but Pitbull # 2 kicked - out . After attempted outside interference from Chris Candido , Douglas performed a belly - to - belly suplex on Pitbull # 2 and defeated him for the victory to retain the ECW Television Championship . As previously stipulated , the masked man , wearing a " Ravishing " Rick Rude robe , came to the ring to unmask . The man planted a kiss on Francine , and performed Rude ' s signature gyrations before Douglas hit him in the back with his championship belt . While getting back to his feet , the masked man revealed himself to be Brian Lee , as one of the riot squad officers entered the ring and removed his helmet , revealing himself to be Rick Rude . A surprised Douglas attempted to plead with Rude but to no avail as Rude nailed him with a right hand punch followed by a chokeslam from Lee . Aftermath . Reception . ECW earned $ 66 , 000 in ticket sales from an attendance of 1 , 170 . The pay - per - view received a buyrate of 0 . 26 , which is the equivalent of approximately 104 , 000 buys . 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 . However , the event was also released completely uncut ( 18 certificate ) with all entrances , original music , backstage vignettes and swearing included on the UK DVD and VHS release in 2001 , released through Delta Music . This was a region free DVD .