Barely Legal (1996)

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Barely Legal 1996 was was a professional wrestling event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling which took place on 26th October 1996. It was the first and only PPV in the ECW company(excluding ECW vs WWF which was more of a PPV for WWF)

## Background

In the huge copromotional show of WWF and ECW, Vader defeated Taz in the main event to retain the WWF Championship and become ECW Heaviweight champion to a legit riot from the crowd. Vader shockingly showed up in the last Hardcore TV as he said the fans should be praising him for saving this company, Meng showed up and challenged him as everyone was hype because their last battle was at Starrcade 1993 and it was a 5 star extreme bout, ECW marketed this PPV as "WWF vs WCW in an ECW ring" as Meng was still signed to WCW but in a non exclusive deal so the fact that both companies would be fighting here against each other was a huge marketing point

At ECW vs WWF, Rob Van Dam attacked Paul Heyman shockingly revealing himself as the ECW mole that was sent by WWF to destroy ECW, his tag team partner Terry Funk showed up asking him what the hell was he doing and RVD proceeded to attack him too. The tag titles were vacated due to this but the now Intercontinental Champion RVD showed up in an episode of Hardcore TV as he made it clear to Funk that he respected him as a mentor but he wanted to end his career, Funk shook hands with him but got low blowed again

Sabu, Taz and Douglas with Paul Heyman as their manager as the Dangerous Alliance led ECW during most part of 1995 but as soon as they lost their titles, Taz started losing his temper as he only wanted the ECW heaviweight title and not be part of the stable with no belts anymore. At Extreme Rumble, Taz shockingly choked out Shane Douglas and eliminated him but Douglas reentered the ring and eliminated him. The whole group broke out as Taz became champion and choked out everyone, he ended up losing the title and Paul Heyman blamed him, Taz proceeded to choke him out and then almost injure Douglas with a knee to the back of the head. Heyman made one of the biggest threeways in the history of ECW for its first ever PPV as it'll be Sabu vs Taz vs Shane Douglas with the winner facing the ECW champion at November to Remember

Since the ECW tag titles were vacated, Heyman made a championship chase for it which ended up with Dudley Boyz vs Tommy Dreamer and Raven for tonight, due to the championship chase rules Dudley Boyz are now allowed to have a third member and make it a handicap match

New Jack went crazy and attacked his tag team partner Mustafa Saed, he grabbed a fork and stabbed him in the ribs. Mustafa was out of action for a while but once he came back he only wanted New Jack as he kept interfering in his matches and challenging him everytime and everytime Jack would refuse as he knew as soon as they got in the ring together, he would murder him. After Jack and Guido lost the championship chase, Jack accepted the match against Mustafa just because he wanted to kill someone

Blue World Order have been hugely over since they debuted in may, The Blue Guy decided to challenge Kid Kash for the TV Championship tonight

## Details

* Sabu shows himself off here as a genocidal, suicidal, death defying machine that he is, he wins by pushing Taz's face onto barbed wire and then doing a tornado DDT onto a chair
* RVD says he made Konnan leave, he made Juventud Guerrera leave, he persuaded Rey to join WCW and now he has ended the career of the only person in this trash roster that could hope to bring ECW to mainstream, and with that he leaves
* Mustafa and New Jack have the most extreme ECW match of all time, lighttubes to broken glasses to lots of blood, this single match led to the cancelation of ECW on PPV, New Jack for some reason shaves Mustafa's head and even tries to razor his eyeball, New Jack and Guido put him through a table to win the match
* Dudley Boyz's tag partner is a really serious Big Dick Dudley, foe has turned to friend
* Meng finally wins the ECW title in a brutal battle as both men came out of it needing at least 40 stitches. Vince Mcmahon and Bischoff were completely pissed as Vince said he'd never work with Heyman again and Bischoff suspended Meng "for his actions"