The inaugural ECW Pay Per View was Barely Legal on April 13, 1997. With its origins in Joel Goodhart's Tri-State Wrestling, ECW would morph from Eastern Championship Wrestling to the more defined and shambolic Extreme Championship Wrestling. Barely Legal was significant for the company and the wrestling business. Most fans and insiders considered ECW the 3rd most pertinent promotion in North America in the 90s. The announcement of its first PPV seemed to indicate that ECW had arrived. 

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