25th Anniversary of “ECW Barely Legal”

Busted Open

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Ring Of Honor, News, Sports News, Leisure, Aew, Professional Wrestling, Mark Henry, Nxt, Bully Ray, Sports, Njpw, Dave Lagreca, Tommy Dreamer, Wwe, Wrestling

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Happy 25th Anniversary to ECW’s 1st ever Pay-Per-View, “Barely Legal”! Our hosts Dave LaGreca, along with ECW Originals Tommy Dreamer and Hall of Famer Bully Ray break down the inner workings, and some never heard before stories from the historic and groundbreaking event. It’s a terrific listen as Bully and Tommy take you behind the scenes of a moment in time that almost never took place, and one which still inspires professional wrestling today. To visit our partners at Chewy, click here. The Master's Class is now available on its own podcast feed! SUBSCRIBE NOW to hear over 50 episodes of Dave, Bully, Mark, and Tommy taking you behind the scenes like only they can, plus BRAND NEW episodes every week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Busted Open ad-free and get exclusive access to bonus episodes. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	This is The Busted Open Podcast.
0:04.3	You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, Eastern,
0:09.3	on Series XM, Fight Nation, Channel 156.
0:20.8	Welcome to The Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca.
0:25.0	On today's episode, the innovator violence, the landlord of the House of Hardcore and the Heart and Soul
0:29.8	of Professional Wrestling, Tommy Dreamer and I, look back at this date, 25 years ago today, April 13th, 1997,
0:39.4	the first ever ECW paper view, barely legal.
0:43.1	We look back with Hall of Fame co-host here on Busted Open, Bully Ray, right now on The Busted Open Podcast.
0:51.4	You feeling a man? You had a good mood this morning?
0:59.4	Oh, wait, 25 years ago, I think about life and this was one of the biggest days of my life at the time.
1:09.4	You just look at how life changes throughout the years. It's pretty damn cool, really is.
1:15.9	Well, let's dive right into it since you brought it up 25 years ago today.
1:20.9	April 13th, 1997, Tommy, the first ever ECW paper view, barely legal.
1:29.9	Oh, wow. I remember it like it was yesterday, which is scary because it was 25 years ago, Tommy.
1:37.9	My God.
1:40.9	Thank you to social media because another historic date on the same day, in 2000, in April, when, same day, the,
1:53.9	Taz took the title off of Mike Awesome.
1:58.9	I was the guy who kind of helped him was the referee and that was another historical date because it was a legit WCW contracted wrestler versus a WWE contracted wrestler inside.
2:09.9	And ECW ring, that was before the term forbid and door.
2:14.9	And that was not kicked in. It was blown up.
2:19.9	Another thing that happened on this day, but I'm just talking about like for me and my own personal life slash history, like all these amazing moments.
2:32.9	For for barely legal was just such a different, different time.
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