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Dark Matches From Barely Legal Pay Per View Event

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ECW Trivia Question

25 years ago today (April 13, 1997) ECW held its first-ever pay-per-view event, Barely Legal, at the ECW Arena. The first match shown live on the PPV featured The Eliminators vs the Dudley Boyz for the ECW tag-team championship. However, two “dark matches” took place for the live audience before the PPV aired. Who wrestled in those matches?

Answer:

Louie Spicolli defeated Balls Mahoney in one match. The other match had J.T. Smith & Chris Chetti defeat Little Guido & Tommy Rich (the Full Blooded Italians, aka the FBI).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_Barely_Legal#Results

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=381&page=2

This Day In ECW – April 6 1993 – First Eastern Championship Wrestling TV Show

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29 years ago today, on April 6 1993, the first episode of Eastern Championship Wrestling’s television program aired on SportsChannel Philadelphia. We found a terrific article written by David Taub in 2018 titled “Hardcore Wrestling: It All Started with ECW 25 Years Ago”. Please check out the full article here:

https://gvwire.com/2018/04/05/hardcore-wrestling-it-all-started-with-ecw-25-years-ago/

Here is more about David Taub:

https://gvwire.com/author/david-taub/

The article covers a lot of topics from the early days of ECW, then known as Eastern Championship Wrestling (also referred to as NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling). There are many names which hardcore ECW fans may only briefly know, and there are names which many ECW fans didn’t know who were responsible for putting together the first-ever TV shows.

Some of those names include: