#3 Terry Funk wins the ECW title – Barely Legal, April 13th, 1997
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Terry Funk was already a wrestling legend when he promised to help the fledgeling Eastern Championship Wrestling (which later became ECW) by appearing on shows.
Besides being the main foreign attraction in Japan, he had also had stints in the two major American promotions (WWF and WCW) – wrestling the mainstays of those two promotions in Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair respectively.
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Paul Heyman banked on Funk’s credibility to push ECW to the mainstream and Funk returned Heyman’s call when he decided to take part in ECW’s first ever PPV – Barely Legal in 1997.
Funk headlined the card, first beating Steven Richards and the Sandman in a Triple threat match to become the No. 1 contender for Raven’s ECW World title, before beating the master of the Flock for the title later that night.
Funk would later lose the title to Sabu in an insane barbed wired match where the ring ropes were replaced with barbed wires. Funk would have further stints in the WWE and WCW and continued to wrestle till 2015 at the age of 71.
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