The death...again.. of ECW was confirmed last night on SYFY.
from the Wrestling Online Newsletter:
The ECW brand has been killed yet again after Vince McMahon made an
appearance on yesterday's ECW on SyFy to announce that a new concept show
will be replacing ECW in three weeks. In his short announcement, McMahon
said that a "never-before- seen" concept will come to SyFy to replace ECW,
labeling as "the next evolution of television history." According to
PWInsider, the new brand will be called NXT which will stand for Next
Generation. WWE registered several variations of the name with the United
States Patent and Trademark Office last month
WWE's version of Extreme Championship Wrestling will be fading to black on
February 23, 2010 after being reintroduced on television on June 13, 2006.
The revival of ECW under the WWE umbrella came after a very successful "One
Night Stand" pay-per-view which the company produced in 2005, bringing back
several original ECW members for the show. After the second show a year
later, a weekly ECW - which was anything but extreme - television broadcast
made its debut on the then Sci Fi channel as the third WWE brand. While the
first episode got a good 2.9 rating, the show steadily declined over the
years with now sometimes not even passing the 1.0 barrier. As it stands now,
no member from the original ECW is on the show. Ever since WWE took over,
there has been thirteen different ECW champions - Rob Van Dam, The Big Show,
Bobby Lashley, Mr McMahon, John Morrison, CM Punk, Chavo Guerrero, Kane,
Mark Henry, Matt Hardy, Jack Swagger, Christian and Tommy Dreamer. Christian
is the reigning - and probably last - ECW champion.
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