Dead and Gone: What Happened ECW

The heading of this article sums up what everybody feels about ECW at the moment. When it was announced that the WWE was bringing back ECW as a new brand back in 2006 I think everybody was excited about the prospects.

We all couldn't wait to see the violent,brutal, and bloody matches which became synonymous with the letters ECW. We couldn't wait to see the show that made men such as RVD, Sabu, Mick Foley, and Terry funk famous.

Instead we got the complete opposite. ECW became a show where WWE sent superstars to improve and enhance their skills or else send old wrestlers, who were no longer needed, to rot in the shadows of ECW.

At the beginning the WWE bought back some old ECW favorites to help boost its appeal, superstars such as, RVD, Sabu, and Sandman. They also boosted impressive roster of ECW wrestlers with established wrestlers such as Kurt Angle.

However a year into ECW wrestlers such as the Sandman and Sabu were gone. Even ECW founder Paul Heyman left as he disagreed with how the WWE ran ECW.

I have watched ECW disintegrate from a brand with huge potential to a pathetic excuse of a WWE brand.

It is now a brand where WWE wants to send new talent to learn and develop skills but at the same time leave good talent rot such as Christian and Jack Swagger.

I understand why WWE wants a place to send its talent to develop and learn new skills but what upsets me most is the fact that the WWE has the ruin the reputation of a once famous wrestling industry to satisfy its own needs.

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