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I was originally under the impression Sabu would take the World Heavyweight Championship, add its history to the original ECW Championship and become the ECW World Heavyweight Champion, but I've since become persuaded to believe Rey Mysterio will retain. It won't be a huge blow to ECW, as Mysterio is a former "ECW Wrestler", thus him winning is only a "Aww, shucks" moment for Paul Heyman. Rob Van Dam cannot lose to John Cena (unless Cena goes over to ECW). RVD can forfeit the belt afterwards or he can lose it at Vengeance, but he cannot fail to win it at One Night Stand.
The only way I see John Cena walking out as WWE Champion is if Rhyno returns and Gores RVD, holds up the ECW World Heavyweight Championship he last held, and declares he is the Extreme World Champion, etc. Somehow, some way, ECW needs to have a World Title by the end of One Night Stand.
Personally, the way I would do it by having Sabu win the World Heavyweight Title and renaming it the ECW Title, especially considering the irony that the belt resembles the WCW Championship, and RVD wins the WWE Championship, loses it as Vengeance and that title becomes interpromotional, defended between RAW and SmackDown!.
So we have Sabu on ECW with the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, which history is comprised of the original ECW Title and the World Title created by Eric Bischoff for Triple H (so technically Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Goldberg, Chris Benoit, Randy Orton, Batista, Kurt Angle and Rey Mysterio are former ECW Champions). We also have the WWE Championship as RAW and SmackDown!'s shared World Title.
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