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ECW:
* I always liked the idea of giving it a "next generation" ECW feel. You'd obviously have your older ECW guys there, but ECW was always about finding the cutting edge too.
* This might sound silly, but I think the WWE missed a major opportunity when they didn't have Eugene snap out of the retard gimmick at One Night Stand 2006. A great worker in the ring, Eugene actually had a very high profile RAW run, but it was time to move on and as a technical expert in ECW, he could have been their next wave's Dean Malenko-type.
* Chavo could have gone to ECW as their Eddie Guerrero. Obviously he's not regarded as being as charismatic, but his name giving him a chip on his shoulder works fine.
* They could have called Johnny Jeter up (or just had him move away from the Spirit Squad gimmick) as a modern answer to Chris Jericho. Seriously go back and watch his stuff from OVW. He looks and even moves like he absorbed the Chris Jericho bible.
* Brent Albright was a technical machine in OVW, and instead of calling him up as "Gunner Scott," bring him in to ECW with his "Shooter" gimmick as their modern answer to Chris Benoit. Having these four guys as your mid-carders whilst RVD, Kurt Angle and Jericho or whoever run the top of the card would have made the entire show more tolerable.
* I'd have considered Randy Orton for the brand. Something about him is so polished and way too glossy to be loved in ECW; but he's always been at his best playing counterpoint to it (the feud with Foley that basically demanded him the World Title). Orton trying to survive in ECW would have been strangely compelling television.
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