Is ECW dead (spoilers)

[Fabien Barthez]

Christian, Goldust, Benjamin and Regal is an awesome choice of guys to build whatever developmentals they have on the way. They are currently all out of the main writing at the minute, they all always have good matches and they all make who they wrestle look exceptional. And at this stage in their careers, all very safe workers.

I am usually pretty negative about WWE and the idiot moves they pull to saturate their product with increasing bullshit and decreasing relevance and wrestling... but the fact they have 4 guys like these, and instead of old policy of making a 5 minutes of fun tag team and then throwing them back on the bench, they are putting them on TV in order to develop and push new talents by putting on good length, solid matches... I think that's a great thing for the wrestler, the business and the fan.

So ECW isn't at all dead. It is still the best thing about WWE right now, even if they don't technically have any new talent on the roster yet.

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by Fabien Barthez Christian, Goldust, Benjamin and Regal is an awesome choice of guys to build whatever developmentals they have on the way. They are currently all out of the main writing at the minute, they all always have good matches and they all make who they wrestle look exceptional. And at this stage in their careers, all very safe workers. I am usually pretty negative about WWE and the idiot moves they pull to saturate their product with increasing bullshit and decreasing relevance and wrestling... but the fact they have 4 guys like these, and instead of old policy of making a 5 minutes of fun tag team and then throwing them back on the bench, they are putting them on TV in order to develop and push new talents by putting on good length, solid matches... I think that's a great thing for the wrestler, the business and the fan. So ECW isn't at all dead. It is still the best thing about WWE right now, even if they don't technically have any new talent on the roster yet.

I think it's fairly telling that most of those guys are the same guys who would be mostly on Velociheat.

Now, it doesn't mean they're abandoning it, but surely putting a positive spin on a move consistent with prior WWE burials might be a good time to rethink things. Again, this isn't a foregone conclusion, but it's one Val Venis away from a veritable perfect storm.