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By Jerome Wilen

The best wrestling action this week for WWE TV was once again ECW.  There has been a lot of talk and spectulation that both SyFy and the WWE are going to re-brand ECW.  Other rumors are that the WWE and SyFy could drop the ECW name or cancel ECW.  The WWE and SyFy would be making a big mistake in cancelling this show.  While I did not catch RAW, I did watch ECW and SmackDown.  ECW had the best action and kept my interest for the entire hour. 

ECW showcases a lot of very good young up and coming talent with a mix of veterans.  While I do agree that the letters E-C-W really does not fit, a re-branded name might work better.  The WWE could use WCW since they own the rights to the name, but it may devert people from watching who had a ‘bad taste left in their mouths’ when the company began to go sour in 1999. 

They could showcase more talent from their developmental affiliate, Florida Championship Wrestling, using the FCW titles on TV, start the show an hour earlier again and expand it another hour and call it either FCW or Tuesday Titans which Andy Knowles from the Pro Wrestling Rewind radio show had suggested on a past show.  

One talent on ECW that I think is getting overlooked is Byron Saxton who replaced Matt Stryker who went to SmackDown following Jim Ross leaving because of medical issues.  I understand Byron was doing commentary at FCW.  I like Byron’s neutral side.  He supports both the heels and the faces, but tends to be that suttle heal like TNA attempted to do with Don West, but failed.

ECW deserves more credit that what it gets and the WWE should give it amore  big time feel each week and more time on PPV.