The final nail in the ECW coffin was delivered this past Tuesday night in Kansas City, Missouri. In the wake of the final episode of ECW on SyFy, many fans are now left scratching their heads & wondering who from the ECW roster is going where. Let’s look at the roster as of the last episode of ECW & see where the talent might be best suited.

ECW Announcers Byron Saxton & Josh Matthews - Superstars. Raw & SmackDown! already have announce teams. Make them the permanent voices of the Superstars program.

Abraham Washington & Tony Atlas - Also keep them on Superstars. With the segments on Raw & SmackDown!, they would really serve no purpose on either program. But if I had to guess, they’ll go to Raw as a weekly segment featuring the guest host of the week. Sweeps! Shoot me now.

Caylen Croft & Trent Beretta - Superstars then eventually SmackDown!. The tag team division in WWE is severely lacking & it’s long past time to put new teams on each program. SmackDown! seems to be featuring more of the younger guys & they would fit in nicely here.

Christian & ECW General Manager Tiffany - This is a TOUGH one. I honestly think Christian & Tiffany would make a fun pairing to watch on either program. For now, also move them to SmackDown!. It could lead to an eventual reunion of Edge & Christian (which would be tremendous for the tag division). In the post WrestleMania Draft, move at least Christian to Raw. With TNA running against WWE on Monday nights, WWE is going to want the best roster possible on its flagship program. Christian brings A LOT to the table & is one of the more underrated talents on the WWE roster.

Goldust & Yoshi Tatsu - Time to break up the tag team. Both would be good additions for SmackDown! as well. Younger talent can get the rub by beating Goldust (former Intercontinental Champion) on TV. Tatsu can have some great singles matches with guys like RTruth, John Morrison, Rey Mysterio, etc.

Hurricane Helms - Superstars. It just seems like The Hurricane or Gregory Helms characters would be lost on both shows. Keep him on Superstars as a backstage interviewer & wrestler until something can be figured out.

Zack Ryder & Rosa Mendez - Raw. There is plenty of talent Ryder could have a great match with on the flagship program (Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne, MVP). Raw seems to lack in the department of strong heels & Ryder would be a nice fit. At some point, the pairing of Ryder & a heel Miz or a feud between heel Ryder & face Miz is a must.

ECW Ring Announcer Savannah - Make her the permanent ring announcer of Superstars.

Shelton Benjamin - Raw. Pair him back up with Charlie Haas & reform the World’s Greatest Tag Team to strengthen the weak tag division.

Vance Archer - Superstars. Seriously; what do you do with Lance Hoyt?

Vladimir Kozlov - Raw. Slowly build him up to be a monster again by taking out guys like Bourne, Kingston, & others leading up to matches with guys like Mark Henry and tougher opponents. No reason he can’t be at least a solid mid-carder.

William Regal - SmackDown! & give him a World Championship push. Does he have a checkered history? Yes. But WWE put the ball in Jeff Hardy’s hand. It cannot hurt to give Regal a run with SmackDown’s top championship. It would be fresh & whoever eventually beats him for it would get a heck of a rub in the eyes of the fans.

ECW Champion Ezekiel Jackson - Why there was a title change on the last episode of ECW when the championship is being retired is beyond me. Smartest thing to do for the time being would be to keep him paired with Regal on whatever program Regal winds up going to.

Bloodsport : ECW’s Most Violent Matches.

Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorized Story of the ECW book.

Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore book.

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This past week there were a couple of matches that I would like to discuss for this week’s WWE week-in-review. The two matches are from ECW and Smackdown. The ECW match was the ECW Championship match with Christian defending his title against William Regal and on Smackdown it was the World Heavyweight Champion the Undertaker taking on Chris Jericho.

First, let’s discuss the ECW title match from last week’s Tuesday. To be dead honest, I only saw the end of the match coming off the last commercial break, and it totally pissed me off that Regal didn’t win the championship. Why it pisses me off is Regal deserves the title. Regal could better the ECW championship and as ECW Champion he could better the ECW brand. And with that, that title match was Regal’s last shot for the ECW championship. And for everyone’s last title shot, they normally win the title during their last shot, even in their hometown, like ECW was in this past week (along with the whole WWE roster), being in England.

And like said, I can see William Regal as ECW Champion is a good thing for the brand. Why, and how? Regal’s facial expressions are great, and Regal can wrestle. Regal’s in-ring style would be best for the brand as champion. But before I go more with why I think Regal should be ECW Champion and get angry about it, I’ll go to the next match I want to discuss.

On Friday Night Smackdown, we saw one-half of the Undisputed Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho take on the World Heavyweight Champion the Undertaker in their first ever one-on-one battle. Similar to the Regal/Christian match, this match made me upset because they should have done their first one-on-one encounter to be on a pay-per-view. Heck, I’ve heard rumors that Jericho will be facing Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVI. So giving away the match for free is totally stupid!

But if anyone can make a great match with Jericho is the Undertaker, and vice versa, if anyone can make a great match with the Undertaker is Jericho. I could have watched this match when it was aired on Friday night, but chose not to because I think it is stupid that they gave this match away for free. But talking to one of my buddies is who huge into the business said the match was great. And I can believe that. And the Undertaker won with Hell’s Gate on Jericho.

And the thing that shocked me the most when Big Show joined Jericho on the post-match beat down on the Undertaker, Kane came out and made the save. Why this shocked me the most is, this is a tag match that I would absolutely love to see, and we can see it this coming Friday night on Smackdown! So watch it while it’s being aired if you can, if not, T-Vo it, tape it on VCR, or whatever, you should watch it!

But to wrap it up, this was a decent week for main events this past week. But anyways, this is Eric Darsie from Minnesota, thinking of when he would hang out again with B-Chef, goodbye!

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