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As many fans know around the world, World Wrestling Entertainment will be bringing back the Extreme Championship Wrestling brand from the dead in the summer of 2006. ECW hasn't been on television since January of 2001 when they were on the TNN network (now Spike TV). The current brand will have a lot of the older and more notable ECW superstars but it will feature some new talent as well. The confirmed few superstars who are going to return to ECW this year are Rob Van Dam, Jazz, Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, and The Sandman. Since this is now confirmed and set to happen for sure, it brings a lot of questions to go along with what will be brought with the brand. Things like, Will This Only Be An ECW Product" Is McMahon Using This To Only Make WWE Look Superior" Will The New Brand Be Used Properly" How Much Control Will Paul Heyman Actually Have" I guess only time will tell to see what happens with this.

ECW first started in 1993 when Paul Heyman was handed pretty much the leftovers of Eastern Championship Wrestling. Heyman felt that Pro Wrestling needed a change and that it needed to be different. Bringing in the collection of newer superstars that no one really heard of like Sandman, Sabu, and Tommy Dreamer, Paul E. started making a new brand of entertainment that was violent and more risky than from what anyone has ever seen before.

In the late 1990's, many fans started loving ECW and they were very loyal and still are to this day. By the new millennium, ECW was big but many of it's stars were leaving because of issues like creative difference or money problems. Top names like The Dudley Boyz, Tazz, and Raven all left for the WWE and others like Lance Storm and Mike Awesome left for WCW. The problems didn't get any better as the company had to eventually shut down and end Paul Heyman's dream for what he wanted in the business.

After it was over, former top ECW wrestlers like Rhyno, Jerry Lynn, and Tajiri came to WWE and made good names for themselves. Then in the summer of 2001, other ECW stars came to WWE like Rob Van Dam, Tommy Dreamer, Mike Awesome, and Lance Storm and they even did an InVasion angle where ECW teamed with WCW to try and take out the WWE. As some like the idea, it wasn't too much of a success as it wasn't the real form of fans remember from each brand. Then almost out of no where in 2005, WWE announced that they were doing a one time only ECW Pay Per View called ECW One Night Stand featuring many past ECW stars and current WWE stars from the promotion. The show was a huge success and did a lot better than many thought which probably surprised a lot. This was almost the start of the return for what is to come now.

Now a year later, WWE plans on doing another ECW Once Night Stand show and it hopes to be just as good as before. What was more surprising though is that ECW will return to television as a separate brand on the Sci Fi Network. Many might wonder if this will hurt an outside promotion named TNA, which has many former ECW stars like Team 3-D, Raven, Rhino, and Jerry Lynn. You never really know if any of them might and/or want to "Join The Revolution." This return could even hurt the WWE itself which might not be Mr. McMahon's plan. Lots of superstars from RAW and Smackdown! that used to be in ECW and they will probably end up joining so the roster looks stronger and larger. It would be something if this hurts WWE more than anything with the already hurt Smackdown Roster as it is. One thing is for sure as it was said directly from the man himself, Vince McMahon, "It Just Can't Be The Same."

by Michael Brown ..