Okay, so WWE has been PG for a while now. Is the third brand still worthy to be called ECW? I'm not sure about the rest of you but for me, this is the show I hate to watch. As far as I'm aware, there are never any real storylines and it's just full of new guys. I'm not saying new talent is bad but they need to rub shoulders with big stars for me to give a crap about them and to me, Christian, Regal and Benjamin don't exactly qualify as big stars. They were going well for a while with Evan Bourne, Morrison and Swagger but as soon as they hit big they traded them away. Now who are they left with?

What do you think about the current state of ECW? And do you watch it often?

Well, the show itself is not bad, but it has NOTHING to do with the original ECW concept.
I think they should've changed the name a long time ago...

the ECW isnt the only thing that the PG rating have killed!

Sad but unfortunately true...

yeah, the PG rating is killing ECW... it has good talens in the roster but it's a show that looks it's totally lefy behind... it's very sad... maybe the E could be more for "Extra Championship Wrestling"... or.... change it for a N... "Newcomers Championship Wrestling" (i like the new talent but there should be some big names to lift the show up

Right now it should be EXPENDABLE CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING!!

Since the WWE brought back ECW, its gradually gone downhill. Dont get me wrong when it was first back it had good wrestling as well as the bit of the old feel of the old ECW but once they decided it was the C show, and started pushing it as a development brand for RAW and Smackdown, it's been terrible.

Personally I haven't watched the show in since early this year simply because I dont care for any of the wrestler other than Christian.

I liked the former ECW-matches and the WWE-hardcore-matches.

Now Hardcore-matches don't exist anymore, and ECW is just another Wrestling-show

I think WWE could have one "harder" show (I'm not even talking about real hardcore) without leaving their good clean family entertainment concept.

No because ECW under WWE's watch has never been much like the old version- it's good to see the longer matches and focus on midcarders but I can live without the hardcore overdose!

Well, mainstream wrestling could use a dose of hardcore these days. It's not necessary to go to the extremes that made ECW famous in the 90s and it's surely not necessary to add ultraviolent stuff in the vein of CZW, but I don't see a point in calling that show EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING when there's nothing extreme in it...

At least in the ECW-maches at the PPVs (though the last was scheduled months ago) they could use these "steel"-tons or some tables.

By the way: I just watched some of the tag team matches from the late 90s an early 2000s years, when the hardys, christian/egde an eypecially the Dudkey were competing with laddes, chairs, tons, kendo-sticks, tables and other stuff almost every week. THAT was great.

I think the issue with this idea is that what happens on the PPV? You'll have 90% that is PG-13 and 10% Violent...the two don't really mesh well because the harder stuff would make the PG-13 look weak...

Also CZW sucks!!! I can't stand watching them because it is unncessary viloent. Too much unnessary blood. I don't even consider it wrestling because all their wrestlers have limited wrestling skill and anyone can bleed...These people are hurting themselves and bleed for the couple hundred people who go watch them and because CZW is a small company they probably get paid peanuts...it's stupid wrestling.

I'm not a big fan of ultraviolent stuff, although I watch CZW from time to time. But that's not the point. If WWE wants to call its c show ECW, then the show has to live up to its name. No one wants to see Taih Peh death matches or no rope barb wire matches on mainstream tv, but a bit more violence would be nice. Right now, ECW is just a weaker version of WWE's main shows.