Tuesday Notes - ECW & Smackdown to Share; Booker Gone
On the heels of the company finally pulling the plug all together on ECW, it appears that a storyline will save the WWE's third brand after all. Reports state that the WWE is going to once and for all combine ECW and Smackdown together, and make it one large brand. The WWE's website is using it as a storyline, stating that there are "meetings" between Armando Estrada and Vickie Guerrero with the idea that the respective General Managers of ECW and Smackdown are close to a business agreement.
That deal would see talent from both brands compete on both ECW on Sci Fi and Friday Night Smackdown. Don't forget this is not a big deal from a logistic standpoint, as already the crews travel together, so putting a guy like a Rey Mystero on ECW would really be no big deal. The WWE realizes that ECW is by far and away the lesser of the third brand, and they want to try and save some of the talent over there and make it more interesting for the viewers. And in thinking about that, they should do whatever it takes to make both Tuesday nights and Friday nights better.
The other big news of the day is the release of three WWE stars. First the biggest name of all - King Booker. It's been known for sometime that Booker and the company did not see eye to eye, and he was upset over the treatment of his wrestling promotion in Texas. The last we heard of Booker he was on the RAW brand, and there was a lot of talk at him getting a title program with John Cena at the time, but it never happened. Of course with the release of Booker we also get the release of Sharmell, his real life wife.
Later in the day we had yet another release, this time Davari, who reportedly asked to be let go. Davari was not involved in many programs in his tenure with the company, and other than a couple of cruiserweight title matches, he was mostly a jobber that would lose to much bigger and over opponents.
