Velocity Cancelled

RebelRockChick

Source: WrestlingObserver

At the end of some meetings yesterday, Vince McMahon decided that ECW will be taking the place of WWE Velocity.

For the time being, an ECW show will be taped prior to Smackdown every Tuesday. The ECW program will air on WWE.com (or probably ECW.com) for the time being, at least until it lands a time slot on U.S. television. At the present moment, Velocity would cease to exist. This television programming move must be devastating news to the likes of The Gymini, Orlando Jordan, Scotty 2 Hotty and Sylvan. WWE are currently in negotiations in an attempt to get ECW programming on U.S. television.

WWE plans on launching the ECW brand soon after ECW One Night Stand takes place. WWE are looking to run an ECW event at the old "ECW Arena" (New Alhambra Sports and Entertainment Complex) on Saturday, June 24th.

Stalfos

Why not get rid of Heat instead? The Cruiserweights practically live on Velocity and it generally is better than Heat. Heat has more older wrestler who are haven't much left like Val Venis, Goldust, Viscera etc...
Wonder if it will still be available online though. I still remember Beniot v regal matches.

RealJohn

Hey, Heat is great.
Bring back Metal.

Cactus Col

Stalfos wrote:

Why not get rid of Heat instead? The Cruiserweights practically live on Velocity and it generally is better than Heat. Heat has more older wrestler who are haven't much left like Val Venis, Goldust, Viscera etc...
Wonder if it will still be available online though. I still remember Beniot v regal matches.

Because Velocity is part of smackdown brand, and smackdown brand gets pissed on.

Stalfos

Too true

castagnoli

The cruisers better move onto the ECW brand so. Alot of guys like Super Crazy, Nunzio and Kash are former ECW stars, and it would definately benefit from the likes of Noble and the Hooliganz. The best thing about ECW was that it offered the best in CW and technical wrestling as well as the hardcore stuff.
Hopefully Gymini, Scotty, Jordan and Sylvan get lost in the change over.

Skud

Cactus Col wrote:

Because Velocity is part of smackdown brand, and smackdown brand gets pissed on.

omg how didnt anyone pick up on this first time round? It's long been obvious that mcmahon has a favourite and it ain't velocity/smackdown

Fozzy

That's a bit of a pity, because Velocity does have some really good matches, much moreso than Heat anyway. Can't imagine ECW lookin too good if they record it before SD though

Wonder what this means for us? Maybe the ECW tv show will just replace Velocity here