Today's Miami Herald has an article up with with quotes by WWE Executive Vice President of Global Media, Shane McMahon. You can read the entire article here. Some highlights:

-- WWE looking to build a Wrestling Hall of Fame: "We've been close a number of times. We actually looked at a place in Orlando a few years ago. We don't know where it's going to settle, yet. I think it's probably still a couple of years away, but we're really anxious to do it." He added that they have a lot of memorabilia in a warehouse in preparation for the project.

-- WWE's International Expansion: "The countries that we are in, we want to make better. The countries where we are not currently, which aren't that many, we want to get in, get the market and then bring all of our properties in there. The first thing that we do, from our game plan standpoint, is you have to get on the air. So you need television. Once you have a television partner, you start to build certain things with them. After that, you usually bring in a live event. That's usually the next hit. Then from there, you bring in your merchandising, your licensing and all the other intellectual property aspects, and that's how we build the marketplace."

-- Another WWE Brand?: "There could be another entity that develops. We'll have to see what happens."

Well it could be beneficial for some guys.Y2J and Rey Mysterio for example are 'over' and 'Established' but not main event guys for some reason on Raw and Smackdown but always close to it.And there to Big for Ecw.And a guy like Chuck Palumbo or Chavo Guerrero would benefit and get major pushes.See it could be like this Raw and Smackdown are home to the Established guys and 'Big guys'...While ECW is more new young guys who are coming up and then WCW could be for guys like Y2J and Rey who are over but not the world champs on Raw or Smackdown.And that would be Shanes Department because he likes Smaller guys to be champions.They could even bring back The CruiserWeight Belt back for a new wcw.I dont know but we will see but i think it would be a benefit to some guys.And instead of making a new name for a new promotion they could use wcw because it is well known,hell if shane could perfect it and make it good and have high flyers and smaller guys as the champs...they could take fans away from tna as well as some wrestlers.

Why bother, they already had to merge ECW and SD together. It's probably going to be like an affiliation to Raw rather than really another brand. Something like Velocity or Heat.

I Diasagree...The only reason that ECW merged with SD is because they have pretty stupid writers for ECW.But also theres a few other reasons.You see when ECW first came back they had RVD,SABU,SANDMAN,they had about 10-15 ECW Originals plus BIGSHOW and KURT ANGLE but Of course angle lefted then when it became apparent that the New ECW would not be like the original and become like Standard WWE Format,the originals could not adapt to the wwe lifestyle so one by one they dropped.And ECW only had young guys lefted so they put the belt on CM PUnk and then did the merger thing.Now this is where the writers screwed up ECW.ECW has proably better entertaining athletes then Raw and SD has.ECW has MORRISON,BENJAMIN,KOFI KINGSTON.Those guys should be the ones main eventing ECW but instead now they have SD Guys that are ECW champs(Chavo Guerrero and Kane)but now supposidly Kane is now on the ECW Roster,which is great.But still he was a SD Guy.Then they have shelton benjamin not doing anything...John Morrison as tag team champion with miz(which is stupid)instead guys like JESSE AND FESTUS,EDGEHEADS,MOORE AND WANG should be Tagteam champs while Morrison main events Ecw.If the ECW main event guys were Morrison,Benajmin,Kingston,Stevie Richards,and now Kane.That could be exciting you would get great main events and they could be more exciting then Raw and SD.Now the other problem to why Ecw and SD merged is because theres not much guys that will work ecw because guys like HHH,CENA,ORTON,EDGE,UNDERTAKER,BATISTA,JBL,MVP,MR.KENNEDY would not make sense being on ECW plus they dont wanna work it because its looked at as the C-Show.And that goes back years even before ECW became apart of WWE.ECW was always looked at as the '3rd place company' coming out of the trashy 'bingo halls'...so ECW has a bad Rep to alot of guys.But alot of what is wrong with ecw is the writers not pushing the New ECW Guys and stop trying to have big names from Raw and SD come on.Now Kane is the only wwe veteran that has no problem working in ECW.But he is it.If vince and the writers could use their heads and use the guys they got in ECW then it would be better.And there would no longer a use for the merger.I hate this merger.I think every Brand should have its own identity.

I just found out I calculated my exam times wrong and I have an extra day until my first one, so yay! So I'll just take some time to go through a post now. Don't take this the wrong way because you've been a good poster here, but you really need to work on seperating your stuff into paragraphs


If they do make a seperate brand, they will need new writers for it. This means that people they didn't bother for ECW will come in. So when you think about it, they will be worse than ECW writers, thus making the new show even worse if it wasn't affiliated with Raw.


Well look at it like this, if they do bring back WCW as a seperate brand, they will be moving old guys there too. It won't be too much different than the ECW originals, just look at how some old WCW guys like Kevin Nash have done for themselves. Not terribly encouraging. You'll end up having to go in the same direction that ECW did and go with younger talent again.


Herein lies the problem. You talk about ECW having poor writers and booking, well it is no different than SD or Raw. A guy like Shelton has had his chances on those shows and they buried him. Even though he deserves a push on a better brand, would you rather not see him get a push, evne if it's only on ECW? The writers are lacking all over the place and adding new and crappier writers and ideas won't get the new brand too far either.


I think that's just a choice of build. Guys like MVP or Kennedy could've been built on ECW if WWE wanted them to, but they just chose not to. Had WWE put MVP and Kennedy on ECW, they would probably be main eventing there, but it was WWE wanting to stack their pushes on SD more that screwed them over. The same could happen if you had another brand because now nobody wants to compete on a "D-show". So to stop that problem, put them on the Raw roster and have them interchange between brands. This way you get new guys developing AND some veteran guys drawing some ratings.


I'm not too huge on the merger either, but it is neccessary. WWE needs ratings, and putting SD guys on there will do that. Back when Punk was ECW champ and before the merger, the ratings were no better. WWE had to do something, and that was burying some young talent. How I see it is that if another affiliation brand was made, you could spread the young ECW talent onto 2 shows and they will have a higher chance of getting pushed with at least a possibility of getting some time on Raw or SD. I'm sure glad that I have at least the possibility that I can see Shelton on SD rather than rotting away solely on ECW. His semi-push on ECW is bringing him onto SD a bit, and I'm all for it if that's what it takes for me to see what he can do again on a larger scale.

Thanks.Yea i will work on that seperating long paragraphs.But yea the writers are not doing good anywhere,now there just throwing feuds around which is bothering me.Just like 5 weeks ago batista was feuding with MVP,then Umaga and now bam one week after WM he's got a match with HBK!

And the same thing with JBL/FINLAY,JBL beat the crap out of hornswoggle,then fights finlay in one match and wins and then BAM the next week he's a contender for the wwe title while Finlay goes back to SD like a sore loser not trying to get revenge.

But oh well we will see what happends with a fourth brand,it could be just talk or an idea but it will be interesting!

The only way I can see any of the previous feuds being salvaged is using the draft. If they can move around people to the shows where the person they feuded with is, then something might come from it. Eg. Umaga to SD, then he can be like I want revenge feud.

Yea i think the draft is gonna be April 21.So for the next couple weeks some guys will just kinda be there not doing much like Y2J,im sure Punk will be sent to Raw and they can continue the feud with them 2.

If a fourth brand happens, sadly... it'll be WCW. They'll deem it a still marketable name, and they'll do it just like ECW.

Well its going to be a brand outside the country so I doubt it would be called WCW as WCW was never did well internationally and doesn't have much name value outside of North America and The UK.