And Vince will be so upset that your are no longer watching!

The reason its touring with Smackdown is costs.
It would have been a huge gamble to launch the show as a stand alone entity, but they way they have done it minimises the risks of financial loss.

As I said before, initially ECW is using SD as a way of getting itself launched, and should tv figures and more importantly, house shows independent of SD, be a huge success, only then would it be financially sound to move the main show away as a stand alone entity.

Please try to remember that ECW went bust years ago, so relaunching it was always gonna be a huge risk in Mahons eyes!

I think bsams said it before, ECW only became this hugely popular phenomenon since they went out of business.

As for Test, who knows how he will adapt to ECW.
For all you know, this could be the thing that really makes him raise his a-game to a level never seen in a WWE ring.
ECW is a very different style of wrestling to WWE, and thats most evident in the change in Kury Angles wrestling style, so its entirely possible that a guy as stiff as Test, could actual find it plays to his meagre talents better than WWE ever did.
Same goes for guys like Orton & Lesnar.

Anybody who really expects this to be the old ECW is fucking crazy.
It was never gonna be that.

Snarf is shit. His death will be rejoiced!