“Don’t you know I’m still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid”

Those Elton John lyrics sprang to mind the minute I heard that the ECW brand was being tossed. How many have come and gone? AWA was on ESPN, so was Global.They’re both gone.ECW was the product of the “genius” Paul Heyman, yet he put it in bankruptcy and Vince McMahon used it as an afterthought before putting it out of its misery. I can give you a list of wrestling companies, large and small, who are out of business. You know who’s still here? NWA, that’s who. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the supposedly knowledgeable insiders (amongst them the aforementioned Mr. Heyman) keep knocking the NWA—funny, how they knock it, but have to keep referring to it. It’s too old, it only plays to small crowds, it’s not on network TV. But they have to keep knocking us, because, despite all their knowledge, they’re gone, and we’re still here. Still running all over the country, 4,5,6,7 shows a week, running in the gyms, the armories, wherever, but RUNNING and getting pro wrestling in front of the people. So pardon me if I don’t shed too many tears about ECW ending up on the scrap heap. They thought they killed us years ago. But we’re still standing. And we’re still wrestling. Same as it ever was.