The best promo of the new ECW

This week saw, without a doubt, the best promo of the new incarnation of ECW. So who was it by?

Paul Heyman? No.

CM Punk? No.

RVD? Dear god no!

It was actually done by Rhino on this week's edition of TNA Impact. In 3 minutes the last ECW champion made the brand seem more important and relevant than 4 weeks of TV on Sci Fi. Perhaps even more than the whole One Night Stand pay per view, Rhino vocalised just what ECW meant to the world of professional wrestling. In short, it represents everything that WWE is not and that is why WWECW will never succeed. It can't. The rebel promotion can never exist under the corporate umbrella of the company it is rebelling against. It's even more difficult to be rebellious when being controlled obssesively by the man who is single handedly responsible for much of what is wrong with the wrestling business in 2006.

So it is left to TNA, the little promotion that could. After 4 years of struggling to make a name for itself, many felt the arrival of ECW could spell the end for TNA as they were instantly relegated to 4th palce in the wrestling fans brand consciousness. However it seems TNA are looking to put up a fight and good for them. By being the rebel promotion that WWECW can never be, then perhaps they can find the viewers that WWECW has alienated. Certainly the reception they got in Philadelphia would suggest the fans are willing to give TNA a chance and with them putting on a strong wrestling show in the ECW arena, they did a better job of earning those fans loyalty than WWE did when it ran in the Arena.

So thank you Rhino, for saying what needed to be said. This is perhaps the most important moment in your career, let's hope you are finally allowed to be given the oppurtunity to succeed at the level you deserved ever since ECW closed in 2001. And let's hope that this is finally the storyline that can help make TNA go from glorified indie to genuine competitor for WWE. It was one hell of a way to start it.