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5 Classic WWE, ECW and WCW matches to watch during social distancing

By Christopher Jeter

LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 08: WWE personalities Shawn Michaels (L) and Triple H throw glow sticks into the crowd at a news conference announcing the WWE Network at the 2014 International CES at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas on January 8, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The network will launch on February 24, 2014 as the first-ever 24/7 streaming network, offering both scheduled programs and video on demand. The USD 9.99 per month subscription will include access to all 12 live WWE pay-per-view events each year. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 10 and is expected to feature 3,200 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 150,000 attendees. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 08: WWE personalities Shawn Michaels (L) and Triple H throw glow sticks into the crowd at a news conference announcing the WWE Network at the 2014 International CES at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas on January 8, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The network will launch on February 24, 2014 as the first-ever 24/7 streaming network, offering both scheduled programs and video on demand. The USD 9.99 per month subscription will include access to all 12 live WWE pay-per-view events each year. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 10 and is expected to feature 3,200 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 150,000 attendees. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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John Morrison (c) vs. CM Punk – ECW Championship match (WWE ECW Sept. 4, 2007)

If WWE’s resurrection of ECW in 2006 taught fans anything, it’s that sometimes the past should be left exactly where it is. Or, at the very least, Vince McMahon shouldn’t be in charge of such a reclamation project.

That said, the company’s original third brand, which ran from 2006 to 2010 before getting canceled in favor of the original incarnation of NXT (which was a far worse show) wasn’t without its merits. Sure, it barely resembled the ECW that most fans knew and loved, but it was far more consistent than some people gave it credit for.

This ECW Championship match between CM Punk and John Morrison from the Sept. 4, 2007 episode of ECW, which served as the finale to their two-month feud over the brand’s most coveted prize, represented one of the high points of the show’s run.

A feud born out of the Chris Benoit double murder/suicide, these two met in three prior PPV matches that year, but due to ECW’s muted status compared to RAW and SmackDown, those encounters never surpassed eight minutes.

Here, they got over 16 minutes to build a dramatic story – which also centered around this being Punk’s last chance to beat Morrison for the ECW Title – and they didn’t waste a second of it. Was it the best match of either man’s career? No, but they kept the audience hanging on every move until Punk hit Morrison with the Go 2 Sleep for the gratifying pinfall to win his first championship in WWE.

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