Vince McMahon Speaks on The Current State of ECW

May 2, 2009

During the annual WWE shareholders meeting recently held, Vince McMahon had the following to say concerning the current state of the ECW brand:

"Currently, I am happy with ECW in terms of it’s format," McMahon said. "I’m unhappy with the television ratings, but more times than not it’s the No. 1 show on Sci-Fi… ECW is used in a different way than it was in the past. ECW at one time was a wild west, shoot ’em up, bang-bang. You can’t continue that way, so the ECW brand had to morph anyhow…You’ll see some of our younger talent on ECW and once they garner a certain amount of experience and we understand that the public likes them in some way we can move them to Raw or Smackdown. I won’t say that it’s a farm system, it’s really not. We have a great farm system down in Florida – Florida Championship Wrestling. It’s where a lot of our new performers enter the major leagues, so to speak, is ECW, and it’s working out well for everybody."

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.