The Rise of The Hurricane and The Distinguished Gentleman

For weeks on ECW, mysterious accidents have occurred backstage. But a force quick and powerful as a hurricane has always saved the day.

The Hurricane, the green and black clad superhero, has reemerged – this time in the Land of Extreme!

Some are zeroing down on the identity – but no one more than “The Ripper” Paul Burchill.

Gregory Helms, since drafted to ECW, has acted as an interviewer to the superstars – however, Burchill suspects that Helms and Hurricane are one in the same.

Prior to his match with Yoshi Tatsu, Burchill clocked Helms right in the face in the middle of the interview segment.

Burchill may have dominated the interview and his match, but it was the Hurricane who made his emphatic statement through a top turnbuckle cross body and his heroic stance that strikes fear into the hearts of his enemies.

Hurricane stands as a beacon of hope; he is the symbol that ECW needed.

But what people love more than to watch their hero succeed, is to watch their hero fall, fail, die trying.

Now that Hurricane is fighting in the ring – what will happen the next time when another backstage incident occurs? And how quick will the people turn on the green vigilante?

One week from defending the ECW Championship in an extreme rules match, Christian learns of his next opponent - William Regal.

William Regal is not one to take lightly, since he does hold a considerable amount of titles. Regal is a 4-time World Tag Team Champion, 5-time Hardcore Champion, 4-time European Champion, 2-time Intercontinental Champion, and the 2008 King of the Ring winner.

However, Regal's most notable accomplishment was as the General Manager of RAW. Regal said on ECW that the English are known to be barbaric - well... Regal's reign of terror on Monday Nights was barbaric.

He went on this crusade of getting the RAW audience to respect him - but of course all you would here was boos. He would even ask to have the arena lights shut off for short periods of time to demand respect. But tactics like that did not work for the RAW audience. It was actually during a WWE Championship match on RAW where Regal turned off the lights for a brief moment - thus ending the match prematurely - but not without a hellacious RKO on the Champion, Triple H. Then the time when Orton invoked his rematch clause against Triple H on RAW - William Regal, still trying to get respect from the fans, felt that the WWE Universe did not deserve to see a Championship Match and had the bout taken off the air.

William Regal is barbaric and - if he is willing to force the WWE Video Room to pull RAW off the air prematurely, especially during a WWE Championship Match - should be feared.

Yet, Regal promised to show Christian why he is so barbaric by destroying Tommy Dreamer in the main event on ECW. What he showed Christian is his sloppiness in the ring. Regal appears to be out of practice - especially since his last title reign was lost in a lame trilogy feud with CM Punk.

If Regal intends on capturing the ECW Championship, he's going to have to do better than that. Possibly improve on the Regal Stretch - a submission move that resembles the STF - but the opponents arm is placed behind his back.

Whatever the case may be - Christian finally has a new opponent and would be great if the feud lasts longer than one title match. Stay tuned on ECW, as things in the Land of Extreme heats up between the ECW Champion and The Distinguished Gentleman.