What If RVD Hadn’t Gotten In Trouble With The Law In 2006?

3. No Vince McMahon ECW Championship Reign

Vince McMahon was the most unlikely ECW Champion.

One of the most inauspicious pieces of the ECW Championship’s legacy is the fact that Vince McMahon himself won the title. While it’s true that McMahon also held the WWE Championship, that reign was toward the peak of his celebrity as an on-air character, and nicely fit his heated feud with Triple H at the time. WWE—and particularly its ECW brand—was not hot when McMahon won that title off of Bobby Lashley.

Had RVD never gotten into trouble, he may well have stayed on top of ECW for the brand’s first year. McMahon may have still feuded with Lashley, but perhaps WWE would have let the angle go after their WrestleMania showdown involving Donald Trump and Umaga.

Even if the feud had gone out, it hopefully wouldn’t have involved the ECW Championship, and the title could have avoided at least that particular tarnish, which might have made some difference in the longer run.