What If...

[SaveUs_Y2J]

What if.... Zack Ryder won the ECW championship. There's been a lot of 'What ifs' been thrown around in the forums recently so I had one of my own I wanted to share. So a few years ago Ryder was on the ECW brand and IMO this was the best part of his singles career so far. He was reaching the top of the ladder on ECW and then became the number one contender for ECWs 'Big One' but as we know he lost to Christian but what if he didn't say he won.
My questions are:-
Where would he be now?
What other titles would he have won?
What feuds would he have been in?
Would the IWC be as behind him as they are now?
Personally I think he would be in the mid card and maybe have won a few I.C or US title reigns and would have had a pretty long feud with Christian. I don't think the IWC would be as behind him because he would be getting used regularly obviously this is a summed version I hope your thoughts won't be as basic.
Thanks for reading and Your Thoughts ?

 

[Headman]

I don't think it would have mattered by that point. The ECW title had already stopped being featured on ppvs and was treated like a development title. Hell, most people stopped watching ECW all together (I know I did). For all many of us know he may have been ECW champion. So no, no change imo.

 

[ctln4rko]

I always wanted the Long Island Iced Z to become the ECW champ. I swear everytime he faced Christian for the title, I thought he'd win. But no!
1. I don't think it would change where he is. Big Zeke was the last ECW champ, and he has not done anything really big. (IC title, but besides that.....)
2. Maybe the IC/US title. If WWE gave him the ECW title, it would show that they believed in him, which they don't and didn't.
3. He would have feuded with Christian, maybe Yoshi.
4. No, most IWC smarks like him because he hasn't gotten a push.

 

[Dagger Dias]

If Ryder had won the ECW Championship then he would still have ended up exactly where he is now. The only difference is that on his show and in some of his Raw/Smackdown promos he would mention from time to time that he was a former ECW Champion. WWE does not seem to want fans to remember ECW though, you don't see them reminding us that Ryder was the one who retired Tommy Dreamer. Everything would have remained mor or less the same had he won that title. He'd still be a bit of a joke but over with the IWC and an ever growing fanbase at shows. I remember wanting him to win that title, but it will be better for him if his first title is the United States Championship since we all know ECW doesn't matter to WWE. They rarely acknowledge former champions other than Zeke or Christian and never mention it as a brand anymore.