10 Fascinating WWE Royal Rumble 2010 Facts

10. It Marked The Last ECW Championship Match On PPV

As of February 16, little more than two weeks after the pay-per-view, ECW would be no more. It would soon be replaced by the "game show" version of NXT that would bring Daniel Bryan into the WWE scope.

Seeing as Tommy Dreamer had exited the company at the start of the year, there was little point in keeping the home of "The Innovator of Violence' around. Besides, ECW had been in its death throes for quite some time anyway, and the plug was due to be pulled.

That meant that the Rumble was the final pay-per-view to feature an ECW Championship bout, as Christian defeated Ezekiel Jackson (later Lucha Underground's Big Ryck). Jackson would later capture the belt on ECW's final show, ending Christian's six month-plus reign. Soon after, the ECW roster would be divied up among Raw and SmackDown.