8. Kane vs. Chavo Guerrero - ECW Title (WrestleMania 24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWQr3CSaY0 The first and only time the ECW Championship was defended at WrestleMania was a joke. Kane won a 24-man battle royal at WrestleMania XXIV to win a title opportunity, and then sprung up behind champ Chavo Guerrero, hitting a chokeslam to end Chavos two-month reign. Sure, it was a WrestleMania moment, but after Joey Styles and Tazz talked about how great it was to see the title defended at WWEs signature event, an 11-second match really showed just how little WWE brass thought of its red-headed stepchild of a brand. Less than two years later, ECW was unceremoniously dumped in favor of NXT (the goofy pseudo-reality show competition, not the full-fledged minor league promotion). There still are some fans who will chant ECW! at WWE events, but it looks like WWE has squeezed all the blood it can from that stone.
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