Christian beats Tommy Dreamer to become ECW champion

The birthplace of ECW birthed a new title reign for Christian as he beat Tommy Dreamer with the killswitch finisher to become the new ECW champion at the WWE Night of Champions PPV. The match featured nine minutes of back and forth action between the babyfaces to only a moderate crowd response.

Despite the Philadelphia setting, WWE fans supported the non-ECW original Christian over ECW original Dreamer in the contest. With the original ECW fanbase long since drifted away and Tommy Dreamer's comeback storyline played out, it made little sense to keep the belt on Dreamer.

While Dreamer should maintain a role of some kind on the ECW brand, expect Christian to continue as its flagship wrestler for the foreseeable future. With Jack Swagger and his compatriots gone, there just isn't anyone else left who is worthy yet of the title belt.

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Christian defeats Jack Swagger for ECW championship

Christian defeated Jack Swagger to win the ECW championship in the opening match of the WWE Backlash PPV. Christian dodged out of the way of a Swagger charge, allowing Swagger to hit an exposed turnbuckle. Christian then hit his unprettier, renamed the killswitch, for the title pinfall.

The end sequence essentially flipped Swagger's original title win on its head as Swagger used an exposed turnbuckle to help defeat Matt Hardy for the belt in the first place. Despite fed concerns of the past, the Christian/Swagger match should solidify Swagger's place as a legitimate wrestler on live television.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Jack Swagger gain the ECW title back in a subsequent rematch but otherwise Christian doesn't have a long lineup of potential challengers. Only Mark Henry, Vladimir Kozlov and the waiting for retirement Tommy Dreamer would seem viable contenders. At any rate, the title win is the biggest for Christian as a WWE wrestler.

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