ECW News and notes:
Our first card is officially released
| | ECW 1: Genesis | Saturday, February 24, 2001 |
| | Main Event |
| | Isaiah 'Thump' Monroe 8-0 vs Dwayne 'The Pain' Alleyne 8-0 for the ECW MW Title |
| | Undercard |
| | Brody Howles 5-0 vs Glenn Pimm 34-12 | Damien Jones 6-0 vs Collins Lundie 12-4 |
| | Nate MacReary 5-0 vs Harvey Loeb 9-6 | Barrett Fforde 7-3 vs Carson Neuwirth 15-13 |
| | Plus 3 exciting preliminary bouts featuring |
| | Wesley Sneep vs French Dancer, Mort Slingsby vs Stan Still, Big Magic vs Blaze Weeks |
It feature a very intriguing main even between two promising young fighters, getting a shot at gold long before they would in one of the other organizations, in what should be a competitive fight. The undercard features a couple of good matchups between top contenders, with the Howles/Pimm tilt of particular interest as it will say a lot about where Howles is at this early stage. The prelims feature our most curious signing as internet street fight sensation Big Magic makes his major promotion debut after winning his first MMA scrap on a small local show in his native Boston. It will remain to be seen if he can "slice" it against trained MMA fighters.
Finances
We lose 8,176 in January, with the bulk of it being to fighter signing bonuses, which leaves us with a balance of 491,824, still very comfortable.