www.wrestlingnewsdesk.com can EXCLUSIVELY confirm this evening that ECW lead writer David Lagana has been released by World Wrestling Entertainment. Details are not known as to what, if any specific reason was the cause for the dismissal, but the terrible ratings for ECW cannot have helped his situation. Lagana assumed the position as Lead Writer of the show after former ECW owner and legendary creative force in professional wrestling Paul Heyman had a major falling out with The McMahons after the December To Dismember pay per view in December, 2006. Lagana, ironically, was named Lead Writer of the Smackdown television show in 2003 when then-lead writer Heyman and Vince McMahon had one of their many fallings out.

 

Lagana, like most people within WWE, had both his friends and his enemies, but he was always seen as a better assistant to someone like Heyman or Dusty Rhodes, who for now will be the Lead Writer for ECW.

 

He was seen as more of an "Internet Expert" than a writer/producer of wrestlers, although his advocates will point out he was one of the people responsible for some of John Cena's early heel work against The Undertaker.

 

But the ECW brand has been a miserable failure without Heyman, and Lagana inherited a brand that was clearly the bastard child of WWE. While Heyman was combative and defensive about the brand's positioning, many feel that Lagana simply tried to get by with the McMahons.

 

To read more about WWE's dismantling of the ECW brand, and Paul Heyman's falling out with The McMahons, click here: http://www.wrestlingnewsdesk.com/WND/the_news/wrestling/wwe_continues_its_dismantling_of_the_ecw_brand_20071015262.htm

 

To read about Rob Van Dam's brutally honest comments on Vince McMahon's handling of ECW, click here:

http://www.wrestlingnewsdesk.com/WND/the_news/mixed_martial_arts/rob_van_dam_offers_a_first_hand_account_of_paul_heyman_leaving_wwe_20080123642.htm