It's official: WCW sold to Fusient Ventures
. Eric Bischoff once again has his hold on WCW.

It's too soon to play guessing games as to what'll happen; many have theorized that he'd bring Hulk Hogan and much of the Old Guard back - but I don't think Fusient would agree to making the same mistakes as were made in the past.

Let's see if "Unca Eric" can make things right, or just continue the descent of the promotion.

The Hart family today. An article from a Canadian newspaper in Calgary. Sad to hear how Owen Hart's tragic death has led to the family breaking apart.

As I said yesterday, I'll see Guilty as Charged on video eventually, but I read the write-up on it. From what I read, was it full of surprises? Yes.

Will any of those surprises help the company overall? No.

I'm pulling a different view from that of Rick Scaia of Online Onslaught fame. As I pointed out yesterday, the promotion is far behind on paying workers. They've lost promotional markets, so the money coming in will be lower.

Rob Van Dam and Chris Chetti coming back are cool from a fan viewpoint... but they also mean two more paychecks that'll be behind. Will the two bring in enough extra revenue to fix that? In a perfect world, maybe... but this isn't a perfect world.

Add to that Rhino winning the World title... here's a typical Rhino match: his opponent outwrestles him, showing tremendous heart and skill. He no-sells everything. He gores (spears) them. Pin. Win. Match over.

If that isn't more dull than the typical Goldberg squash, then I don't know what is.

So, Guilty as Charged this year should have a new name: Business Bad As Usual.

I won't see ECW Guilty As Charged tonight (I have to get up very early for my return to work), but I'm very curious what Paul Heyman will give as the "Major surprise" he's been hinting at for the show.

Let's face it: ECW is in desperate need of something to save them right now. With the MSG Network dropping them, the promotion has lost their largest market in New York. Paychecks are intensely late. They made Rhino the TV Champ. All things that spell major trouble.

(OK, Rhino isn't a major problem; I just get bored by him. I find him one-dimensional as a wrestler, even less for personality.)

I'm just hoping that tomorrow we'll all be talking of amazing news in ECW-land, because we need an option to the bland product WCW gives us, and the now-less interesting WWF one.