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Which major wrestling promotion purchased ECW's assets in 2001?

  • World Championship Wrestling

  • All Elite Wrestling

  • New Japan Pro-Wrestling

  • World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

Answer

World Wrestling Entertainment, (WWE) purchased the assets of ECW in 2001 after the promotion folded due to its inability to secure a new national television contract. WWE later relaunched the ECW brand in 2006 as a third brand alongside Raw and SmackDown.
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