Preview:WWE.com Exclusive FreeView: 24-Man Battle Royal - Winner earns an ECW Title Match (6:30 p.m. ET)
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. CT, exclusively on WWE.com, ECW General Manager Armando Estrada has inked a 24-Man Battle Royal involving Superstars from Raw, SmackDown and, of course, the Land of the Extreme. The Battle Royal will be a FreeView for all our fans right here at WWE.com.
The Battle Royal will take place just prior to WrestleMania XXIV going live on pay-per-view, and can be seen exclusively on WWE.com. The winner will earn an ECW Championship Match against Chavo Guerrero later tonight on the Grandest Stage of Them All.
Although the FreeView will launch the twenty-fourth installment of sports-entertainment’s greatest spectacle, it also marks the first time WWE has ever streamed a live match to kick off WrestleMania. And what better way to make history than with a contest of this caliber, with the winner earning an ECW Championship opportunity on PPV later that evening?
Just before the turn of the New Year, the self-proclaimed “Mexican Warrior” declared that 2008 would be his year – a year in which the “Guerrero family” would be made proud by Chavo for capturing World Championship gold. Selecting former ECW Champion CM Punk as his “stepping stone,” Chavo ultimately scored supremacy in ECW with a great deal of assistance from Edge and the Mexican Warrior’s aunt, SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero.
Since that fateful evening, Chavo has successfully defended the gold against the hard-hitting effort of rival CM Punk – by hook or by crook – on a number of close-call encounters. At WrestleMania, the Mexican Warrior will be put to the test against an unknown challenger from any WWE brand – including former World Heavyweight Champion The Great Khali, who Estrada named as the Battle Royal’s first participant.
Since the match's announcement, this over-the-top rope encounter has grown substantially. Rounding out the battle are behemoths including Kane and Mark Henry, plus the likes of Chuck Palumbo and Jamie Noble.
From the largest to most lethal to the most technically gifted, Chavo could be defending the title against any one of 24 top-caliber Superstars looking to make their World Championship dreams come true. Can the ECW Champion fulfill his prophetic claims at the close of 2007, or will one of two dozen Superstars go on to end the reign of the Mexican Warrior?