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With limited opportunities for the ECW talent to integrate into the RAW and SmackDown! rosters, some talent naturally appeared to be in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Those fears transformed into reality Friday as WWE confirmed that two former ECW stars were dropped.<\/p>\n<p>According to WWE.com, Gregory &#8220;Shane\/Hurricane&#8221; Helms and Paul Burchill have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Helms and current World Champion Chris Jericho recently made headlines for a public intoxication arrest after a &#8220;play fight&#8221; in a taxi cab.  While it is not clear that the arrest played any role whatsoever in his release (especially since Jericho&#8217;s standing is fine), it likely did not help matters for a talent already believed to be on the fringe.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Burchill never seemed to get going in his latest stint on television, and WWE ultimately decided to &#8220;future endeavor&#8221; the wrestler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WWE Releases Two Wrestlers Following End of ECW<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As ECW&#039;s end date approached, wrestlers began to express fear about impending roster cuts. 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