By Wade Keller, Torch editor

-WWE.com has announced the release of Orlando Jordan. There had plans for him to play a bisexual character, but it was never introduced on television.

-Also at WWE.com today, Vince McMahon spoke publicly about the relaunch of the brand. Highlights:

---"We will bring forward many of the more legendary characters of ECW's past, but it can't be the same. That's pretty much impossible. It's now five years later. A lot of the performers now have five more years under their belt, and the ECW style has taken a great deal out of them. This is something that the ECW audience already realizes. They know that if ECW was still in business today, they would be very different from what they were five years ago."

---It will be an alternative, there's no doubt about that. It won't be shot the same way we shoot SmackDown or Raw. It'll have a different feel. It will be more gritty. There will also be more imagination put into concepts and characters. But at the same time, there will need to be a delicate balance because there are three masters to serve. There's the small, vocal ECW audience. Then there's the SCI FI audience that is accustomed to things more SCI FI. And obviously, you have to also be true to our broader audience in terms of what sports-entertainment is today."

---"Over the last several years, we have been busy re-establishing the concept of ECW without it having to be its own brand. Now, with the success of The Rise and Fall of ECW DVD and the success of last year's One Night Stand pay-per-view, it just seemed right. And it feels like this year's One Night Stand pay-per-view will be a launch to re-establish the brand."

---He concluded: "But at the end of the day, Mr. McMahon is in charge."

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