Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Tuesday, July 4, 2006 at 6:31 PM EST

Although this isn't a huge surprise, WWE officials were said to be very upset about Rob Van Dam and Sabu being arrested over the weekend. This really couldn't have come at a worse time for WWE seeing how they finally put the title on Rob Van Dam and how both RVD and Sabu were huge parts of the new ECW brand. With Kurt Angle on the way out for an extended hiatus, it puts the ECW brand in very bad shape.

According to reports, WWE is already trying to formulate plans for the direction of ECW in the coming weeks seeing as RVD and Sabu have put them in a very bad position in the public eye. To make matters worse, the ECW brand was something that was really put over at WWE's recent conference call in front of stockholders so having a champion and another star getting busted for possession of drugs and substances doesn't look very good.

Backstage meetings were scheduled to take place tonight at the ECW TV taping for Sci Fi in Philadelphia, PA at the Wachovia Center. As mentioned earlier, this taping was being treated as one of the most important dates for ECW yet seeing as this will be the first TV taping without a SmackDown taping taking place before it and in front of crowd paying for ECW only, not SmackDown and ECW.

Source: Dave Scherer @ PWInsider.com