ECW = lame programming
ECW, Extreme Championship Wrestling, is one of the more ill suited bits of programming on SciFi lately. It ranks right up there with John Edwards' lame show where he tried to convince folks that he could speak with the dead, and is probably only slightly worse than Ghosthunters.
I've always considered science fiction to be generally targeted at a more intelligent audience than other fare, though this tends to be more the case in printed works rather than what makes it into theaters or onto television. Wrestling, to me, has always seemed to be targeted at the opposite extreme, and how it has managed to find a home on the SciFi network continues to elude me.
Lets ignore the fact for a moment that the main attraction of such a show is to watch two large men pummel each other into unconsciousness. While this could be considered Fiction of a sort, since both men are trained athletes and aren't inflicting nearly the amount of damage they would have the viewers believe, and you could also consider the anatomical knowledge required to inflict punishment without permanent injury or the physics required to propel a body off the ropes at an opponent to knock him out of the ring to be Science, neither of these rises to a level worthy enough to be considered science fiction.
Now, if we could get the programming directors from the SciFi channel and stick them in the ring with a few of these guys, that just might be some quality entertainment that I could enjoy...