The Wrestling Post truly captured Vince McMahon when they included the above “motivational poster” in a blog entry last year. Mr. McMahon’s bulging ego has never been more obvious than it was during the Backlash pay-per-view on Sunday night.

For those who missed it, during a three-on-one handicap match (Umaga, Vince McMahon, and Shane McMahon versus Bobby Lashley), Vince pinned Lashley to become ECW World Champion. Excuse me while I throw up in my mouth.

Some wrestling fans thought that simply resurrecting ECW as a WWE brand was the beginning of the end for Extreme Championship Wrestling. Others believe the downward spiral coincided with Paul Heyman’s dismissal, or the drug-related arrest of Sabu and RVD in 2006. Either way, the fate of ECW was sealed on Sunday, and it wasn’t pretty.

Some other reactions from around the blogosphere:

Matt at WWE Wrestling News found his worst fear realized: “That fear of course is more McMahon on TV, and that is what we are going to get for sometime now.”

Saim Baig of WWE Fanatics regards ECW as “Vince’s plaything, to be buried, in exactly the same way that WCW was, and that Eric Bischoff was. Mission accomplished. God knows where they go from here.”

The blogger at Conservative Mind is even more blunt (and entertaining) in his analysis: “McMoron continues to urinate on the legacy of Paul Heyman, Taz, Shane Douglas, Rob Van Dam, Terry Funk, Sabu and company.”

A few weeks ago, following the April 10th episode of ECW on Sci-Fi, blogger Glen Boyd wrote, “the burial of the once proud Extreme Championship Wrestling franchise is now complete.” If that wasn’t true then, it certainly is now.

WTF, Vince? WTF?