Why weren't the ECW titles ever defended/seen in..

this I dont know.Im thinking its one of two things though....

1)Vince wasnt allowed use the name ECW hence the us of The Alliance for both squads.maybe the belts were tied up in this legal issue too?wouldnt make much sense to have the belts if ECW couldnt be mentioned onscreen or whatever the restriction was.

2)Vince just used the WCW belts and decided that the ECW belts would have been too much.

wcw took precedence, ecw was their weak lackies. which is hilarious, considering the ecw vs wcw rivalry that existed for years and legit hate from the producers of either.

Who were the holders of the ECW belts at the time?

I'm pretty confident they didn't want to overkill the whole thing.

Which is silly because they ended up overkilling the whole thing anyway.

They had all the current wcw title holders under contract....duh

Good Point

As others have said it would have been way too many titles plus Rhyno would have andomly shown up with the titles, also they really didnt have any tag teams from ECW besides the dudleys who hadn't been in ECW since 1999. Also that would have ment 3 world titles 3 mid card titles and 3 tag titles

There actually was a legal issue at the time with ECW intellectual property, though I don't recall if it would have precluded them from promoting active ECW title holders. As I recall, WWE needed special permission and/or used some sort of legal loophole with Paul Heyman's assistance to use the logo on their shows and merchandise.

Remember, WWE bought WCW, but ECW basically drowned in debt until it ceased to exist. WWE didn't own any ECW assets until years later. In the meantime, ECW's intellectual property and assets (tape library being the biggest) were being fought over in bankruptcy court by numerous creditors that ECW owed money to when it folded. WWE was one of those owed money, so they might have struck a deal to lower their own claim in exchange for temporary use of the logo.

Actually, I think Acclaim might have originally been awarded the ECW tape library by courts due to money owed them from the ECW video games, and later, WWE bought it from them. I'm going from memory and haven't Googled any of this to check, so if I'm remembering wrong I apologize.

Pretty sure Rhyno was under contract.

there 100% was a legal issue man.they had been using the logo on TV for months but had to stop sometime in the summer.thats why the faction was called "The Alliance"

as Johnny says Heyman helped them out but there defo was an issue.