Could be making room for a certain American Dragon...?
I say Helms wins. Put Burchill on Smackdown, or get rid of him.
SD already has Ziggler, McEntyre & Escobar
Raw already has Swagger, Masters, Carlito, Seamus & Miz
Mid-card heels is one area where WWE have more than enough development work on their hands as it is. Doesn't look good for Burchill.
To be honest, if he can somehow jump shows and turn face he'll become a much needed asset atm. (Imagine him as a Benoit-like face vs Kane or doing a revenge beatdown on McEntyre or sumthin...?)
His release would suck... They've handled him poorly since he came back and I'd hoped that they'd take him more seriously since doing some damn fine work in his time on ECW.
They missed the boat on him really... He get's decent heat given what he get's to work with, decent on the mic and a beast in the ring. They should have done a long term protege storyline with him & Regal... Everyone hates Regal so a split program would in all possibility have eventually elevated him to the upper card as a face and then could have continued his climb from there and cemented it all with an eventual heel turn somewhere down the line.