There are discussions about a possible Brand Split within WWE

[Buggsy Mogues]

SD is not gonna pop off.

Exactly. It's too late for SD now. People have conditioned to treat it as a WCW Saturday Night level show, ever since Cener won the World Title and immediately switched over to RAW back in 05.

 

[malbaker86]

Awful idea, because it's one they only stuck with for the first two years or so and Raw was always the favored brand. The idea of two world champs is horrible. If they do this, the WWE title needs to be above everything and then the US & IC belts become brand-exclusive. Just like it was for the first few weeks they had the split.

Also, make the tag belts exclusive to one brand and something like the Divas or a Cruiserweight title exclusive to the other.

would be nice if they had a women's tag team belt but lord knows they would job that belt out even more than they do the IC and US title's

 

[TheGodling]

Solid idea. Or maybe they can start booking matches better, build some new stars, reduce opening promo's and improve the actual tv product instead.

 

[Cuckkleberry Finn]

whats the point? so you can put all the non pushed, mismanaged, good in ring talent to the B show and let them headline there instead of making them matter on the main show?

pass.

 

[RammerJammer]

whats the point? so you can put all the non pushed, mismanaged, good in ring talent to the B show and let them headline there instead of making them matter on the main show?

pass.

Unfortunately that's the only way guys like Cesaro and Bray will ever become World Champions. And lets not act like SmackDown never Main Evented PPVs

 

[Kang Deezy]

This is a bad idea. For either show to work, you need a combination of the two. And if people want SD to be treated equally to Raw, it'd be backwards to prioritize the thing that draws less on SD.

And yeah, if there was a split, Raw would def. need to be scaled back to two hours. The 10-11 hour can obviously go.

Not really feeling that this current roster is so deep they need a split tho'...

my vision doesn't have Smackdown without star power though... Ultimately I'd love Owens over there with people like styles, Jericho, cesaro but I doubt they'd have Owens on Smackdown

 

[Vinny Lupton]

save our streets, SD

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Excuse the Meltzing but

lol at Meltzing being a verb. "He, she, or it, Meltzs."

 

[Vinny Lupton]

If it puts some life into Smackdown and halves the amount of shows talent has to work then go for it.

If they're going to treat it like they did during its latter years then

alot of companies have multiple sales teams competing against each other. Competition breeds innovation and leads to more money for everyone. Lack of competition gives us the crap we've had for the past 10+ years. Look at how much money EVERYONE was making during the Monday Night Wars. If they had any grapefruits, they'd do a legit brand/roster/staff split and have them working to outdo each other

also PW Insider is fukking garbage and if you really read the article with your "critical thinking" cap on, they have said nothing and offer no real proof. Pure speculation. Somehow Meltz will get blamed for this tho

 

[sid the kid]

@sid the kid Getting ratings in the 1's doesn't mean you only had a million viewers. Know what you're talking about before you start questioning someone else's knowledge.



When they reached their lowest point of the ratings at 2.21, they still averaged over 3 million viewers. A lot of factors go into calculating the ratings.


Correction: 2.16 was the lowest that they reached and they averaged 2.9 million viewers. Which means that getting 1.9 or 1.8 isn't impossible. If they started averaging 1 million viewers they would be putting up below 0.9 ratings which is not what anyone here suggested had a chance of happening.

No fukking shyt you idiot.

The rating doesn't matter to USA anyways, only the viewership. That was my entire fukking point, but you were too stupid to comprehend it.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Honestly, when they stopped emphasizing the brand split, the product slowly got worse. Never understood the hate behind having separate rosters (other than brand-exclusive pay-per-views).

The only reason why I think they shouldn't do it is because of the writing, which is so lazy and inept they'll have no idea what to do with a split roster.

 

[mrken12]

@sid the kid You don't know what you're talking about and you were wrong. Let it go.

 

[RammerJammer]

Honestly, when they stopped emphasizing the brand split, the product slowly got worse. Never understood the hate behind having separate rosters (other than brand-exclusive pay-per-views).

The only reason why I think they shouldn't do it is because of the writing, which is so lazy and inept they'll have no idea what to do with a split roster.

Yeah, writing is another thing. You know how they started having rematches week after week in the brand split era?

 

[Playaz Eyez]

No way in hell should they do a brand split when they can't even develop characters enough to be worth that time. The product is already watered down enough, but you wanna water them down even more??? All we'd get is the equivalent of Heidenreich vs Orlando Jordan, Mordecai vs Scottie 2 Hottie and Rico & Charlie Haas vs Billy Gunn and Hardcore Holly.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Solid idea. Or maybe they can start booking matches better, build some new stars, reduce opening promo's and improve the actual tv product instead.

Makes too much sense never gonna happen

 

[sid the kid]

@sid the kid You don't know what you're talking about and you were wrong. Let it go.

USA only cares about how many millions of viewers are watching (and the demos).

If ratings get into the 1's, they won't have a choice but to ditch the 3 hours.

Thus making this post stupid.

Do you not know how ratings work or something?