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Originally Posted by Noid
Don't let CyNick see this. He has more of an understanding about the business than The Undertaker, after all.
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What territory did Undertaker book?
The concept of the brand extension is fine. in theory But the reality is it doesnt work. Monday Night is the flagship, always will be. If they did a real brand extension; say Cena heads up the Monday tour and Reigns headlines the Tuesday tour. If Cena goes down with an injury that puts him on the shelf for 12 months, they will take the biggest star from Tuesday and put him on Monday to fill the gap. The tours will always be booked with the A town and B town mentality. You cant have a bunch of A towns booked, then your top guy goes down, and say "oh well, there's a brand extension, we cant bring talent over from the B tour to fill in". But then the minute you do that, you make the brand extension meaningless.
On top of that, any stars that get over on Smackdown to any major degree will be bumped up to RAW. And this will be at the talent's request, because those pay days from the shows in Chicago are much better than the paydays in Peoria. you cant blame the WWE for doing this, because Monday is the A show, Monday brings you in the big TV revenue, so you have to cater to that show. Again, it would just make SD look like NXT.