[Heyman]

Originally Posted by The CyNick Heyman, you seem to miss the point that Smackdown draws as many if not more viewers than RAW on a regualar basis. And as Ive said a million times, if you do anything to make SD look like a "Sunday Night Heat" type show, they will draw SNH ratings, which aren't great.

Even now? Smackdown....in it's current state....is drawing MORE than Raw? As far as SNH Heat ratings are concerned, I disagree. One - we'd still see the two main-eventers of the company....also getting air time on Smackdown. Two - Because people would be 'elevated' to Raw, and 'put down' to Smackdown......those people who were formerly on Raw would be seen as 'big names' (What I'm saying probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense.......but re-read my original post to closely 'know' about my idea).

Even though its true that RAW will always get special treatment because its been around longer, and mostly because HHH is on that show, SD still gets their own PPVs, their own house shows and they get half billing on the major PPVs. So even though RAW may seem like #1, SD isn't treated as a minor league organization like you are suggesting. They may get treated as the #2 group, but its not to the point that people see it as the minor leagues compared to RAW.

Even with a unified roster, the company can still hold 12 PPV's per year. With the idea that I proposed, there can still be a definitive "Smackdown" and "Raw" House Show roster.

If more people 'tune' into Smackdown (I suspect it has more to do with the fact that Smackdown is on UPN......not due to having a 'higher quality' product), then why not implement my idea.......but do the inverse? Have your top 12 main-eventers of the company...and 2 women wrestling on Smackdown.......while everyone else is on Raw. Every two months, two new guys and 1 new chick get "elevated" to Smackdown, while 2 guys and 1 chick go to Raw. The top two main-eventers of the company still appear on both shows.

Once they do that (turn it into a B show), then people will turn away from SD in droves and ratings will go down to similar levels to Heat and Velocity. At that point UPN is going to call Vince and say "what the hell is going on?" and will likely cancel SD. Which would cost Vince a lot of money.

That is true. That's why I think it's a good idea to have the top two main-eventers of the company appear on both shows (according to the idea that I proposed). I don't know for a fact if the two main-eventers alone could captivate the fans' interest (and make them watch/attend the shows), but I think that it would. Furthermore - I also suggest having more "PPV quality" matches on this show (since most of the PPV matches would go the 'A' show).

Most people on the 'net see Bradshaw as a joke of a champion, but I think he would have got the title even if he was on RAW. You have to understand Vince sees JBL as an extension of himself, so he was going to get pushed to the moon (especially after the Germany incident) regardless of what show he's on.

I'll have to disagree on that. With HBK, Triple H, Orton, Jericho, etc. ALL on Raw.....I highly doubt that Bradshaw would have gotten the title. Vince may see JBL as an extension of himself, but still..... The only reason why Bradshaw was pushed as a main-eventer on Smackdown, was because Smackdown needed new stars quickly (since Show, Angle, and Lesnar were all out of action). Unless Raw lost Triple H, HBK, and Benoit for a long period of time, I find it hard to believe that JBL would've won the title there.

As for the Diva Search deal, that was originally booked for SD, but they got flack from UPN saying that it was too close to America's Top Model and would create confusion. As a result the concept was moved over to RAW.

I didn't realize that. That clears things up a bit.

But the main point is that you cant just tell the fans "this is a B show", because at that point they will stop watching. And since SD does as good, if not better than RAW, why would they even consider doing that?

Why "tell" the fans that it's a 'B' show?.......

Another thing is that any talk of the brand extension ending is very unlikely to happen. Both RAW and SD are drawing decent numbers on TV, they have added extra single brand shows and they have all done reasonably well. And finally, because of the brand extension they have been able to massively increase their international business, which has remained relatively strong while the live event business in NA has been soft. So there are NO plans to get rid of it.

I guess so. I just wish that Management had equal respect for Raw and Smackdown. It's just frustrating to "know" (if past history is on any indication), that the top guys from Smackdown will probably head to Raw anyways.......(once Smackdown picks up in quality again).



WWE circa 2005.


WWE Managment: Hey Vince - I got an idea!

Vince: What is it?

WWE Managment: Let's send Cena over to Raw. We'll compensate Smackdown's loss of Cena, with Val Venis.

Vince: Sounds like a plan.