*RUMBLE SPOILERS* Should the winner of the Rumble switch brands?

**Head** · 01-27-2004, 05:30 PM

*ROYAL RUMBLE SPOILERS*

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Seeing as how Benoit is now switching to Raw it looks like, it wouldn't suprise me if the WWE started doing this every year with the Rumble winner. I'm really split on what I think about this.

On one hand, this could be a very nice way to mix it up a little bit, and could make for fresher feuds, with the potential for anybody being able to feud with anybody.

On the other hand, it would really kill the whole classic title chase against the GM thing that Austin, The Rock, Brock Lesner, and others did, and that Corkscrewed meantioned in his topic. A big thing for Wrestlemania main events, to me at least, is that they usually are a feud that has been building up for longer than a few months. Doing this would also make it manditory for whoever the WWE wants to wrestle for the title in the main event of Wrestlemania to switch brands.

There is also the whole issue with creating an imbalance between the brands if a main eventer switches to the other brand. For example, if Raw wins two years in a row, Smackdown would be 2 main eventers short. And I really don't like the whole trade idea much either, as since I see any feuding/on air negotiating between the two brands as taking away from their distinct idenities.

Thoughts, ideas, comments?

01-27-2004, 05:30 PM	#1
Head Shocker Posts: 3,124	RUMBLE SPOILERS Should the winner of the Rumble switch brands? ROYAL RUMBLE SPOILERS t? Seeing as how Benoit is now switching to Raw it looks like, it wouldn't suprise me if the WWE started doing this every year with the Rumble winner. I'm really split on what I think about this. On one hand, this could be a very nice way to mix it up a little bit, and could make for fresher feuds, with the potential for anybody being able to feud with anybody. On the other hand, it would really kill the whole classic title chase against the GM thing that Austin, The Rock, Brock Lesner, and others did, and that Corkscrewed meantioned in his topic. A big thing for Wrestlemania main events, to me at least, is that they usually are a feud that has been building up for longer than a few months. Doing this would also make it manditory for whoever the WWE wants to wrestle for the title in the main event of Wrestlemania to switch brands. There is also the whole issue with creating an imbalance between the brands if a main eventer switches to the other brand. For example, if Raw wins two years in a row, Smackdown would be 2 main eventers short. And I really don't like the whole trade idea much either, as since I see any feuding/on air negotiating between the two brands as taking away from their distinct idenities. Thoughts, ideas, comments? Last edited by Head; 01-27-2004 at 06:04 PM.