After Wrestlemania will the Raw and Smackdown rosters change?

**The CyNick** · 02-29-2004, 12:37 AM

Smackdown has far more viewers than RAW.

So this line of thinking that "RAW has more viewers, RAW is #1, RAW has all the top stars" is false. Smackdown has about a million more viewers per week than RAW, and Smackdown also has the biggest star in the company right now in Eddie Guerrero.

As for the rosters, Goldberg-Lesnar will be over at Mania cuz Billy is leaving. Taker will still be on SD, so if the fued with Kane continues, Kane will have to move to SD. I haven't heard anything about that, but anything can happen. And the girls fued, would anyone really want to see that continue? It'll be bad at Mania, so why do it again?

I dont like the idea of doing another draft. I mean where would the logic be in that? Vince comes out one day and goes "I'm bored, lets shuffle up the rosters".

They have worked for the past couple of years to build some sort of identity between the two shows, so why kill that? If you shake things up, yeah you'll get some fresh match ups for the next year, but then what do you do for Mania next year when you want to do some interpromotional matches? What are you going to have Lesnar form RAW vs Angle from SD....that'll be new, or maybe HBK from SD vs HHH from RAW.

The better idea is to continue to elevate new talent on each show to create new match ups for this year, and then at Mania next year you can do some interpromotional matches like say Austin-Lesnar or Angle-HHH or whatever.

02-29-2004, 12:37 AM	#9
The CyNick Make the IWC Great Again Posts: 8,922	Smackdown has far more viewers than RAW. So this line of thinking that "RAW has more viewers, RAW is #1, RAW has all the top stars" is false. Smackdown has about a million more viewers per week than RAW, and Smackdown also has the biggest star in the company right now in Eddie Guerrero. As for the rosters, Goldberg-Lesnar will be over at Mania cuz Billy is leaving. Taker will still be on SD, so if the fued with Kane continues, Kane will have to move to SD. I haven't heard anything about that, but anything can happen. And the girls fued, would anyone really want to see that continue? It'll be bad at Mania, so why do it again? I dont like the idea of doing another draft. I mean where would the logic be in that? Vince comes out one day and goes "I'm bored, lets shuffle up the rosters". They have worked for the past couple of years to build some sort of identity between the two shows, so why kill that? If you shake things up, yeah you'll get some fresh match ups for the next year, but then what do you do for Mania next year when you want to do some interpromotional matches? What are you going to have Lesnar form RAW vs Angle from SD....that'll be new, or maybe HBK from SD vs HHH from RAW. The better idea is to continue to elevate new talent on each show to create new match ups for this year, and then at Mania next year you can do some interpromotional matches like say Austin-Lesnar or Angle-HHH or whatever.