BREAKING NEWS: Brand Split Returning

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Originally Posted by Mr. JL It's just so fake. Everyone knows that it is the same company, with the same writers and the same head honcho calling the shots. It really makes no difference except the company will now spend a ton of money on making SmackDown live and run more house shows/tours (potentially, depending on fan reaction). If history serves me correct the first brand split brought in significantly lower ratings within weeks of its inception. That was with the inclusion of WWF, WCW and ECW stars all intertwined. Now its just WWE guys with NXT guys, some TNA guys and some indy sauce. Really the entire concept just limits the feuds and matches potential of the company. Fans miss out on seeing different matchups because of a fake imaginary line in the sand. Who knows what kind of chemistry and star building potential those missed matchups could produce for the company. If they were smart they would have already developed a 1 and 1A house show team, yet still keep their main draws wholly available on both Raw and SmackDown. Plus, I think going live on Tuesday is a terrible idea. Way too much wrestling for one fan to take in back to back... especially when you factor in a 3 hour PPV (or Network) on Sunday, 3 hour Raw on Monday and hopefully only a 2 hour SmackDown on Tuesday. 8 hours of wrestling in three days. Nobody has the time to keep up with that besides kids and teenagers. Even so, lets face it. The WWE really does not cater to teenagers anymore with the whole PG aspect.

I feel like this is a very accurate description. Evryone keeps saying there is so much talent that they need more tv time to shine. Well during the original brand split we had legit stars and it ended up not really keeping our interest, plus the two world titles was stupid. As the Macho Man said, the cream rises to the top, so we don't need more tv time for mid carders to get on tv, we need the talent to step up.

Having two shows is fine, but there is no reason for them to be inclusive. We need the writers to figure out long term booking and we need the wrestlers to to find ways to stand out. If you need Smackdown to get better ratings, how about an advertised world title match, how about a title change? Floodig the shows with Nxt and indy guys isn't going to help, writing is what makes it interesting - or wrestlers given green light to do their thing.

I promise this will be a failure. It may have short term gain, running two house shows may be profitable, going live should help but I really dont know how any buzz sustains itself. They need to build stars, not have a bunch of nobodies being nobodies wrestling nobodies.