My prediciton is that everyone will freak out after the show and say "Raw is stacked! Vince is killing Smackdown!" and the tomorrow night the rest of the draft will happen and things will level out. And of course, those same fans will say Vince was forced to course-correct because of THEIR online griping.
My only hope is that they keep SD geared towards smaller guys who can go. I mean I find Braun entertaining as hell but keep him far away from SD. Really hope Ricochet and Black are put on SD and they turn Black tho
SD was the clear winner in last years shakeup and has been killing RAW this past year. RAW is also losing Brock, Ronda, Kurt, Dean Ambrose, etc. I would expect RAW to come out ahead
Give me this as a core group for SD and I am thrilled DB New Day Finn Ali Almas Ricochet Black KO Miz Becky Asuka Joe would fit in great but that is getting greedy and it looks like he is heading towards a feud with Braun
Either of those could work too or they could just do the right and proper thing and turn KO like he is meant to be This leaves SD pretty fucking stacked while leaving RAW with a ton of talent too
Keep your hopes for RAW tonight low. Not really a spoiler, but will spoil anyway so no one complains. It doesn't involve any of the shake up moves or give away any of the outcomes tonight Spoiler: Kind of Spoiler Apparently a lot of talent is having travel issues getting to Montreal tonight for RAW. The show is being re-written now to deal with the talent who won't make it.
Sasha Banks tweeted something calling everyone marks and the "if you only knew" or something and then made a reference to the shakeup tonight
Blaming travel issues for Vince re writing RAW hours before air as if that’s the reason. That fucker does that every week
Based on social media, seems like everyone was on vacation last week after Smackdown. Also, thought this was a cool pic but I couldn’t identify the top 3 women to the right
Sure, but even if they all got in fine what’s the percentage that they don’t rewrite the script anyways. I say 98% they change the script with everyone in town no problem
Aliyah is one of them... the most center of the three. The other one looks familiar but can't think of the name
My guess the top, far right is Zelina Vega but I still can't tell. Also, who is the one in the hat, 2nd row from the top?
It must be old. It doesn't have Bazler, it still has Alicia Fox, I think. And no Sarah Logan with the rest of Riott Squad.
I think Mandy is 2nd from the right... so that would only leave the last on the right in the back un-named
Thought Mandy was the one left of hat girl (who I also pegged as Liv), makes sense with Sonya right behind her
Early on last year it did seem like Smackdown was being gutted to boost Raw's terrible ratings. I think they ultimately backed off some (kept AJ on Smackdown) and added some more to even it all out. I don't think it matters at all this year because they will probably reset the rosters more before the new contracts kick in.
The War Raiders names changed to The Viking Experience? Boooooooooooooo EDIT: just call them the raiders
Ok I'm glad I'm not crazy, definitely had never heard of the Viking Experience. What a horrendous name. Like why? Call them the Berzerkers then.
I actually missed the first ten minutes. Did they come out and say "Hey watch this terrible shit we do."