WWE News: Stone Cold talks about the brand split in WWE

Jun 1, 2016 at 11:10 AM

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WWE News: Stone Cold talks about the brand split in WWE

The much-anticipated brand split is happening indeed and WWE has managed to top the trend once again with the blockbuster announcement, last week, that said that starting from July 19th WWE Raw and Smackdown will be treated as separate brands. They will head back to their original formats with separate rosters and championships. It will also start airing live on Tuesday nights from the day mentioned.
Now, wrestingINC.com reports that WWE Hall of Famer, Stone Cold Steve Austin had commented on the brands split on the 328th episode of his podcast “The Steve Austin Show”, recently. He commented on some of the burning questions that people are asking as a result of the trending brand split.
When asked about the reason of the brand split he said, “I’m quoting Vince from the SmackDown stuff. It says, ‘WWE’s flagship programs will both leverage the incredible depth of our talent roster, distinct storylines, and the unpredictable nature of live TV.’ Okay, let’s go back to the ‘incredible depth’ of the talent roster. I don’t see ‘incredible depth’. It is a lot of people, and talented people, but I don’t think you can say your roster’s necessarily deep. But you do have a lot of people they’re going to try out. Are they going to make the all-star team by getting over or are they just going to be bodies that go out there and occupy time on the television screen?”

Talking about Smackdown’s popularity and if has the potential to get even hotter he said, “The SmackDown roster can’t be the minor leagues. It can’t be the NXT of the big leagues. SmackDown could become the hotter show just because it takes less time to watch it, and, man, you know everybody has attention deficit these days, so I don’t know. To me, it could have the makings of making SmackDown the hotter, more popular show.”
Finally, when asked about bringing back two separate championships in two different brands, he ended with, “I absolutely think that the world champion ought to travel back and forth. If the champion is on RAW, Reigns, who has the championship, goes to SmackDown, to me, that in and of itself creates something that I want to see.”

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