As reported earlier, the brand split between WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown is deemed as “essentially done.” This is despite the fact that WWE holds a brad extension draft every year and chooses separate players for the two main roster brands with the broadcaster officials involved in the process. Due to a lack of roster depth, the superstars, nowadays have to travel to each other’s shows.
That tradition will continue on this week’s episode of WWE Smackdown as PWInsider reports that two top Raw Superstars will be invading the show. Two former World Champions the red brand, namely AJ Styles and Finn Balor will reportedly be there at the upcoming tapings of the blue brand in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this Friday.
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It is unknown, at this point whether or not these two superstars are going to appear on WWE Smackdown on FOX broadcast on television, or if they will only be used in dark segments. Last week, Styles and The Miz were in attendance at the blue brand episode and they featured in the dark main event match.
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Balor and Styles are likely to compete in dark matches on WWE Smackdown
As for Balor and Styles, they have nothing to do with anybody on the WWE Smackdown roster in terms of current storylines and it will be interesting to see how they will be utilized on the show. The two men were part of a babyface group who had been going up against Edge’s Judgment Day faction, which also resulted in a tag team match at the WWE Hell In A Cell premium live event.
But things changed since then as Balor eventually joined the Judgment Day and then teamed with Rhea Ripley, and Damian Priest to turn on Edge, kicking him out of the group. This was reportedly done as WWE is interested in routing the faction into a supernatural route which the WWE Hall of Famer wasn’t pushing for.
As much as these kinds of invasions are happening on a regular basis, the chatters of a brand dissolve get increased on social media. However, WWE won’t officially be ending it, anytime soon given that both the shows are exclusive properties of different networks. Oddly enough, WWE has already unified their top world titles and world tag team titles despite WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown being two different shows.
