The end of the Brand split - a preview?

[Legion]

So from Raw last night which featured inter-brand matches and the previews for ECW and SmackDown showing that we are goign to get the same, seems to me we're getting a preview of what the show would be like if the brand split actually did end.

Personally i think an end to the split would lead to alot of cuts (and lets face it, it wouldn'y be Cena or Batista that got cut) and a relatively over repetitive show.

However, Raw felt good watching last night and seeing some of those guys on the show and knowing ECW and SD are going to be the same has me a little more excited than usual.

Maybe that's just Big 4 ppv run up (and that is without a doubt the idea behind having the shows run like this) but i was wondering what the rest of you felt about a smaller roster and the way this weeks booking is working, or indeed not working, for you?

[Hiroshi Hase]

I don't see it as anything special, they did the same thing in 2005 and last year as well prior to Survivor Series.

[britishbulldog]

I like the idea of a smaller roster. Trim the crap. But as I said in another thread. I would bet there is more money available with 3 brands. So untill that changes it will stay status-quoe

[Legion]

Well yeah, money has to be an issue, but i was just wondering if people preferred the smaller roster, maybe i should have made it a poll, but we seem to have one for ending it at least

[Cactus Jack]

I'm wondering if, and hoping that, this is the end of the brand split.

[EJS]

This happens every November. Survivor Series is the death of the Brand Extension. Then it goes back to more normalcy until a Rumble winner is crowned.

[Mozenrath]

I like the brand split. Ending it would make the wrestlers have a harder schedule, something we as the IWC OFTEN bitch about, and the main event positions would move bout as often as WCW's did, and dozens of wrestlers would be fired.

No.
No.
No.
No.

Oh, and, no.

[BrianZane]

I think they should end the brand split where they treat each show like it's own promotion, but keep the same kind of talent format where some wrestlers are more likely to show up on one date than another. It would basically be what WWE was like beforehand.

[wrestlecrapcrap]

I think last night was a combination of them hyping Survivor Series and deciding that the injuries have meant they can't produce consistantly entertaining shows unless they blur the extention lines a little bit. I think they know that filling the show with McMahon/HHH just won't wash anymore and are doing their best to rectify it. They deserve credit IMO.

[Loki]

It's not gonna happen.

We'd have the same stuff we have now. Shuffling the deck won't change the cards or the game.

[Kenny Brockelstein]

legion said:

So from Raw last night which featured inter-brand matches and the previews for ECW and SmackDown showing that we are goign to get the same, seems to me we're getting a preview of what the show would be like if the brand split actually did end.

Personally i think an end to the split would lead to alot of cuts (and lets face it, it would be Cena or Batista that got cut) and a relatively over repetitive show.

However, Raw felt good watching last night and seeing some of those guys on the show and knowing ECW and SD are going to be the same has me a little more excited than usual.

Maybe that's just Big 4 ppv run up (and that is without a doubt the idea behind having the shows run like this) but i was wondering what the rest of you felt about a smaller roster and the way this weeks booking is working, or indeed not working, for you?

Hang on, you think either Batista or Cena would be fired if the brand split ended?

[Tapout]

It's been discussed.

This is just for SurSer.

Brand split is not ending (other than possibly folding ECW into SD). Too much money at stake.

[Celgress]

Please God let the Brand Split end. It has been helping to water down and ruin the WWE over the last few years.

[Jared Has Been Enlightened :)]

It's horrible. It's given us a stale main event scene and way too much garbage aka "time filler". Still, the WWE writers are so horrible and Vince is so afraid of trying anything that isn't completely predictable, that you could give them a prime Stone Cold, Rock, Hogan, Savage, Flair, Sting, Taker, and Hitman all on one roster and they'd still manage to put on forgettable, uneventful shows.

TNA is where it's at. Better wrestling, a better roster than any single WWE brand, and they have actual storylines, something the WWE hasn't had since 2002.