The end of the brand extension would look like this

[Jon22]

Batista
Chris Jericho
Jon Cena
JBL
Kane
Randy Orton
Ray Mysterio
Shawn Micheals
Edge
Big Show
Jeff Hardy
Triple H
Undertaker
Mr. Kennedy
Christan
C.M. Punk
Carlito
Hurricane
Matt Hardy
MVP
Regal
Santino
Chavo
Miz
Morrison


Ladies now
Beth Phoenix
Gail Kim
Mickie James
Melina
maybe kelly kelly

commentators
Jim Ross
Jerry Lawler


Just the say the rest were released. TNA would have a great batch of young talent to choose from. This would be a new era for some great wrestling by both companies.

[sportznut02]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

i`d love to see the E go back to being one roster/brand. I never have liked having different brands. Hopefully someday that will happen

I agree both companies would greatly benefit from this

[Sanchez_Mareno]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

Highly doubt its coming anytime soon

[Porschebenz2001]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

i`d love to see the E go back to being one roster/brand. I never have liked having different brands. Hopefully someday that will happen

I agree both companies would greatly benefit from this

How would the WWE benefit from dumping all of their young talent? Lol

[Hooe]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

I don't see why the 'E would potentially hand TNA half of its roster. The brand extension doesn't need to end, IMO; I would like to see the two top World titles unified, however.

[TimmeH]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

I think some of the young guys would stick around, and guys like Helms, Carlito, & Chavo would be gone.

To be honest, I don't know how far-fetched the brands coming together really is. The brands are becoming more and more mixed. They've been teasing the possibility of unifying the tag titles as of late. Maryse attacked Melina this past week on Raw, I don't know if it continued on SD, but there you have a possible Women's Unification match. You have the world title picture mingled with a Smackdown guy holding the Raw title and Raw guy contending for the Smackdown title.

Plus there's the dwindling economy. There have been rumors of MyNetworkTV being on it's last legs. Rumors are if that would happen, Smackdown would just move to WGN, but I dunno if I fully believe that. Look at the PPV numbers for the last quarter, and they're WAY down. I'm assuming the E isn't doing nearly as well financially right now as they were a year or two ago...so what's saying it's financially wise to have two seperate TV tapings and tours going on at all times?


I'm not saying it's gonna happen. But with the current state of the economy, I wouldn't be surprised if the brands were to come together or if the number of PPVs get cut down a bit. Either would be beneficial.

[Jon22]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

How would the WWE benefit from dumping all of their young talent? Lol

Some of the talent WWE has on tv would not be on tv if were the WCW vs WWF days. Some wrestlers need to hone on to a character before they reach the big leagues.

Because they are young that is why they should develop more somewhere like TNA. We all know that WWE is the top and most wrestlers want to end up there.

[sportznut02]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

How would the WWE benefit from dumping all of their young talent? Lol

Who said all the young talent had to be dumped? There are plenty of mid-low card guys who could be let go. Such as JBL, Mark Henry, R Truth etc....... There are younger guys that could be let go that would not be a loss.

Just think it would be a product to watch if they went to one brand

[DonkeyJote]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

I think some of the young guys would stick around, and guys like Helms, Carlito, & Chavo would be gone.

To be honest, I don't know how far-fetched the brands coming together really is. The brands are becoming more and more mixed. They've been teasing the possibility of unifying the tag titles as of late. Maryse attacked Melina this past week on Raw, I don't know if it continued on SD, but there you have a possible Women's Unification match. You have the world title picture mingled with a Smackdown guy holding the Raw title and Raw guy contending for the Smackdown title.

Plus there's the dwindling economy. There have been rumors of MyNetworkTV being on it's last legs. Rumors are if that would happen, Smackdown would just move to WGN, but I dunno if I fully believe that. Look at the PPV numbers for the last quarter, and they're WAY down. I'm assuming the E isn't doing nearly as well financially right now as they were a year or two ago...so what's saying it's financially wise to have two seperate TV tapings and tours going on at all times?


I'm not saying it's gonna happen. But with the current state of the economy, I wouldn't be surprised if the brands were to come together or if the number of PPVs get cut down a bit. Either would be beneficial.

They've been becoming more mixed for the build up to mania. I doubt it's permenant.

I don't like the idea of bringing the brands back together - it's hard enough for talent to get chances as it is. Look at Jack Swagger. You don't even have him on your list. A guy like him, or CM Punk would never get a chance without multiple brands.

Plus the E would lose a lot of money, because they would only be doing half the house shows they do now.

[Jon22]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

They've been becoming more mixed for the build up to mania. I doubt it's permenant.

I don't like the idea of bringing the brands back together - it's hard enough for talent to get chances as it is. Look at Jack Swagger. You don't even have him on your list. A guy like him, or CM Punk would never get a chance without multiple brands.

Plus the E would lose a lot of money, because they would only be doing half the house shows they do now.

Less the expense on putting on that house show. Just a short time till Vince's kids take the company over.

[DonkeyJote]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

Less the expense on putting on that house show. Just a short time till Vince's kids take the company over.

I have no idea how much they make per show, but let's say for argument's sake they pull in $10,000 a show, and it costs $7,000 to do it (I have no clue how much they actually do or what the differential is, but it's not really important). They do currently, what, 6 house shows a week (Raw on Fri, Sat, Sun, SD on Sat, Sun, Mon) or something along those lines. 52 weeks a year, that means they do 312 dates a year. So, using my completely made up figures, they pull in $3,120,000 while spending $2,184,000. That's a profit of $936,000. If you only do 3 shows a week, you cut your profits in half, and now you're down to $418,000.

The numbers don't really matter, but what does matter is that they are losing half of their profit if they cut down house shows. Now you could say that a lot of that would be offset by not having as big a roster, and while that is true, think of this, you'll probably also have to pay your wrestlers more money total now, and have higher injury risks, since now you're asking them to do 5 shows a week, many of them double duty if they do ECW as well. So instead of a performer doing 208 dates a year, they're up to 260 dates a year. And the E is still doing less dates than they previously did, but now they're talent is doing more.

Business-wise, it makes no sense to stop the Brand-Extension. Not to mention, what do you do with ECW and Superstars? ECW is a brand for up and coming guys, but if you end the extension, it becomes Sunday Night Heat. And Superstars becomes Velocity, or whatever the Saturday night show was back in the day. And Sci-Fi and WGN are not going to be happy about that.

Plus, in this day and age, with TNA offering the light schedule it does, I don't think WWE can afford to increase the schedule and hope to hold onto veterens. What you're proposing would give guys only 2 days at home a week, as opposed to the three they get now. If you start making the schedule even harder, then you're going to see more guys go to TNA like Kurt Angle and Booker T did. HHH and HBK would probably stay put, but I could see guys like Taker, Big Show, Batista, Edge, Jericho jumping to TNA for a lighter load.

Plus, look at the positives of the Brand Extension. We get 3 different programs a week, with different styles. RAW is different than SD!. ECW is different that both. They have different writers, with different feuds, ideas, and styles. Even the production styles are different. I like RAW for it's good promos, but SD! has better, longer, matches. And ECW is a great showcase for young talent, and they do a great job of building up main events as being very important.

[Stormyhog]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

What I don't like is how their are 2 world champions and 2 tag team champions plus 2 women titles. I would rather have had the belt holders crossover to the different brands as that would open up many more storylines and put the emphasis back on one champion making it more meaningful.

[DonkeyJote]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

What I don't like is how their are 2 world champions and 2 tag team champions plus 2 women titles. I would rather have had the belt holders crossover to the different brands as that would open up many more storylines and put the emphasis back on one champion making it more meaningful.

They tried that at first, and it didn't work that well. SD! would have a whole month of no World Title feud, and then RAW would have a month of no world title feud. The title was more important, yeah, but the show without a title feud suffered greatly for the month.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

They should try making it title relevent again. The dudley boys vs hardys vs edge/christian tag team era is one of the best ever. Now it's just a bunch of randomely paired superstars together.

[jmillhimes]

Re: The end of the brand extension would look like this

Word going arund though is Smackdown is going to be crushed in the Draft again. If Rey is healthy, he will be back on Smackdown but Smackdown may lose HHH and Edge back to RAW.