We are officially through week 1 of the WWE brand split. RAW kicked off the ‘New Era’ with what some are calling one of the best episode’s they have ever seen. RAW was rewarded as we saw great ratings for the first week. It was clear that Smackdown LIVE had their work cut out for them. Smackdown LIVE put on a good show and we will see if they are able to keep up with RAW as we move forward. RAW General Manager Mick Foley took to his Facebook page to talk about the real competition between RAW and Smackdown LIVE.
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Here is what he said:
“Make no mistake about it – the competition between WWE Raw and WWE SmackDown Live is real. The competition between Stephanie McMahon – WWE and Shane McMahon is very real, and to some extent, so is the competition between me and Daniel Bryan. No one wants to be reminded constantly by their own son that the other general manager is more popular than you are. But you’d be wrong if you think I want #SmackdownLIVE to fail. I think it’s fair to say that Stephanie and I – along with the #WWE Superstars – hit it out of the park (a baseball reference for my cricket-playing friends in the British Commonwealth countries) last night on #RAW. Between the incredible emotion of the Sasha Banks victory, the star-making debut of Finn Bálor and the new look and feel of the show, it was a towering homerun for the #RAW team. But I won’t be rooting for #SmackdownLIVE to strike out tonight, or any Tuesday night. I sincerely want Daniel, Shane and the entire crew to hit it out of the park every week. Then we’ll take those figurative tape-measures out, and figure out whose towering homerun traveled further. If you think it’s #SmackdownLive, I’m afraid the answer is going to be NO, NO, NO! The tale of the tape will answer MICK and STEPH, STEPH, STEPH!” (Source: Mick Foley’s Facebook).
I think that is when the WWE is at its best… When their is solid competition. We obviously saw that during the ‘attitude era’ with WCW. Since no other companies are on the same scale as the WWE, they are creating their own competition. I really hope Smackdown LIVE is able to compete over the next couple weeks/months because it will make for some fun TV.
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