The End of the Brand Extension?

[Troy]

After Wrestlemania, Raw superstars need to STAY on Raw and Smackdown superstars need to STAY on Smackdown.

I agree it would be nice if they actually enforced the brand extension. It used to be a massive deal when a Smackdown star appeared on RAW or vice versa whereas now it is overdone. If I could choose between WWE merging the rosters or enforcing the brand extension I would take the second option without blinking.

 

[ATKOOL]

I've cared less and less about the draft in recent years.

 

[We Are Legion]

Plenty of people disagree with me on this, but this is something that really should have happened a long time ago. There were only a few years towards the beginning of the last decade after WCW was purchased when I felt this was actually necessary. But after that merger had set in and a lot of WCW talents left WWE completely and even most of the WWE Attitude era talents left, I felt the brand extension was unnecessary. I've never liked the idea of two world championships and the brand extension killed the tag team division almost immediately.

I wouldn't be against the idea of there being a gimmick/stipulation where each show could have "exclusive privileges" to 1-3 top stars, just as long as it didn't also mean each show needs it's own world champion.

 

[PHX]

The only real good thing I would see about a brand extension ending would be the fact that there would only be one world champion therefore making it seem like a bigger deal. Besides that not looking forward to seeing WWE being lazy when it comes to it and just use the same main eventers twice on 2 shows.