The Supershow is apparently dead

[Stopspot]

Beginning tomorrow night, WWE’s weekly Monday night program will be officially referred to as Raw rather than Raw SuperShow. It was apparently a sudden change as all future Mondays events were labeled Raw SuperShow as recently as last week. WWE.com changed their live events listings to reflect the change.

WWE instituted the Raw SuperShow tag on August 29, 2011 due to the addition of the SmackDown brand roster to the weekly program. SmackDown talent will continue to appear on Raw.

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[Snowman1]

So, basically the brand extension is still dead, they're just changing the name?

:downer:

 

[Leo C]

Interesting, really nice. That "Supershow" written SD style under "Raw" annoyed me for some reason.

 

[Stopspot]

To have the major smackdown guys appear on RAW is inevitable since the storylines is so much more intertwined nowadays. Still it opens up for the smaller guys on SD.

 

[Crayo]

So, basically the brand extension is still dead, they're just changing the name?

:downer:

Pretty much this.

 

[Farooq]

:facepalm1: Please unify the world titles

 

[Snowman1]

:facepalm1: Please unify the world titles

There's literally no reason not to at this point.

 

[Crayo]

:facepalm1: Please unify the world titles

They should only do this if it's becoming one show. If I had it my way I'd have SmackDown a completely different product than RAW, a different show, similar to ECW. Different feel about it, so much so that when RAW and SmackDown stars confront each other you're like "Oh shit". Make it rare, have it so rare that they actually collide. You need a title on each show to have it that way.

 

[Farooq]

But it's not like that anymore. It's all just one thing basically now.

 

[Leo C]

So we're back to when SD first debuted? Raw and SD, same people on both shows but they're different things right? They'll probably keep the method they have today, where people are on both shows but there's still a "division", so they can have two house show circuits.

 

[Robbie Coletrain]

Why can't they just go back to being it's own brand? Or at least unify the belts.

 

[2000luisluis]

I think that no supershow is great for a 2 reasons:
1.It gave Smackdown no meaning since the Smackdown stars were on Raw
2.It didn't give enough time for other Raw stars to be on Raw

 

[Matt]

I hated the supershow thing anyway

 

[Samalan]

I also hated the supershow thing so glad they did that. Smackdown is pointless now, just the same as Raw so if anything, Smackdown should be renamed to Raw Supershow because what is the difference?

 

[Lockard 23]

After awhile, it became stupid to keep calling it a Supershow anyway. A tiny step closer to the brand extension being completely dead (technically it already is since there's just two world titles, but no real brand split.) If they unified the belts, it would be extremely obvious that the WWE Champion would win though, because the WWE Title is the 'real' world title of the company.