The big story today has been the announcement that WWE SmackDown will be going live on Tuesdays starting on July 19th and will be bringing back the brand extension. The Wrestling Observer has new details on their current plans for the brand extension, including the fact that people within the company seem to agree that there will be two World Titles again.
This comes with the usual Observer caveat that things can change, particularly on something as big as this, but according to the site the talk within the company is that each show will have a World Title and that one show will have the United States Title while the other will have the Intercontinental Championship. The Women’s Division is believed to be going to one brand, although that isn’t confirmed. The Tag team Titles will be on both shows.
The current plan is to have the Draft on the July 11th RAW in Detroit, Michigan. As of now, talent don’t know where they’ll end up. Vince McMahon is said to be “pumped up” about the brand extension and full of ideas regarding it. WWE is expected do NXT callups to fill the main rosters, and will aggressively pursue outside talent as they will have four tours (SmackDown, RAW and two NXT tours) going at times.
The decision to do the split was made within the last few weeks and some talent were told about it on Sunday at Extreme Rules.
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