Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
WWE originally had plans to turn SmackDown general manager Booker T heel in the weeks following WrestleMania 29, but those plans have been scrapped.
It appears that the new direction will be to turn Teddy Long heel, and then he will become the new general manager of SmackDown.
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