It only took a few weeks, but WWE got tired of having to follow their brand split. Again.
On Monday’s Raw, SmackDown’s AJ Styles appeared and noted he was a SmackDown guy, but still wanted to come to Raw to give praise to Seth Rollins, who he faced at Night of Champions this past Saturday. After Judgement Day interrupted the promo, Adam Pearce made a tag match backstage, admitting this flew in the face of the idea of separate brands. Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer talked about the storyline on Wrestling Observer Radio Tuesday morning.
“You knew it was going to happen,” Meltzer said. “I mean, Heyman’s been on the show a couple of times.”
Meltzer wondered if AEW could do better, with rumors being that Dynamite and Collision could see different rosters.
“If they do it, they are going to do it better, because WWE can not do it worse,” Alvarez said. “People are just showing up wherever they want.”
When the question comes up as to why WWE seems to do this every single time they get serious about the brand split, it ends up being the same reason: booking strict rules in wrestling is hard.
