There were some rumors prior to Smackdown this week that Vince McMahon came in and re-wrote the entire show at the last minute.
In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscribe here), Dave Meltzer provided some context on what is going on behind-the-scenes with Smackdown right now.
This includes mentioning that there are only three Smackdown stars who WWE writers are currently listening to. This is in terms of them pitching their own storylines and promos. Here is what he wrote:
“The 7/30 Smackdown show in Memphis was rewritten hours before the show took place by Vince. Vince felt the show presented to him both didn’t do a good job following up from the prior week, nor did it build SummerSlam strongly enough. Eric Bischoff and Bruce Prichard are working together on the show, but Bischoff at this point doesn’t have much to do with any creative ideas as he’s just learning who is what and the system. Vince was still working on changes in the second hour while the first hour was taking place.
Shane, Owens and Bryan pitch most of their stuff to the writers so segments involving those three often come from those three, but they are the only ones the writers seem to listen to. You can tell with Owens and Bryan as their interviews are so much different from everyone elses”
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