Shane McMahon was recently on an episode of the Cheap Heat podcast in order to promote ESPN’s new WWE coverage. During the interview the head of Smackdown LIVE spoke on a wide variety of topics. One of these was the deck being stacked against his brand. RAW received 3 selections for every 2 for Smackdown during the WWE draft. As a result they ended up with a much stronger roster.
Here are some highlights of the interview:
Shane talks about the pride in becoming the better show than RAW:
“There is a lot of personal pride and you’re already starting to see, as we kinda say internally, Team Blue, which I’m proud to be a part of, we’re out to win. We want a better show, we want better creative, we want better talent, we want better quality matches and that’s exactly what we’re trying to pull off each week. It’s a big ship to turn but I feel we’re, each and every week… we’re not going to do a great job every week, even though we try, but we are definitely changing the direction of where SmackDown goes, specifically. And because of what we’re doing Team Red or Raw is saying ‘oh, look what they’re doing” (Source: Cheap Heat, H/T Cageside Seats).
He says the deck was stacked against Smackdown LIVE but that is okay with him and Daniel Bryan:
“Now, again, there’s a lot of personal pride in it in saying ‘good luck, you guys keep going.’ The deck was stacked and that’s fine with Daniel and I. Raw got an immense amount of picks. We definitely wanted some of the talent to come over to SmackDown but we have a great crew and we’re trying to develop more talent you’ll start to see — we can talk about that a little bit later — coming into SmackDown. But more importantly utilizing what you have. We have an immense amount of great guys and girls that have never, to your point earlier, gotten the opportunity to let it out there. That’s what we’re all about” (Source: Cheap Heat, H/T Cageside Seats).
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I think everyone will agree that RAW got the better end of the WWE draft