What would your brand split look like?

[LODemolition]

Monday Night Raw

Titles defended:

- Universal
- United States
- 24/7
- Women's
- Women's Tag Team

Men's main event and midcard babyfaces:

Seth Rollins (Universal Champion)
AJ Styles
Braun Strowman
Ricochet
Rey Mysterio
Ali
All 3 members of Lucha House Party
R Truth (24/7 Champion)
Titus O'Neil
No Way Jose
Apollo Crews
Fandango
Sin Cara
Cedric Alexander

The heels (men's singles):

Brock Lesnar
Samoa Joe (US Champion)
Bray Wyatt
Drew McIntyre
Baron Corbin
Randy Orton
Bobby Lashley
Elias
All 3 members of Sanity
EC3
Shelton Benjamin
Buddy Murphy
Mojo Rawley
Jinder Mahal

Women's main event and midcard babyfaces:

Becky Lynch (Women's Champions)
Bayley
Sasha Banks
Asuka
Ember Moon
Nikki Cross
Naomi
Natalya
Kairi Sane
Carmella
Dana Brooke

Women's main event and midcard heels:

Charlotte Flair
Alexa Bliss
Lacey Evans
Mandy Rose
Peyton Royce (one half of Women's Tag Team Champions)
Billie Kay (other half of Women's TagTeam Champions)
Nia Jax
Ruby Riott
Sarah Logan
Sonya Deville
Mickie James
Liv Morgan

Smackdown Live

Titles defended:

- WWE
- Intercontinental
- Men's Tag Team

Men's main even and midcard babyfaces:

Kofi Kingston (WWE Champion)
Roman Reigns
Finn Balor (IC Champion)
The Miz
Aleister Black
Big E
Xavier Woods
Matt Hardy
Jeff Hardy
Heath Slater
Rhyno
Chad Gable
Zack Ryder
Curt Hawkins
Jason Jordan

The heels (men's singles):

Daniel Bryan
Kevin Owens
Shane McMahon
Lars Sullivan
Sami Zayn
Andrade
Shinsuke Nakamura
Dolph Ziggler
Rusev
Bobby Roode
Cesaro
Sheamus
Rowan
Curtis Axel
Bo Dallas

Babyface tag teams:

The Usos
The New Day
The Hardy Boyz
Ryder & Hawkins
Slater & Rhyno
Heavy Machinery
Gallows & Anderson

Heel tag teams:

The Revival (Tag Team Champions)
Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn
Daniel Bryan & Rowan
The Bar
Authors of Pain
The Viking Raiders
The B Team

And here are some feuds (new or revisited) I would be interested in.

Raw:

Seth Rollins vs Drew McIntyre
Seth Rollins vs Bray Wyatt
Seth Rollins vs Randy Orton (Orton the heel this time)
Braun Strowman vs Drew McIntyre
Braun Strowman vs Bray Wyatt
Braun Strowman vs Randy Orton
AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe
AJ Styles vs Baron Corbin
AJ Styles vs Bray Wyatt
Bobby Lashley vs Brock Lesnar
Becky Lynch vs Alexa Bliss
Becky Lynch vs Asuka (with Asuka as a heel)
Becky Lynch vs Mandy Rose
Becky Lynch vs Ember Moon
Sasha Banks vs Lacey Evans
Sasha Banks vs Ember Moon
Bayley vs Sasha Banks
Bayley vs Lacey Evans
Bayley vs Ember Moon
Charlotte Flair vs Alexa Bliss
Charlotte Flair vs Mandy Rose
Ember Moon vs Asuka
Ember Moon vs Alexa Bliss
Ember Moon vs Lacey Evans
The Iiconics vs The Kabuki Warriors
The Iiconics vs Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville
The Iiconics vs Naomi & Carmella
The Kabuki Warriors vs Charlotte Flair & Sasha Banks
The Kabuki Warriors vs Alexa Bliss & Mickie James
The Kabuki Warriors vs The Riott Squad

Smackdown:

Kofi Kingston vs Shinsuke Nakamura
Kofi Kingston vs Andrade
Kofi Kingston vs Shane McMahon
Roman Reigns vs Lars Sullivan
Roman Reigns vs Shinsuke Nakamura
Finn Balor vs Daniel Bryan
Finn Balor vs Kevin Owens
The Miz vs Daniel Bryan (both men playing different roles this time)
The Revival vs Authors of Pain
The Revival vs The Viking Raiders
The Revival vs Owens & Zayn
The Revival vs The Bar
Heavy Machinery vs Authors of Pain
Heavy Machinery vs The Viking Raiders
Heavy Machinery vs The Revival
Authors of Pain vs The Viking Raiders
The Usos vs The Hardy Boyz
The Usos vs Authors of Pain
The Usos vs The Viking Raiders
The Usos vs Owens & Zayn
The New Day vs Authors of Pain
The New Day vs The Viking Raiders
The Hardy Boyz vs Authors of Pain
The Hardy Boyz vs The Viking Raiders
The Hardy Boyz vs Daniel Bryan & Rowan
The Hardy Boyz vs Owens & Zayn

 

[LODemolition]

This is more or less an extension of the "If you could run WWE" thread because a lot of people's complaints revolved around the brand split, whether it was the way it was executed or because it exists at all.

The first thing I would do is put the entire women's division on Raw and the entire tag team division on Smackdown. I don't feel that either division is deep enough to justify having 2 separate championships. And I think if the entire women's division were on Raw, they'd feel a little more obligated to throw a women's tag team championship on the card once in a while. Those titles have been completely swept under the rug since WrestleMania.

 

[Psykohurricane55]

Their have been a lot of thread similar to this one popping up in the last few days but it's always fun to reply to those so i will do it for this one as well

First This would be a Three brand WWE instead of two.

1. Raw:
Titles defended
Universal
U.S
Tag team
24/7

2. Smackdown
titles defended

WWE
Intercontinental
Women
women'S tag team

3. NXT

NXT title
North American
Tag title
cruiserweight

So my plan for the brand split would be to have all three brand on the same level. NXT doesn't have they stand alone event anymore and are part of the WWE PPV calendar. You would have 6 triple brand PPV and each brand get 2 stand alone PPV

The main guy on raw would be Rollins and Styles for the babyface and Mcintyre and Corbin on the heel side

Raw would get the tag division and the 24/7 division since they have more time to do stuff like that on Raw.

Smackdown top guys would be, Reigns and Strowman for the face and Orton and Bryan for the heel. They would also gain Lesnar as a part time attraction on smackdown since they are on network tv and Lesnar is a mega star.

They would also get the women's division as a whole so that mean the women'S single and tag division would be smackdown exclusive.

NXT top guys would be Johnny Gargano and Ricochet for the face and Tommasso Ciampa and Adam cole for the heel

They would also gain the cruiserweight title since i would merge 205 live with NXT.
The show would past from 1 hour to 2 hour per week and i would have one air live and the other be a tape episode.

So as far as the rest of the rosters goes. Raw would get more guys mostly because of the length of the show compared to the other 2 and i would put most of the indy guys on NXT at first since that's the brand that attract a different style of crowd.

Also no more wildcard rule and no more going back and fouth between brand as far as champions are concern. So the 24/7 title stays on Raw, you can do Youtube clips during the week for that title but it as to involve wrestlers from raw.

Finally. i would have a c level show for all three brand where you will have mostly squash matches like the old days of WWE. Raw would have Main event, Smackdown would get superstars and NXT would get a show as well.

On the day after mania, i would do a actually draft to shake things up and move around some wrestlers around. maybe even considered switch some of the division around and by that i mean maybe send the tag division to smakdown and the women's division on raw.

 

[BigDaddyKewl]

It seems like they dug themselves in a hole with the brand split and now it’s a convoluted mess. It seemed like it worked out ok for the first year but now it’s back to square one with too many titles and people jumping back and fourth with the “Wild Card” rule. They seem to be investing more time in the 24-7 Title then they are with the US, IC, Raw Tag, Smackdown Tag Titles which are all irrelevant at this point. They need to scrap the Brand Split get rid of some titles and make some roster cuts since the majority mid card is getting buried anyway. I might sound like a broken record but they need to get also 3rd hour of Raw or else ratings are going to continue plummeting.

 

[neildittmar]

Current brand split is effectively dead. Both shows / rosters are becoming one as the weeks go by. Experiment failed... again.

As for what I'd like to see in a brand split? Consistency! I'd like to see Vince / creative operate the brand split (and the shows in general) based on what's best for the business, not what's best for the current network/advertising deal on the burner. I've got to believe that this is where the "wild card rule" was birthed from and it has been all downhill from there. Said rule doesn't even seem to be referenced on TV anymore and it surely isn't capped at 4 superstars per weekly "leap."