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In terms of male singles, Smackdown blows Raw out of the water. Raw probably has stronger women and tag divisions though.

Who are they going to programme Orton with after this Wyatt shit finally ends if AJ already has a feud lined up?

Justice for The Miz!

She's been training in Florida for at least a little while. I'd love her to be part of a Rusev babyface act as an Elizabeth with more agency but I guess she can do that and be a worker at the same time. Poor Nak could have been feuding the Miz but he's saddled with this loser instead. Sad.

Lana is a worker now? Imagine giving Dolph Ziggler a microphone in 2017. Draft him to TNA please.

This ten thing is no good

From the exact moment of that announcement, I will be counting down the minutes til we get an extended Rusev vs AJ Styles match.

RUSEV IS ON SMACKDOWN, YES

Haha, I was just thinking of how he could swerve us and Tamina appears instead. At least they got Charlotte in the end but Tamina is barely a pick seeing she's not been on TV in forever

I hope to God they don't switch Sasha over to Smackdown as well Charlotte as some had discussed. They need at least two years apart now.

Primo and Epico is a very underwhelming switch unless they reboot the gimmicks but even then, they've been jobbers for years.

Except American Alpha it seems... I'd love Roman to move to Smackdown just so he can go back to having trios matches with The Usos.

Bray Wyatt needs taken off TV for a few months and repackaged.

Isn't Jericho taking off to do his rock star cosplay again though? So he's bound to jobbing on the way out

Zayn and Owens on the same show yet again. Kinda pointless doing a switch up if we end up with all the same feuds again just with different coloured ropes.

Neither of those feuds sound as entertaining as a programme with Miz tbh

Ambrose too. Smackdown needs a few big names or they're pretty much gutted. Ambrose has sucked for a few months but he's still one of the top 5 babyfaces in the company. Seems pointless to move two people over and have them just interact with each other as if it were Smackdown anyway.

Miz and Maryse to Raw is the first move. Disappointed tbh because they're so perfect on Smackdown and I really wanted that Nakamura programme.

I think I'd heard that he was hurt (ankle injury?) but don't recall the details. https://twitter.com/WWE/status/851555525367971841 Not sure if this just means someone jumping from Smackdown or a team returning to the company

Vince Russo is, was and continues to be verified trash. What happens to these people to give them such fucked up ideas about women though? How can he ever befriend let alone have a relationship with any woman when the height of his concern with them in any professional capacity is if he can see their nipples? Oh yeah and he's a homophobe too. Funny how that so often goes hand in hand with misogyny.

I would love Rusev and Lana as a babyface pairing on Smackdown (or any show tbh)

A Reigns and Usos trios running things as heels would be great. WWE trios matches usually work great. That would be so awesome. I enjoyed them as a trio in the post-Mania run with The Club last year. WWE have announced online that Apollo Crews has been switched to Raw so it seems this shake-up will go deeper than has been anticipated by many.

Honestly, I had to make a concerted effort not to throw it into that post I just made... *goes to shower*

I've seen the word kayfabe creeping into non-wrestling usage recently, especially among young left-wing people on social media actually. I think to a degree some of those terms have just crossed over into popular culture, or certainly online culture at least. It's harder than ever to tell what a casual fan is. Because of the proliferation of insider language on social media etc. there are people that we definitely wouldn't consider to be 'knowledgeable fans' who are appropriating this language. For example, I've seen tweets from people who love Dean Ambrose and think he's the best ever talking about 'four star matches' etc. without any sense of this meaning anything beyond being a term of praise for wrestling matches. As wrestling becomes dragged further and further into the realms of internet culture and nerd fandom, it becomes less and less possible (and potentially relevant) to tell what a casual fan is. I think the term casual fan in the way it's employed is in a sense virtue signalling. It's used by the sort who think John Cena and Roman Reigns are the worst wrestlers in history and such nonsense and thus 'casual fan' is used as a distinguishing term (along with 'women and kids' because they are homogeneous blocks) for those who love Rollins, Owens, Balor etc. to express their sense of superiority.

Do they have to know the terminology or just the concept? Because surely everyone knows wrestling has good guys and bad guys by now.