4. Steve Austin Says WWE Doesn’t Have “Incredible Depth” In Their Roster For Brand Split
During a recent edition of the Steve Austin Show, WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin discussed about WWE going back to brand split. Austin was not happy with how Vince McMahon noted in the press release that WWE has an incredible depth on their roster. Below is what Austin had to say about this:
“I’m quoting Vince from the SmackDown stuff. It says, ‘WWE’s flagship programs will both leverage the incredible depth of our talent roster, distinct storylines, and the unpredictable nature of live TV.’ Okay, lets go back to the ‘incredible depth’ of the talent roster. I don’t see ‘incredible depth’. It is a lot of bodies, a lot of people, and talented people, but I don’t think you can say your roster’s necessarily deep. But you do have a lot of players or people they’re going to try out and we’ll see how they do. Are they going to make the all-star team by getting over or are they just going to be bodies that go out there and occupy time on the television screen?”
Austin further noted that SmackDown should be presented on the show level as Raw for it to be successful. Also, if SmackDown storylines are just as good as Raw’s then SmackDown might turn out to be the more popular show because Raw is too long.
Austin then talked about the importance of having only 1 World Champion:
“I absolutely think that the World Champion ought to travel back and forth between Raw and SmackDown. If the champion is on Raw, Reigns, who has the Championship, goes to SmackDown, to me, that in and of itself creates something that I want to see.”
