The Bloodline is about to cause some huge issues for WWE, so we’ll see what’s going
on there.
We’ll also check out what Bobby Lashley had to say, another female superstar that
has vanished, and much more
Let’s start things off with this update for The Bloodline and how they could cause
some conflict in WWE down the line
Every time you think Roman Reigns and The Usos have peaked, they find a way to shatter
the ceilings and keep going up
In 2021, The Bloodline looked dominant with Roman Reigns as Universal Champion and The
Usos as Smackdown tag team champions
But follow that up a little less than a year later, and all the Bloodline member have doubled
their amount of titles and captured a majority of the Raw titles
What’s going on with the Bloodline and the dominance they have over the championships
in WWE could play a huge role in the direction for WWE
Like we talked about a few days ago, thanks to the bloodline, there’s now only one world
champion and one set of tag team champions
We talked about how that could mark the beginning of the end for WWE’s brand split
Well now fans are bringing up another big question.
If Roman Reigns and The Usos all hold their respective titles into the end of the year,
what will happen with the Survivor Series event?
And this is a really good question the the fans brought up
WWE used to have a pay-per-view event name “Bragging Rights”, which was themed around
the idea of Raw versus Smackdown
Then over the last few years, WWE sort of morphed Bragging Rights into the Survivor
Series event
Now Survivor Series was all of a sudden themed with Raw versus Smackdown
It was a decent idea at first, but as years went by, fans started to realize that there
were no high stakes or nothing really at risk with these Raw versus Smackdown editions of
Survivor Series
All year long, no one really shows “brand pride” or how they’re the better show
over the other WWE show.
The only time superstars care about competing with the opposite brand is during the few
weeks leading up to survivor series
But immediately after the Survivor Series event ends, none of the results actually matter,
no superstar ever brings up what happened at Survivor Series ever again
It doesn’t matter if Raw wins, or Smackdown wins because nothing is on the line
The winning brand doesn’t get anything, and the losing brand doesn’t lose anything
Some fans have suggested that they should set up a prize so that the winning brand of
Survivor Series would get the number one pick in the following year’s WWE draft
Now that idea is cool, it would give Raw versus Smackdown some purpose and something to actually
compete for at least, but it’s something that WWE has never done
And the Team Raw versus Team Smackdown traditional survivor series matches aren’t interesting
at all because of the same reasons…
nothing matters, nothing is on the line
Look back to the Survivor Series 2014 match and that was absolutely amazing.
A traditional survivor series match with the authority’s job on the line, that was a
high risk, high stakes match that had fans on the edge of their seats
Team Raw versus Team Smackdown matches can’t really give us the same level of excitement
that the authority survivor series match gave us
But the point that fans brought up is that with the rumors of the brand split ending
and the bloodline members holding both Raw and Smackdown titles, how in the world is
WWE gonna pull off a Raw versus Smackdown theme in 2022?
And that’s true, if The Bloodline holds their titles into Survivor Series season,
it’s gonna be impossible to do a full Raw versus Smackdown theme
So for the fans who’ve been patiently waiting for the Raw versus Smackdown theme for survivor
series to end, it looks like we may finally get a new theme for the show in 2022
Of course, that event is months away, so it’s still too early to tell, a lot can change,
but the fans recently brought it up and it was a great point
As far as a WWE update for Roman Reigns and The Usos, there’s a lot of uncertainty there
The Usos are still around full time, even appear on both Raw and Smackdown, so nothing
should really change with them
They’ll likely compete against Raw and Smackdown teams now that they’re unified champions
The uncertainty is more with Roman Reigns.
Roman won’t be at Hell In A Cell, that’s been known for several weeks
But now Roman has been pulled from the advertising for the Money In The Bank event as well, so
no one knows what they really means, besides the idea that he may not be a part of those
shows
So if he’s not gonna be at Hell In A Cell or Money In The Bank, Roman’s next title
defense could very much be Summerslam after all
Randy Orton and Riddle are being highly rumored as Roman’s next few opponents, so we’ll
have to see if either of them steps up to Roman Reigns for Summerslam
So a lot of big upcoming WWE events look like they’re about to go on without Roman Reigns,
so WWE will have to put a lot of effort into some of the other storylines to keep that
interest high because it would appear that they’ll be without their world champion
for the next few big events
So we’ll have to keep an eye on Roman’s status for those few events
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Another superstar who hasn’t quietly gone missing in recent weeks is Zelina Vega
She was last seen right after Wrestlemania and her story with Carmella was left pretty
open-ended
They broke up as a tag team, but then appeared with each other again the following week,
so their tag team status is a mystery
They can be done as a tag team or appear again as a tag team because the answer isn’t that
clear there
But reports claim that Zelina Vega suffered a quiet injury that needed surgery
Her reported recovery time frame is 6 to 8 week, so for everyone wondering where Zelina
and that whole Carmella story went, this appears to be the reason why
Zelina will be back in maybe a little over a month and we’ll see where they decide
to take her at from there
Zelina Vega and Carmella are rumored to take part in the women’s tag team tournament,
so we’ll see if that’s the plan for them after all
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Bobby Lashley was a recent guest on The Bump and had a lot to say
We previously talked about the comments he made about wanting to face Brock Lesnar at
next year’s Wrestlemania
Well another topic that Lashley touched on was the lack of a world title being on Raw
and how he would like to face Roman as well
Bobby Lashley had this to say, quote:
"We need a title on RAW.
We need that World Title at RAW.
Right now, Roman's on top of this world.
I'd like to get on that level.
He can look at bringing that title back over to RAW and giving me an opportunity to challenge
for that.
That's another really great matchup.”
End quote
And Lashley is right, it goes back to what we were just talking about with Roman’s
upcoming absences from these next few events
Before the unification match, Raw had a world title feud, Smackdown had a world title feud,
and there were usually two huge world title matches at each premium live event that WWE
can build the show around
But ever since the world title unification took place, Roman Reigns is now the only world
champion and there could only be one world title match at each of these events
But another issue is that Roman hasn’t defended his title since the beginning of April at
Wrestlemania
So not only is there only one world champion, but that world champion isn’t defending
his title on a regular basis anymore, so it does put Raw and even Smackdown in a weird
place now because there’s no world title programs going on in either of WWE’s top
two shows
So that’s one of the voids that both shows have to deal with right now, the absence of
a world title and main event programs
Bobby Lashley is putting it out there that Raw needs a world title again and he’s willing
to take on Roman Reigns to bring that title back to raw
So we’ll have to see how that turns out, but what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
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