Raw vs. Smackdown! vs. NXT

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So, I love the WWE. However, I always hate to play as them in EWR, because it seems way too overwhelming. The company is massive, there's no competition, and EWR's limitations makes it difficult to play out certain ideas, or be able to fit in all the ideas I want to. As a result, I usually end up playing as a smaller company like TNA, ROH... where I can actually utilize their entire roster.

But -- I remember ages ago, somebody uploaded a scenario for EWR where they split up Raw and Smackdown into different companies. I love this idea, since it actually gives WWE competition, and the actual smaller rosters are much easier to work with. I did this with Paige's latest September update (didn't ask permission -- sorry! I actually had no intention to release this originally, just wanted to do it for my own sake) and I split up Raw, Smackdown!, and NXT into their own companies. I wouldn't mind getting some feedback and ideas: I don't really watch NXT too much, so I based roster positions on their ratings in Paige's update. Also, aside from announcers and referees, I wasn't too sure where to put staff (production, road agents, etc.)

You can download the scenario here!

 

 

Some things to mention:

1. I made Stephanie McMahon owner of RAW, Shane McMahon owner of Smackdown!, and Paul Levesque owner of NXT. However... I left Triple H as a non-wrestler on RAW. As I said, I don't watch NXT very much, and to my understanding, Trips is more of a backstage figure in NXT. I released The Rock and Ric Flair, but kept The Undertaker as a non-wrestler on RAW.

2. RAW and Smackdown are both global and at 60% PI, while NXT is national and 70% PI.

3. RAW has a huge roster of 90+, while Smackdown! has about 38~ and NXT has 31~. It's a huge difference, but I didn't feel like releasing or keeping workers who are part of the CWC division on NXT was the right choice. I moved TJ Perkins, Brian Kendricks, Rich Swann, and a couple others to the main roster on RAW, but kept the rest in developmental.

4. Shared Pay Per Views (WrestleMania, SummerSlam, etc.) are apart of both brands. I renamed them to "Raw Presents WrestleMania" or "Smackdown! Presents Survivor Series" and so on. As far as next year's PPV's go (the ones not yet confirmed past December), I just winged it for the names of them. I tried to keep things somewhat realist though, and used the "newer" PPV names for RAW, while bringing back older PPV names for Smackdown. As far as NXT goes, I wanted to give them monthly PPV's as well, so I mostly just named them "NXT TakeOver: Random City". I used names previously used, and made up new ones.

 

Also...

I was hugely tempted to add What Culture Wrestling as a promotion to this as well. I actually started adding it to a different stat update, but could fuse it with this one if anyone's interested. It'll be far from perfect, but could be interesting!