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Main roster performers primarily appear on Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown, while developmental wrestlers appear on NXT. Supplementary shows include Main Event , which primarily features Raw wrestlers (with occasional appearances from NXT wrestlers), and Speed , which features wrestlers from all three brands and has its own ...
WWE currently divides its roster between three brands. Most wrestlers perform exclusively on a single brand (with select exemptions). WWE's two primary brands are Raw and SmackDown, collectively referred to as the main roster. NXT serves as the developmental brand (although it was considered a third main brand from 2019 to 2021). [1]
Due to Raw being a three-hour show and SmackDown being a two-hour show, Raw received three picks each round and SmackDown received two. Six draft picks had to be made amongst the non-title holders from WWE's developmental brand, NXT. [8] Seth Rollins was picked first by Raw, with WWE Champion Dean Ambrose being SmackDown's first pick. [9]
Dawn agrees: “Fans being able to watch it whenever they want, and all the shows, including ‘Raw,’ ‘SmackDown,’ and ‘NXT,’ that was unheard of in Scotland before,” she says, citing ...
During this time period, some at NXT referred to the promotion as WWE's 'third brand', [27] [28] [29] although many journalists still referred to NXT as developmental, with Raw and SmackDown viewed as WWE's "main roster". [30] [31] WWE wrestler Matt Riddle called NXT a "small ocean", while "when you get to the main roster you are in the ocean ...
Inaugural champion Lyra Valkyria. The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, but it never had a secondary women's championship until April 2024 when the NXT Women's North American Championship was introduced for the developmental brand NXT, [1] followed by the WWE Women's United States Championship for the main roster brand SmackDown in early November.
Wrestlers assigned to Raw primarily appear on the brand's weekly television program, Monday Night Raw, also referred to simply as Raw. It is one of WWE's two main brands, along with SmackDown, collectively referred to as WWE's main roster. The brand extension was discontinued between August 2011 and July 2016.
SmackDown is a brand of the American professional wrestling promotion WWE that was established on March 25, 2002. Brands are divisions of WWE's roster where wrestlers are assigned to perform on a weekly basis when a brand extension is in effect.