No Heat before Vengeance

[Guest oldschoolwrestling]

Ever since WWE began the "hard split" brand extension in June, there has been a question as to what they would do on Sunday night's before the PPV. Up until the brand extension, the Sunday Night Heat slot served as an hour "warm up show" for the PPV. There was no problem last month, since the first brand only PPV was a Raw show and Heat is part of that brand. But with Smackdown running their first PPV this weekend, the question was, "How would they explain promoting a Smackdown brand PPV on Heat?" The answer is, "They won't." WWE has decided that on the night of Smackdown PPVs, they will flip flop Heat with Velocity, which is a Smackdown brand show. So this week, Velocity will precede the PPV and be the warm up show for Vengeance. ... Thanks to Devin Cutting for contributing to this story.

 

 

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[Guest Random Hero]

Makes sense really doesn't it.

[Guest AndrewTS]

WWE doing something logical?

 

*Head explodes*

[Garth 0]

What can i say...... i'm shocked. Did Dreamer sneak back into writers meetings?

[Guest Retro Rob]

My jawdropped when I read that since it wasn't a bad decision.

[Guest Raven_Effect01]

That sounds good.

 

One question though: Which show do any of you think would be logical to precede Summerslam, since it's one of the Big 5 WWE PPV's where the brands come back together for one night?

[Guest webmasterofwrestlegame]

Yeah but now they realise they are relying on The Cat and Josh Matthews to shill the PPV...

[Guest Mattdotcom]

This had seriously been bothering me. I almost made a thread about this two weeks ago.

 

Will Heat be on Saturday night?

[Guest oldschoolwrestling]

Confidential.

 

 

 

 

Kidding. I'm sure they'll go back to Heat, but maybe have hosts from both shows.

[Guest Retro Rob]

Or call it the SummerSlam Free For All, or Pre-Game Show, or Countdown, something along those lines. Otherwise they will just stick with Heat.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Wow...they do something that makes a little sense

[The Decemberists 0]

Free For All!!

 

They really should bring these back for the 'big 5'. I'm sure Todd Pettengil would do it for almost nothing, and if not, does anyone know what the legend that is Sean Mooney is doing nowerdays?

 

Remember the beach party they had backstage for SummerSlam 96? They should do that again to. And have palm trees on the ring apron. That'd get buy rates up.

[slimm44 0]

I was thinking about this thursday during Smackdown. I'm glad they're doing this.

[Guest Choken One]

So Heat will be on Saturday night now or not at all?

[Guest Retro Rob]

This week Heat will swap with Velocity, then it will go back to normal.

[Guest Choken One]

Ah...So no Tapings this week for Velocity...

 

I'm still banking on Gunn/Knoble for Velocity...

[Guest wwF1587]

thats actually a really good idea (who knew they would come up with ONE in a whole year).. i hope they just let micheal cole and tazz hype up the ppv from ringside while people are comin in... cat/mathews put me to sleep

[Guest Lord of The Curry]

Gunn vs Noble will probably make the PPV if they go w/ the "Indecent Proposal" match that all the kids are raving about these days. The card has seven matches on it (I don't count the APA dealy) so they could probably fit it in, mainly because Steph vs Sable and Vince vs Zack will be short.

[Guest Choken One]

Mathews is like J.R junior as he knows the 3rd string jobber's history...like what position he played in 11th grade Junior Varsity and what cookies they perfer Oatmeal or Suger?

 

Cat throws in like MAYBE 2 good lines a week but keeps going "YOU LOST TOUGH ENOUGH! HA!"