Several Potential Changes As SmackDown Live Goes To FOX

SmackDown Live is officially heading to FOX in the future. We have compiled a number of changes that WWE is expected to make for the new Network.

Some of the first announcements or rumors we’ve heard in regards to FOX taking SmackDown Live is that WWE will be adding an extra hour to the show, changing the air dates from Tuesdays to Fridays.

If this is to be believed, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Radio discussed how WWE may be forced to deal with the changes during WrestleMania week.

This is because WrestleMania week usually includes the PPV itself, NXT: TakeOver, Raw and the Hall of Fame.

Here is what Meltzer had to say:

“I wonder about the idea of a SmackDown Live on a Friday before WrestleMania. I guess you could do that as the go-home show Obviously the NXT [TakeOver] will move to Saturday and the Hall Of Fame would move to Thursday or Tuesday, I’m going to guess Thursday because if it’s on Tuesday everyone’s going to go home and it will die.”

This would still be a problem as the post-WrestleMania SmackDown Live would be days apart from Raw or the Hall of Fame, meaning a good portion of the audience would have left.

Meltzer also speculated that the announce team itself could get a shake-up:

“I don’t know what those changes will be but I wouldn’t be surprised if the announcers change. You know? Because usually when they do those things they always think of the announcers and probably maybe they’ll do those cosmetic things that they do, they’ll move the announcers to a different spot, they’ll shoot different angles.”

Finally, Meltzer also addresses a potential set change for the show:

“I think that they’ll try to give certainly SmackDown a complete overhaul in looks because that’s what they like to do when they go to a new station.”

“For SmackDown I think that last 6 months or so before the move is done I think they’ll all be brainstorming on how can we change it, let’s give it a facelift, let’s give it some changes.”

Check out the commercial for SmackDown Live moving to the USA Network ahead of the change to the FOX Network:

WWE SmackDown moves to USA Network — Tonight!

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