WWE Backlash: 5 burning questions heading into Backlash
May 6th approaches, and on that date, WWE will showcase their first co-branded pay per view that is not one of the 'big four PPVs of Wrestlemania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series and Royal Rumble.
After experimenting with brand exclusive pay per views, for their own reasons, whether monetarily or something else, it was decided it would be best suited to put Raw and Smackdown Live matches on the same pay per views going forward.
It does reduce the volume of pay per views, and but also means what could have been lacklustre events are instead something to look forward too.
For the company's first pay per view since Wrestlemania, several different things have developed.
Feuds and storylines are picking up, and talent has returned after being absent from the company for some time.
What will happen with some of the titles; will they change brands? Will talent return to their old brand holding those titles now, or will they add to the championships held on the brand that they are now a part of?
Fans have many questions regarding the event, so here are five burning questions heading into Backlash.
#5 How will the women's face dynamic on either Raw or Smackdown Live remain intact?
Once it was determined who would be on Raw and who would be on Smackdown Live after the Superstar Shakeup, the next question became who will remain a face on their respective roster.
On the Raw side, we have seen Ronda Rousey come out to help Natalya not once, but twice. At one point Natalya appeared to look at Rousey with frustration.
Perhaps that frustration could have been because she wasn't able to do it herself, or because she may feel her 'friend' was upstaging her.
The same could be said about Bayley and Sasha Banks; does one of them turn on the other or do we continue to tease tension?
On the Smackdown Live women's side, while there are no clear indications of any animosity between Asuka and Charlotte, one has to wonder how long their respect for one another turns into jealousy, rooted in the desire to become the WWE Smackdown Live women's champion.
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