WWE Hall Of Famer and current RAW General Manager Mick Foley took to social media to post a blog following the conclusion of the first week of television following the WWE Draft and the start of the latest brand extension.
According to the “Hardcore Legend,” there is a sense of legitimate competition within the two individual WWE brands — RAW and SmackDown Live — as well as a real competitive nature between siblings Shane McMahon and Stephanie McMahon.
You can read Foley’s latest blog, “My SmackDown Wish,” courtesy of his official Facebook page below.
MY SMACKDOWN WISH
Make no mistake about it – the competition between#RAW and #SmackdownLIVE is real. The competition between Stephanie McMahon and Shane McMahon is very real, and to some extent, so is the competition between me and Daniel Bryan. No one wants to be minded constantly by their own son that the other general manager is more popular than you are. But you’d be wrong if you think I want #SmackdownLIVE to fail. I think it’s fair to say that Stephanie and I – along with the #WWE Superstars – hit it out of the park (a baseball reference for my cricket-playing friends in the British Commonwealth countries) last night on #RAW. Between the incredible emotion of the Sasha Banks victory, the star-making debut of Finn Balor and the new look and feel of the show, it was a towering homerun for the #RAW team. But I won’t be rooting for #SmackdownLIVE to strike out tonight, or any Tuesday night. I sincerely want Daniel, Shane and the entire crew to hit it out of the park every week. Then we’ll take those figurative tape-measures out, and figure out whose towering homerun traveled further. If you think it’s #SmackdownLive, I’m afraid the answer is going to be NO, NO, NO! The tale of the tape will answer MICK and STEPH, STEPH, STEPH!