More WWE Creative Team Changes Expected
After Road Dogg’s recent departure as head writer of SmackDown, WWE could see more changes in its creative team.
Road Dogg (Real name: Brian James) shocked the WWE Universe when he recently departed the company after having a major position in the cretive team.
James was co-lead writer on SmackDown and had been with the Stamford-based promotion since 2014 in a creative role.
Following his exit, WWE announced that Alexandra Williams was promoted to the position of Vice President and lead writer on Raw.
Williams announced her promotion on X, and this came at a time when the company’s creative structure seemed to be shifting.
More Changes Expected In WWE’s Creative Team
The creative team has had to deal with many injuries to major stars in the build-up to WrestleMania 42. This disrupted the company’s original WrestleMania plans and forced the creative team to pivot multiple times with their storylines.
Brian Alvarez, during Wrestling Observer Live, shed some light on the situation, saying that Brian James’ role in creative had already shifted last summer.
Then I think it was like last summer. He wasn’t like, taken off creative, but maybe a restructuring and, and somebody else kind of took over.
WWE has a new lead writer, Alexandra Williams, posted Wednesday. She has been promoted to Vice President as well as lead writer of Raw. Williams has been with WWE since October 2020 starting as a writer and producer for Raw, getting a promotion as senior writer and producer February 2024, she is now the lead writer for Raw.
Alvarez stated that there’s a creative shake-up happening at the moment on both brands, and he has come to. know that there are more changes to come.
Basically, what’s happened here is we’ve got a creative shake-up on Raw and SmackDown. And it was hinted to me that it’s possible there is more to come.
Alvarez admitted that the creative hasn’t been great in recent months, and part of the reason is the major stars suffering injuries.
I’ll say this… Has the creative been great of late? It is not. Are there some reasons for that? Well, of course there is… one of the biggest things that was going to happen at WrestleMania was Bron Breakker beating CM Punk for the title and the elevation of Bron Breakker.”
And obviously Bron Breakker got hurt after Seth Rollins got hurt, Bronson Reed then got hurt.
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