WWE Crown Jewel features the World Cup tournament, where superstars from both brands compete to determine who is the best in the world. The booking for this could go a few ways and which might have an effect on Wrestlemania.
Such as Shane McMahon telling his Smackdown superstars that he would fire them if they didn’t make it to the finals, which might lead us to believe a change in roster might happen eventually.
On Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez gave his take on the World Cup and mentioned a couple of likely outcomes. This is what he said:
“First off, yeah they could fire somebody and bring them to Raw. But I mean they could also just bring someone up from NXT. If they need someone to be slotted into a certain position they could get somebody. I don’t think you need to fire somebody from SmackDown when in less than a year SmackDown basically needs to be the A-Show.”
“Now I know that’s a long way from now and they can always do the draft and move over whoever they need to move over to SmackDown but there are 3 possibilities here. Possibility number 1 is that SmackDown is going to win because if you look at the Survivor Series card it’s going to be a bunch of Raw vs SmackDown matches and I think there’s virtually 0 chance that Becky Lynch is going to beat Ronda Rousey. I look at Braun Strowman and AJ Styles and unless Strowman runs really fast and bonks himself on the ring post and AJ gets in and wins via count-out I just can’t see Vince McMahon letting AJ Styles beat Braun Strowman.”
“That’s 2 championship matches won by the Raw side so you gotta throw SmackDown a bone. They’re gonna win the best in the world tournament.”
“The 3rd possibility which I believe someone on the board mentioned is that Shane McMahon is going to fire somebody and that’s who he’s going to wrestle at WrestleMania. The last thing I need is to see is Shane McMahon wrestling at WrestleMania but he’s Shane McMahon — you know there’s a good chance he’s probably going to be wrestling at WrestleMania and so that was their conclusion. That’s what’s going on here.”
We will have to wait and see how the World Cup plays out and what effect it will have on certain superstars.
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h/t to Ringside News for the transcription.
