Backstage News on Raw Retaliating on Smackdown, It Could Happen This Week

– It was previously reported that the Smackdown #UnderSiege backstage angle was taped earlier in the day. The Smackdown wrestlers were told to really “lay in” to the attacks on RAW superstars to make it look as “physically brutal” as possible. There was a lot of editing, to remove anything that didn’t look real enough.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE could film a Raw retaliation angle this week. Raw has a show in Birmingham at the same time as Smackdown takes place in Manchester. The cities are 87 miles apart, so they could easily do a pre-tape since the Raw crew will be in Manchester the night before. The retaliation can’t take place on live show until the November 14th event in Charlotte.