WWE Payback Almost Sold Out; New Smackdown Talent Doing Five Shows Per Week

  • WWE Payback is not yet sold out but is expected to be a sell out by this weekend, which would be considered impressive due to how high ticket prices were.

  • The old Raw and Smackdown rosters are actually scheduled to remain effect for this weekend and 4/23 is supposed to be the last day before all the lineups are changed.

  • What this means is that the Smackdown-to-Raw taent like Miz, Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt are doing three shows per week (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) while the Raw-to-Smackdown talent like Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn and Charlotte are having to do five (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday).

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