Posted on 8/24/126 by Colin Vassallo
WWE will have double Raw and Smackdown television tapings
this week, both tonight and this coming Friday.
Tonight’s show in Ottawa, Canada will be followed by a
Smackdown tapings and due to this, Raw will kick off live at
6PM ET worldwide, two hours earlier than usual. The
Smackdown tapings will then air this Friday night on USA
Network in the U.S. and Netflix everywhere else.
Then on Friday, August 28, WWE will once again run a double
taping, starting with Raw first and then Smackdown at the
Rocket Arena in Cleveland. That Raw taping airs on Monday,
August 31 in its usual 8PM time slot on Netflix and then the
Smackdown tapings airs on Friday, September 4.
There will be no live events of any kind between Monday,
August 31 and Saturday, September 5, with WWE returning live
on Sunday, September 6 with Sunday Night’s Main Event.
The break is mainly for Labor Day week and also before a
busy few weeks with the South American tour and the return
of non-televised live events in October and November.