As noted on Wednesday, WWE was forced to change their taping schedule due to ‘organizational issues.’
Because of this, only one episode of Smackdown was taped this week. The August 14 Smackdown and the August 17 episode of RAW will be taped on August 13, keeping the crew at the Performance Center an extra day than planned.
Dave Meltzer noted on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio that while it’s unknown exactly why things happened the way they did, several ‘key’ people on Smackdown were scripted into the show but the show was ‘torn apart’ and redone, same as this week’s Raw.
The call to make the changes was made late Monday. Because of the issues on Monday it was a ‘complete mess’ on Tuesday.
