WWE Raw: 10 Things You Might Have Missed (May 30)

10. Selective Memory

Raw opened up with Shane and Stephanie McMahon addressing the WWE Universe about the huge news from last week - Smackdown is going live, each and every Tuesday evening.

That, of course, is the most superficial of the changes announced. The real news is that the brand split is coming back, and while the McMahons didn't mention that, The New Day did. The WWE Tag Team Champions expressed their concerns with the upcoming brand extension, and wanted to know if they'd end up split up. Of course, no answers were forthcoming, and the same was true when they asked who would run Smackdown.

The one thing that wasn't addressed in the segment, though, was the fact that WWE already had a brand extension, one that ran for nine years. That's a long time, and undoubtedly many of the fans who watch WWE today followed the product between 2002 and 2011.

WWE is always very protective of the way they portray their own history, and to be honest, remembering the last brand split probably isn't going to built anticipation for the next one. Still, it's a pretty huge omission for those of us who were there. While they did mention it later during a match with The Dudley Boyz, it was more of an afterthought than anything else.