Details On Reason For Upcoming Smackdown Double Taping

WWE is giving people more time off.

This past Monday night WWE held a double taping for Monday Night RAW. No reason was given as to why they did the double tapings and they have another one coming up. The November 22nd Smackdown will be a double tapings with WWE pre-tapings the final Smackdown before Survivor Series. We now know why they are doing that,

According to Dave Meltzer on Observer Radio, Meltzer stated that the reason for the November 22nd Smackdown is because of Thanksgiving. The following week is Thanksgiving and WWE wanted to make sure people who wanted to spend it with their families could. Typically if you are working a Friday Smackdown you fly out the day before Thursday. With Thursday, November 28th being Thanksgiving they did not want people to have to fly out on that day. Instead, they will fly out Friday to be at Survivor Series that on Saturday, November 30.

It is great to see WWE doing things like this and the hope is they do more of this as far as giving people in the company a little more time off as opposed to in the past when they were on the road more than they were home. We know starting next year WWE is cutting back the number of weekend live events in a big way which is also great to see.