Notes on Who Ran Last Week's WWE Smackdown & Which Officials Were Absent


-- More notes from last week's Friday Night Smackdown. Bruce Prichard, who heads up the creative team, was not at the show as he was on vacation while Ed Koskey, who is also a prominent member on the team, was also away as he was "handling something", according to the Observer Newsletter. In theirplace Ryan Callihan and Mike Heller were joined by Dave Kapoor from NXT with Paul Levesque overseeing and having more influence than normal. Despite the absence of Prichard and Koskey, the show was said to have run "smoothly" backstage.