pokoko on 04 December 2016
| d21lewis said: Man. When the brand split began, Smackdown had so much promise. Dean lost his edge. Cena vanished. AJ has been reduced to fighting James Ellsworth on a regular basis. Jack Swagger... What the hell ever became of him? Baron Corbin accomplished a whole bunch of nothing. Zack Ryder got paired up with Mojo. I love WWE. I actually loved Survivor Series and a lot of things going on before the split. I just can't figure out how they took all if that potential and all of these hungry young wrestlers and main event stars and killed my excitement. For a while, Smackdown was miles ahead of Raw in my eyes (and your eyes, too. I read this entire thread, today!). *shakes head* |
I think it mostly has to do with the lack of depth and the new PPV schedule, meaning they're really milking every feud to last months. I mean, two of Smackdown's biggest "draft picks" have barely wrestled, if at all, and they appear to have dropped Apollo Crews down the ladder after giving him absolutely nothing to work with.
Meanwhile, all the answers are in NXT but I suppose they're afraid of leaving NXT with nothing. RAW has talented guys they're barely using, even with the hour difference in run-time. I love to see Neville move to Smackdown, for instance.
