Cody Rhodes Diva
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Post by Cody Rhodes Diva on Jun 22, 2014 22:14:50 GMT -5
During the "Attitude Era" and the "WWE Brand Extension Years," Friday Night SmackDown was one of those must-see shows. It featured the likes of The Rock, Undertaker, Rey Mysterio, Edge, Kurt Angle, Eddie Guerrero, and JBL becoming the stars of the show.
Today with "WWE Brand Extension" nonexistent, it seems as if though all of the major storylines are featured on Monday Night RAW while SmackDown IMO has become another version of WWE Main Event and WWE Superstars with guys like John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Triple H, and Randy Orton rarely appearing on the show. Your thoughts?
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Post by BØRNS on Jun 22, 2014 22:16:48 GMT -5
Yep. Remember the brand-specific PPV's? There are a lot of things that are just really strange about WWE lately. Personally, I think roster segregation would increase the VALUE of the talent. Back in the day, low-carders actually wrestled competitive matches and feuded on TV. Today, they're lucky to job to the current unstoppable monster debut of the month. Seeing specific wrestlers on a specific show MAKES the viewers TUNE IN. When the only thing WWE cares about is Raw, then the ratings of their other shows will drop, which creates a negative feedback loop that demotivates them from producing anything watch-worthy on SD!/Main Event/Superstars.
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Post by Yayo on Jun 22, 2014 22:18:35 GMT -5
SmackDown's less important that Main Event at this point. Being taped and having no impact on any storylines (plus the constant video packages) destroyed Smackdown. There's still decent matches on there, but there isn't a show in the WWE that doesn't have at least one or two good matches anymore on a weekly basis
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 22:25:37 GMT -5
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Post by slappy on Jun 22, 2014 22:31:38 GMT -5
Once Smackdown was demoted to B show during the brand split, it never recovered. It's not like after the brand split ended Smackdown stopped mattering, it was long before that.
There may have been good wrestling or good storylines, it may have been better than Raw but it was still the B show.
Now, it may actually be the C show.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jun 22, 2014 22:32:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I loved Smackdown from 2009-2010. I thought it was comfortably better than Raw. I guess that time period is the exception though and not the rule, as that's about the only time period since 2005 where I thought Smackdown was actually good. It felt like the young guns show at that time and guys like JoMo, Hardy and Punk carrying the content was exactly what I wanted and needed. That really got me back into WWE after I lost so much interest between the 05-08 years and turned to TNA and ROH for sanctuary.
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Post by The Natural Eddy Valintino on Jun 22, 2014 22:32:45 GMT -5
I just thought of something Smackdown could do to make things more interesting. Why not build extra feuds using Smackdown. Let's say we have Cesaro and Sheamus have a feud over the United States Title and the feud takes place mostly on Smackdown with a few mentions on RAW. Another example, Big E isn't doing much on TV. Maybe have him and Titus O'Neil feud on Smackdown with also a few mentions on RAW. I know this may sound as if it's the brand split when I mention the feuds mostly taking place on Smackdown, but I think with the large amount of hours WWE currently has, they have more than enough time to have a lot of wrestlers doing something right now. They could have mostly mid card and upper card feuds on Smackdown while having guys like Orton, Cena, etc. on occasion to help draw tickets. That way, we could build future main eventers on Smackdown like Cesaro, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, etc. I'm not gonna say that going live is gonna fix things on Smackdown. Just have a few feuds that will mostly be mentioned on Smackdown and I think that would fix things on Smackdown and make Smackdown kind of watchable if we get to see fresh new feuds with people who barely do anything on TV now a days.
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Post by jayrod2009 on Jun 22, 2014 22:48:38 GMT -5
It needs to go back to Thursday Nights. People are too busy on Fridays.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 22, 2014 22:49:54 GMT -5
Smackdown was my favorite show during 2002-2003 and in 2009. They don't care about it anymore which sucks.
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Post by Joe/Smurf on Jun 22, 2014 23:12:51 GMT -5
Smackdown has been an afterthought to me since Eddie died. A shame, since I missed the S.E.S. Punk stuff and some other good stuff, but these days, Smackdown is literally about 50/50 new content to Raw recap or repeated matches. Even Main Event is more interesting since it's live on the Network.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Jun 22, 2014 23:14:24 GMT -5
I never understood the change to Friday nights. Like it was said above, people aren't going to stay at home on a Friday night to watch a wrestling show.
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Post by Self-Savior on Jun 22, 2014 23:45:36 GMT -5
If it was a live show and actually had matches that wouldn't be done again on Raw the following week, I think it would be better.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 0:25:53 GMT -5
Smackdown used to be my favorite show back when steph managed it
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 0:32:19 GMT -5
Haven't watched since 2010.
Get rid of it.
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Post by Jonathan Karate on Jun 23, 2014 2:11:49 GMT -5
I've literally only read smack down spoilers for at least two years. The show does not matter anymore.
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Post by Mox on Jun 23, 2014 2:27:11 GMT -5
Shame a lot of people aren't watching because it's been pretty good recently. A lot of content that furthers the story lines, surprisingly.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 2:50:23 GMT -5
I haven't sat down in front of my TV and watched a SmackDown from beginning to end since January 2004. I was in seventh grade then.
However, there have been things I have seen since then that I have enjoyed. JBL's stuff in late '04 and early '05 was, to me, one of the best times in SD history.
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Post by Captain Charisma on Jun 23, 2014 3:25:20 GMT -5
thought last week's 4 vs 3 main event was good, cept for the predictable ending.
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Post by Evil Abed on Jun 23, 2014 4:32:32 GMT -5
thought last week's 4 vs 3 main event was good, cept for the predictable ending. Agreed, last weeks show was the best in a while mainly because it actually featured everyone. I'd personally love to see them go back to the way it was immediately following the initial brand split in 2002. The WWE World Heavyweight Champion wrestles on both shows, while Raw has the IC and Tag Titles, and SD has the US and Divas Titles. It would make mid card guys like Dolph/Kofi/Miz and others seem relevant again. |
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Jun 23, 2014 4:39:09 GMT -5
Smackdown got pretty bad in 2010 when it became the B show.
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