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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 10:46:46 GMT -5
People complain about part timers like Lesnar and Goldberg winning the title but we're all forgetting about the current SD Tag team champions.
Now seriously what is it with the booking of these guys? Ever since they have won the titles they rarely appear and regularly miss weeks of Smackdown.
How are the American Alpha suppose to get over if they're constantly missing weeks and jobbers like Mojo Rawley manage to score TV time?
People act like Smackdown is a flawless show but at times the booking can be mediorcre. IMO the show should get no more stars until they manage to sort out the roster.
Atleast Raw can regularly feature guys who are important.
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Post by ClashOfStyles on Mar 18, 2017 11:07:50 GMT -5
Sometimes the show is just so full that they don't have space for the tag team champions, but do have time for Crews, Kalisto, Mojo, and Hawkins. As far as people acting like SD is flawless, that's absolutely true. The same goes for the NXT weekly show. Once they move Roman to Smackdown and AJ to RAW, everybody will be saying RAW is better and SD sucks. That's just the way the IWC is.
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Post by Mr Wrestling Jr. on Mar 18, 2017 11:10:38 GMT -5
I don't think WWE actually knows that Alpha are champions. Barely in the SmackDown intro, no title renders on the website, and we rarely see them. Simply they won the titles WAAAAAAAAAAYYY too early. I don't think a majority of the fans were fully behind them and they won out of nowhere when everyone was expecting a buildup of them as well as a long reign for the Wyatt's. Just give the Usos the titles already and bring some meaning back to the titles.
Or back to HEATH SLATER AND RHYNO BAYBAY!
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Post by SmithyPlayz on Mar 18, 2017 11:26:40 GMT -5
I agree, RAW has been so good recently but yet fans think Smackdown is better. Smackdown and RAW both have the same issues of the same matches every week but people only complain when RAW do it.
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Post by IRS on Mar 18, 2017 11:26:41 GMT -5
It's not just American Alpha - the tag division as a whole is pretty much the weakest part of SDL. When the split first came about, it was featured pretty well, but as several feuds have started to develop over the past few months, they just haven't had much time for the tag team scene.
You can only do so much with two hours, and SDL has decided to focus much of their attention on the main event and mid-card lately. It'll likely change after WM season.
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Post by xtremebadass on Mar 18, 2017 11:33:34 GMT -5
WWE can't manage all those championships they have now. Impossible to give them all equal time and it is now obvious what they think of the SD tag belts. Wyatts had no business winning them btw.
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Post by TheChamp420 on Mar 18, 2017 12:37:25 GMT -5
I feel like SD has to many gimmick Tag Teams
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Post by BØRNS on Mar 18, 2017 13:06:16 GMT -5
I think the problem is that they're trying to keep the entire division afloat and fresh. I havent noticed they've been missing, and they're often featured on talking smack so I think they're getting plenty of exposure. Maybe they just don't want more champions getting injured before mania? I'm sure after mania they'll hit the ground running. And possibly the biggest problems of the non-split era was overexposure of half the roster while the other half was NEVER on TV. So I think everyone's currently in a better place.
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Post by BØRNS on Mar 18, 2017 13:10:57 GMT -5
Plus American Alpha main-evented SD this week and they have before...
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Post by robbutler01 on Mar 18, 2017 13:26:56 GMT -5
I stick by my original thoughts from the first brand split years ago.
1 world, 1 women's and 1 tag team champion that defends across both shows and then the US and IC titles are one to each show brand exclusive. Should make those belts more prestigious and the main belts aren't so over saturated by having two of each in the same company. That way American alpha (or the club depending on who they went with as champs) would travel from show to show and potentially get used more effectively as they would be the focal point of both shows tag rosters.
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Post by Yayo on Mar 18, 2017 13:47:54 GMT -5
Hell, the WWE champion hasn't even been there Live for the past two weeks. Smackdown is all kinds of confusing lately
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Post by bababooey on Mar 18, 2017 13:48:03 GMT -5
American Alpha's main problem is they have no real competition. The heel turn seemed to be a nice refresher for the Usos, but they got lame and stale again surprisingly fast. The rest of the tag division is just jobbers. Good teams, but they just can't be considered a threat with the way they're booked. The whole tag division on Smackdown just seems defeated. All of them just look like they're going through the motions.
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Post by marino13 on Mar 18, 2017 14:21:32 GMT -5
I agree. The SD tag team scene is atrocious and American Alpha is suffering from it. They need to call up the Revival. Repackage The Fashion Police. Start doing something with the Vaudevillians. And maybe even move New Day to SD. Give the whole division a kick-start.
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Post by Rude Awakening on Mar 18, 2017 14:50:29 GMT -5
Raw has been great lately and it may be because of the part timers that people complain about all the time.
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Post by J12 on Mar 18, 2017 15:02:51 GMT -5
There's only one other legitimate tag team on Smackdown - The Usos. They just burned their big tag match on Smackdown with no hype, and interrupted it multiple times with Shane McMahon. That tag scene is a complete mess.
Smackdown has been an a steady downhill slope since right after the Rumble, which, interestingly enough, was when it was rumored that Brian James replaced Ryan Ward as head writer.
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Post by cableV on Mar 18, 2017 15:05:28 GMT -5
After WrestleMania, Smackdown will correct itself as Vince Mcmahon goes back to being less involved with Smackdown. Vince ramps up his involvement in Smackdown during the co-branded PPVs and Smackdown suffers as a result.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 15:10:22 GMT -5
Whether it's 'Smackdown is better than Raw' or 'Raw is better than Smackdown' doesn't interest/faze me in the slightest, because it's still WWE at the end of the day.
That's the way they present their product and everyone who views it is conditioned to think 'this is how it is.' That's fair enough I guess.
Having said that, I do enjoy their matches against The Usos...they have great chemistry IMO.
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Post by cordless2016 on Mar 18, 2017 15:22:39 GMT -5
I'm fine with them and other top guys not appearing live every week. It makes them more special since their appearances are more spaced out. Reminds me of the 80s and early 90s when we could go weeks before seeing top guys like Taker appear live.
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Post by weaseltv on Mar 18, 2017 15:45:09 GMT -5
I agree. The SD tag team scene is atrocious and American Alpha is suffering from it. They need to call up the Revival. Repackage The Fashion Police. Start doing something with the Vaudevillians. And maybe even move New Day to SD. Give the whole division a kick-start. watch the Fashion police get repackaged.. with Fandango taking on more of a biker look... and Darren Young joins the team... then later in the year the Drifter joins the team... but changes his look to more of a construction worker.... at Survivor series they will tease Tatanka as the 5th man... but it will be nixed... |
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Post by The Brain on Mar 18, 2017 15:56:28 GMT -5
All they need is one set of tag belts. Having 2 sets is overkill IMO.
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