Smackdown ... what are they doing??

['Foretold' Joker]

Recently I haven't been watching smackdown as much ... mainly as it's on a Friday night and I have better things to do on Fridays.

Anyway having watched it for a couple of weeks, I have to ask what the hell is the Smackdown side of story telling doing exactly? Go back a year ago and Smackdown was clearly the better show, it had interest, excitment plus decent wrestling.

Now it is a mere shadow of this. For a start the wrong wrestlers are in the wrong tiers.

Currently this is how I see the roster ...

Main-Event is = Rey Mysterio, JBL, Kurt Angle, Undertaker

Upper-Midcard is = Booker T, Benoit, Finlay, Lashley, Great Khali & JBL.

Midcard is = Matt Hardy, Regal, Burchill, Tatanka Gunnar Scott & Road Warrior oh & (Simon Dean)

Tag Teams = Kendrick & London, Mexicools, half a Gymini, Vito & Nunzio

I'll ignore the Cruiserweights as that seems to be ok at the moment. whilst anyone elese isn't really Smackdown material.

Injured = Batista, the Boogeyman, One of the Gymini, Mr. Kennedy.

Other = Orton (suspended) Rey Mysterio (May need time off), Kurt Angle (also may need time off) JBL (May retire or go to RAW) MNM (split up due to backstage problems) Undertaker (Semi-retired) Benoit (Injured).



It's not looking too good is it. However all this could have been avoided. When Batista got injured they had a battle Royal to determine the next champion and we got Kurt Angle (who was on RAW?!) Instead they should have given it to Chris Benoit.

Benoit ... You IWC fanboy!! ... No not because the internet idolises him, but because he is already a Smackdown guy, so no need for a roster switch. He is a proven Champion already and can put on a good match with anyone. Benoit would then go through the routine we had up until Wrestlemania .. along with the rest so that storylines can come to an end.

so we get to about now ... here is what the Roster would look like with reasons why ....

Main-Event is =
Rey Mysterio (He's Champion but instead of working the 'walking with giants' story he has been building a decent storyline with Benoit off Wrestlemania after Benoit got screwed out of retaining by the now suspended Randy orton. Which led to there match at Judgement Day where Rey retained. Benoit now gets some time off to rest. Somewhere amidst all this Benoit turned Heel)

Chris Benoit (After working a decent feud over the title with Rey and Orton, Chris Benoit goes to get some time off (Mark Henry does the kayfabe injury job)

Kurt Angle (Remains on RAW, is not involved)

Undertaker (Undertaker finishes off his program with Orton, Has a single PPV match with Benoit same finish as the real Angle v Taker match and then on to his win over Henry at WM. Then continues on to his feud with Khali ... which we will get back to further down)

Booker T (Booker T remains the same as before he feuds with Boogeyman, wins the King of the Ring .. and is now King Booker. This ends up nicely for Booker as it gets him his shot at Mysterio's title which he wins at the next smackdown PPV opportunity. Rey then takes time off after this. Lashley is not involved with Booker because ... )

Upper-Midcard is =
JBL (... he is dealing with U.S champion JBL who is being aided by Finlay. JBL won the title before wrestlemania from Benoit thanks to interference from Randy Orton. the fued continues due to ...)

Finlay ( .... Finlay helping out JBL with the Lashley nuisance. Finlay though is himself feuding with Matt Hardy who isn't happy with his I like to fight attitude of cheating ...)

Lashley (... Leading to a friendly pairing of Lashley and Hardy v JBL and Finlay ... which in turn leads to a 4 way battle for the U.S title at the next smackdwon ppv)

Great Khali (Debuts the same, attacks the undertaker the same, loses to the undertaker at GAB by DQ. Davari unhappy gets Mark Henry to help and together they demolish the Undertaker ... )

Mark Henry (this prompts the largest tag team in Smackdown history as the Immovable Force! who after demolish some lower teams take the titles from the New Rockers Kendrick and London)

Regal (the wild card somehow becomes the next challenger to whoever wins the U.S title fatal fourway match with his latest no-pirate heritage protege Gunnar Scott)

Midcard
Burchill = remains a Pirate and does whatever he has been doing, except Regal ditches him alltogther.

Tatanka & Road Warrior (become a tag team called the Old Guard and represent everything that they stood for back in the early 90s)

Gunnar Scott is assigned with regal instead of Benoit.

Simon Dean teams up with his un-injured Gymini

Tag Teams

We now have a tag team divison of ... New Rockers (Kendrick and London (w/) J.Hall), Immovable Force (Henry & Khali (w/) Davari) Vito & Nunzio, The Mexicools, Symini (Simon Dean and one of the Gymini guys) The Old Guard (Tatanka & Road Warrior) & Noble + Kash.

Smackdown is potentially saved ... I'm sure there are some loopholes here .. but what do you guys think.

[shastamcnasty]

I'll add my thoughts to this based if the changes happened tomorrow...

- Mysterio should lose the belt solely based on the fact that he probably has one of the worst win/loss records as champion in wrestling history. Make him lose the title to Booker (since he's largely overdue for a title reign and he's the KOTR winner) and have him feud with Finlay after.

- Benoit can feud with Regal for a few weeks ending it in a submission match which Benoit wins. By that time, Booker is the champ and Benoit challenges to continue the 8 year long feud these two have.

- Kurt Angle needs time off to recuperate... Bring him back in a year.

- Undertaker does not appear until Summerslam and beats Khali. If Taker stays part time, he can just retire. If he goes full time, he can do something horrific to Khali after the match like crucify him on the Taker symbol and turn back to his super satanic ways. Then feud with Mysterio for some reason.

- Booker T beats Mysterio for the title at G.A.B. by cheating as usual... He then feuds with Benoit... Benoit wins the title at Summerslam.

- JBL is out contemplating retirement... If he comes back, he can feud with Lashley and insult "the black people" to quote Kurt Angle.

- Finlay can do his usual Irish beatdown feuds with Matt Hardy, Burchill and Tatanka. No real storyline, just gets heat from beating people up.

- Lashley can do his thing up until mid-June where either JBL comes back for his US title or Lashley feuds with Mark Henry. Either way, Lashley loses his US Title against Burchill once he ditches the pirate thing at Summerslam.

- Khali can keep speaking jibberish and beating up cruiserweights until Taker beats him at Summerslam, then he gets released. Daivari will be out for a month until the 2nd week of September when he comes back with a new wrestler to attack Benoit... MUHAMMAD HASSAN!!! AYELALEYALEYALAYLEALYEA!!!!

- Regal feuds with Benoit after Regal beats up Gunner Scott pretty badly. Regal loses to Benoit on Smackdown in a submission match (which is a candidate for MOTY!!!). Regal then appears on Smackdown 2 weeks later after Burchills loss (currently on a losing streak) and tells him this pirate thing isn't working. Burchill then becomes old Burchill and beats Lashley for the US title at Summerslam.

- Burchill goes on a losing streak until Late June when Regal convinces him not to be a pirate anymore. Burchill then goes on a warpath on cruiserweights (and Vito) before challenging Lashley for the US title at Summerslam. Burchill wins using not the C-4, but the Regal Stretch.

- Tatanka keeps his spot in the 3rd match on Velocity, beating up indy wrestlers.

- Gunner Scott gets into a fight with Regal and gets his ass kicked. He disappears for three weeks before getting into a match with Matt Hardy. It's a pretty good match and both wrestlers compliment each other on their performance the next week. They then have friendly matches on Smackdown/Velocity with various stipulations (Hardcore, Submission) before their Ladder match for... well, nothing at GAB. They then become a tag team, losing to Kendrick/London at Summerslam.

- Simon Dean is now Nova in EC dub

- Tag team and cruiserweights keep doing their thing...

[hil]

Not bad - You missed off Matt Hardy and a few others. A few people I would have in different sections of the card, but then again there are layers of midcard.

Much like with Show and Kane if you have 2 big dominant guys as a tag team they are gonna get the belts and hold them a long time, so I'm not keen but have wondered about it (stick one with Daivari as a partner and I think you have a good team as Daivari can be the team jobber).

['Foretold' Joker]

cheers for the feedback there ... I did mention Hardy just didn't give him his own section.

[starking18]

Batista, Orton and Kennedy should all be back in a couple weeks. You figure they all should play major roles.

[jaybee]

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