Get rid of SmackDown

[khali]

As others said, getting rid of the show or moving it to the network would be stupid since they make a lot of money from it.

Smackdown used to be relevant and can be again. I think the biggest thing they have to change is the constant repeat matches. It's a big enough annoyance on Raw, but at least Raw has major angles. When Smackdown has no major angles and the same matches, then there's no point in watching.

[mizerable]

Sept 4, 2014 20:56:00 GMT -5 Juice said:

Sept 4, 2014 20:48:28 GMT -5 mizerable said:

Smackdown died in 2005 once they decided that it only served to backburner guys. The move to Friday was the burning of the corpse. The brand split ending was the pissing on the ashes.

I really couldn't disagree more with this. Smackdown always served up great matches with those "backburner" guys. I have always preferred smackdown/wwecw to raw.

I'm not even talking match quality. That's something I can always keep up with later if I need to. The lack of real substance over the last decade had been felt on both Raw and Smackdown, but especially Smackdown when they raided the talent. I didn't enjoy guys like Edge or Batista nearly as much as I did on Raw. Any time I tried to get into someone, they moved them. There's always exceptions to the rule in terms of enjoyment, but if WWE treats the show as second class, then I'm not going to worry myself about it. As noted before, nothing significant happens on Smackdown, which the argument could be made during the brand extension, but not anymore. When the WWE title was on Smackdown (not counting the Triple H garbage), at least it seemed like the the two titles were equal, but when they sent Batista to Smackdown, I started to see the lack of care WWE took. The move to Friday as well also was dull considering the last thing I want to do on a Friday night is watch TV.

So I'm not arguing match quality, but everything else was lacking. And if everything else is lacking, I have no reason to keep up with it.

[boogeyman]

This attitude of "i don't watch it cancel it" makes no sense

So the new "season" is starting and smackdown is moving to thursday against football, big bang theory, nba, and the world series.

The way i see it wwe will need to amp up and ramp up smackdown so it retains viewers and gains more.

There's tons of potential to use smackdown to make money. It's up to wwe to present smackdown as important

[mrbananagrabber]

There's always some good matches on Smackdown. Ambrose and Cesaro had a f***ing amazing match just a few weeks ago. OK, it doesn't have the shenanigans of Raw, but it's still pretty good. I would be sad to see it go.

[audiencewatching]

Its such a shame that I have to agree

[Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal]

So glad the majority of you don't own a wrestling company, let alone WWE.

I think if I'm offered tens of millions of dollars to produce a wrestling show per year, probably gonna happily do that.

[TGM]

I miss the brand split so much.

[sonofblaine]

Sept 4, 2014 20:54:08 GMT -5 mrjl said:

If you don't like it just watch something else. I like having another night of wrestling to watch. You obviously feel you wouldn't miss anything storyline wise. And it's not like it'd give them another night off, they'd just have another house show

Agreed. Nothing huge happens opn it, but we get some fun matches featuring guys that are jobbed out or not used at all on RAW. Never got the total hate and people saying tyhat it should go away. If nothing important happens on it and there's no reason to watch it, then don't watch it.

I watch RAW on Tuesday and sometimes Wednesday mornings, Main Event (which is only about 25-30 minutes after I skip RAW recaps) on Wed or Thursday, NXT on Friday, Superstars (again about 25 - 30 minutes) on Fri or Sat, and all weekend to fit in Smackdown at some point, if I don't watch it Saturday morning (often, I tag on Superstars as the Smackdown curtain jerk show). Then, if I want more wrestling at any point, I watch Attitude episodes. I don't need to watch Main Event, Superstars and Smackdown to keep up with the bigger stories, but I do because I love wrestling and the more the merrier.

I don't see how taking Smackdown away will do anything, other than take away time from some lower-midcard guys that some people want to see in more than a 3 minute squash that's just meant as a reason for the squasher to be in the ring so his current rival can come out and jump him.

[sonofblaine]

Sept 4, 2014 22:15:51 GMT -5 boogeyman said:

They should use it to push guy who never get time on raw

Just use the midcarders and sheamus in a prominent role.

Brand split. We need it. Raw needs to drop that hour.

You know, I've never been a fan of the brand split, but you make a good point. If instead of splitting the brand with equal, huge main eventers on either side, you actually had upper-midcard to Main Event on RAW, then lower midcard and below on Smackdown, with the US title and sometimes IC title on it, instead of its own equal World Title, I'd actually like that alot.

[Kaysie]

It just needs to have somewhat of a change really.

Brand split is probably unlikely to happen again, but surely instead of recapping raw they could use the time to build up new stars? Perhaps treating it as a B show wouldn't be a terrible idea. They could bring up some NXT guys there first and still make it seem a big deal when they debut on raw. Like it used to be a big deal when someone got drafted to raw , or it seemed that way.

Obviously some like Rusev worked better going straight to raw, but some of the others probably could do with getting known outside of NXT and getting a chance to get over before being put on the "flagship show"

[Deleted]

They've got the roster to keep things fresh on Raw and Smackdown. If someone isn't used on Raw,,use them on Smackdown. If someone is on Raw, try not to use them on Smackdown, or at least not in as large a role, or vice versa.

It just takes some creativity, they've got enough talent to do it. The 3rd hour of Raw makes it way harder though.

[boogeyman]

Not really i mean tons of guys just work superstars/main event

With an influx of nxt guys a split would be great

Just don't call it a split

Like how wcw used thunder

[kevin]

Getting rid of the highest rated cable show on Fridays for no reason would be insane.

[Jeff Mangum PI]

Canceling it would make no sense at all, but Smackdown has no purpose. It's not live, it's not on network television, there's no brand split so there's no wrestlers that you have to watch SD to see, the matches aren't raved about as much as they used to be, the crowd's aren't as hot, etc.

WWE's never gonna cancel it so long as it keeps making them millions, but for the love of god I really wish they would at least give it a purpose.

[Professor Chaos]

Smackdown is often a better show than RAW.