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SmackDown! is the best wrestling show on television, in my opinion.
Everything clicks on SmackDown!. I actually get caught up in it. JBL is the best colour commentator in the world today, Paul London & Brian Kendrick do stuff, you have impressive big men in Bobby Lashley and Sylvester Terkay (give me them over Umaga anyday) and Finlay and William Regal are so good in the ring it's not funny.
People complain about guys like William Regal never getting a push because the main event if full, but then he does and "SmackDown! has been forced to push mid-carders". Talent is allowed to be talent on SmackDown!, and I love it that way.
The only black spot of SmackDown! is the waste of space certain performers provide. The Undertaker need never waste my time with his ring intro, again. I will be able to live if they cut down on Vito's shenanigans, as well. A KC James and Idol Stevens squash of two jobbers with London & Kendrick then coming out to brawl would have been much better television. I like Vito, but his character is going nowhere. He needs direction and fast.
On a week-by-week basis, SmackDown! survives. Storylines are actually told by the matches (see Tatanka's recent losing streak) and it doesn't feel like a repeat every week. There are no McMahons, also. Montell Vontavious Porter shall be debuting soon, and Chris Benoit can't be too far off from returning, nor can Paul Burchill. I expect SmackDown! to get a very interesting place in coming months.
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