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Old 06-08-2018, 07:57 PM   #289
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SmackDown feels like a lame duck show. Sure, they've got some great talent there, but what the fuck are they doing? AJ Styles is too stupid to wear a cup; Nakamura is funny as a heel, but that shouldn't be the point; Samoa Joe is great at talking, but that seems to be all he does; Bryan is plugged into a program with Big Cass.

It's the same gentrified product as Raw, with no one allowed to stand out and run, therefore no one is really over and they aren't going to compel people to watch. In addition to that, SmackDown has been treated like the secondary show forever. When the brand extension was over, they would just run shit on SmackDown as a trial for Raw. It's appealing to internet fans because it seems "other" because it hasn't been a priority for WWE and people like to think of it as the "workrate show" or as some sort of underdog.
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