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Originally Posted by XL
There’s even less opportunity for a Harper/Curtis given the “Wildcard” set up has Reigns in 3 feuds at the minute. Former US champs Nakamura and Rusev haven’t been on TV for 4 weeks. Buddy Murphy is yet to debut on SDL following the Shake Up. As is Chad Gable. And Liv Morgan. And Mickie James. And Apollo Crews - who somehow appeared on Raw as a Wildcard but is yet debut on his new “home”. Same for Heavy Machinery. Eric Young made his Raw debut scrambling to pick up the lowest of lower card titles - and failing. A segment that also gave Cedric Alexander his second appearance - and 2nd loss.
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Its basically the same problems that lead to the downfall of the 1st Brand Split Era. Back then it was a mix of Vince and/or Creative becoming way too complacent after Cena (and Orton) were established as top stars and neglecting everything else including belts. Worst was Vince's paranoia when it came to Cena losing any merch sales which knee capped a lot of real big pushes for others.
Near the end of it, they had to loosen up the brand split rules because of the lack of big new stars on the brands, especially Smackdown. People who befitted before suddenly got less time and those who could have benefited were neglected as usual.