DISCUSSION - How can Smackdown become a BETTER show in your OPINION?

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Originally Posted by HBK 1. Put the title on Undertaker. 2. No more women in the ring (this applies to both shows) 3. GO LIVE <---(most important) That's all I can think of.

1. No
2. Hell No (being applied to both shows)
3. EH-EHHHH....!!!! WHAT?

Smackdown took the right route, by shipping the misplaced Nidia (one who can actually wrestle) to RAW. That way, the women's division can get developed a little more. It isn't a Japanese technical-fest in there, but I don't mind it. Victoria and others rule. Torrie Wilson, and company ought to not have too many matches... and for the most part, SmackDown isn't ever having many women's matches since the real woman wrestlers got shipped to where they belong... the RAW brand.

Put the title on Taker? No way, not now...that'd be straight up HHH-ing the show at this point. Right now, with Undertaker being the "attraction" of Smackdown, looming outside of the TV cameras, is actually kind of cool.

and what the heck would Smackdown going live do, except suppress spoilers on the net? With UPN's first-hour beeping...which I'm now used to thanks to the "PTC" era of Smackdown....it still wouldn't be that much cooler. It'd be the equivalent of trying to polish a turd.

All that needs to happen is this:

1. Utilize the Cruiserweights properly, like they did at the onset of the original brand split. No more of these ridiculous one-shot title changes. There are tons of people in this division...work on giving them personalities, and you'll have a Rey, a Paul London, a whoever...to get the people to watch. They already let Spanky (who I felt was a nice Jericho/Spike fusion) slip through their fingers...
how about a Funaki push? Crowds seem to have wanted to see this guy succeed since the "EEEEEVIL" days of Kaientai...

2. Stop taking the cheap route. If you want new heels...look at your unused roster instead of rehashing. The only examples of this I've seen are Rene Dupree (thank goodness he escaped La Resistance/Quebecers '04), and they seem to be building Mark Jindrak into another midcard role....Bradshaw into JBL also seems to work, but not at the main event.

3. Don't let too many of the talent go to RAW...and some talent (Hurricane, anyone?) really needs to head back to SmackDown.

Besides these gripes, there is a lot of potential good in SmackDown...but there are some things that really need to be pushed aside. A lot of WWE fans are getting a little tired of the unecessary swerves, and so on.

Booker T's on-screen gripe about being shipped to the minor leagues was a GREAT move...and since his initial face run, this is the best I've seen Booker T...he can be a steady work in progress. At last, a heel who doesn't run from his opposition unless all other recourses have been exhausted.

Kurt Angle...whenever he's on TV, it's a good thing. Too bad he might be leaving...for who knows how long.

I think a lot of the new talent should go straight to SmackDown, as the author of this thread suggested, as RAW already has enough new faces to keep things interesting.

SmackDown! is suffering, but the answer to most of their woes are right under the noses of those in charge.

Ditching the brand extension is not the solution... in fact, it could accelerate WWE's way to total sucktitude. Too many wrestlers, competing for one belt...the brand extension was the best way to solve it. Even though the UPN/Spike TV distribution levels are pretty disparate, it's still the best way... they really are two different shows. And it really does seem like they are in competition with one another... that was the point, wasn't it? Problem is, there's just too much imbalance between the two. That's the only problem, as I see it.