| Why feel sorry for Smackdown?
Why are people feeling sympathetic for Smackdown? All I'm hearing is frikkin lame excuses for why it's crap from people saying "Angle and Batista are still benched, Orton's been banned, they've not got the quality on the show"
I say that's a big pile of crap. They've got all the quality they need to have a superb little show and if the writers are using the above as an excuse for the crappiness to Vince he should see through it rightaway.
This is a show that has -
Booker T - who's been gold for the last few months and back to top form
Chris Benoit - in recent times a World Champion and main eventer two years ago at Mania who is without an angle on the show
Undertaker - a still very worthwhile performer. Oh he has an angle.....with a 9 foot greenhorn, so he's completely wasted at a time they need him
JBL - currently partaking in a cheap knock off of the same feud he had with Eddie where they have him virtually saying the same lines he did back then about latinos
Matt Hardy - Superover when he went there over six months back. Major pops at Mania. Done nothing since
MNM - Been there a year and still looking for opponents to be bought in to take them to the next level
Finlay & Lashley - Having a great feud and in excellent bang up matches with each other. Rather than keep it going (it's simple and it works after all) why not ridicule it by bringing in a leprochaun
ReyRey - Good US title type guy, booked way over his head and, even then, they can't let him win on free tv!!
Regal, Burchill - Could have been a good master and apprentice feud. But, well....someone thought a pirate would be better
Gregory Helms - Whatever happened to that nice little angle of him being the outsider from Raw taking their belt. Good idea but they lost patience with it after one week and now they once again have a cruiser champ who is a good competitor who they don't know what to do with. Noble, Kash, Crazy, London all totally underutilised potential feuds.
This is the most frustrating bit about the show. It has lots of talent, still has even now with some performers out.....but what do I see if I switch on this show? Mark Henry, Great Khali, some crap about Tatanka?? |