10 Worst Ever WWE Superstar Brand Switches 

#9 Chris Benoit To SmackDown - 2005

World Champion to United States Champion

When Chris Benoit made his return to WWE SmackDown in 2005, he would spend the last two years of his life becoming a 3 time WWE United States Champion and had memorable feuds and matches with Booker T, Fit Finlay, MVP and others.

So looking at it that way, it seems like his transfer from RAW to SmackDown worked out pretty well. And while there have certainly been wort draft switches, as you will read here, this one still makes the list because it still was a step down from how the Rapid Wolverine had been treated on RAW.

After a great year and a half run on SmackDown the first time around from August 2002 until January 2004, which included some of the best matches of his career, occasional WWE Championship matches and along with Kurt Angle being the inaugural WWE Tag Team Champions (the titles on RAW today), Chris Benoit won the 2004 Royal Rumble and jumped to RAW.

During his year and a half on RAW, Benoit would win the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XX, frequently defeat Triple H and Shawn Michaels, beat other top RAW players like Chris Jericho, Edge, Kane and the other members of Evolution and remain the main event player until he was drafted. So while Benoit didn't have the worst treatment after returning 'home' to SmackDown, it was still a major step down from his status on RAW.