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It was always going to be an uphill battle for those in-charge of SmackDown, given the way the Draft had been shaped with Raw getting 3 picks for every 2 SmackDown picks which meant that SmackDown would have to get in their big picks as soon as possible.
They did what they could and even though they got WWE Champion Dean Ambrose, AJ Styles, Cena and Orton as their top stars, it isn’t an ideal situation especially when you have an eye out for the future.
Out of the four previously mentioned Superstars, three of them are 36 or older while Cena is looking to become more of a part time performer while Orton is injury prone. They do also have Bray Wyatt, but they’ll have to build him up and give him some credibility first.
The tag-team division and the women’s division on SmackDown on the other hand are totally threadbare. If American Alpha hadn’t gotten drafted to SmackDown, that tag divison was on the verge of being irrelevant with all the big tag-teams like The New Day, Enzo and Cass and The Club going to Raw.
The women’s division is basically Becky Lynch with lesser players supporting her. Even though Becky being on SmackDown is good for her, because she’s the #1 women’s wrestler on the show, the division as a whole depends on the success of NXT call ups Alexa Bliss and Carmella, who are a little inexperienced.
The midcard, consisting of the likes of Corbin, Ziggler and Del Rio, is also stale beyond imagination. Calling up Mojo Rawley isn’t going to change that. How the likes of Apollo Crews and Cesaro aren’t on SmackDown to balance out the midcard is as baffling as the kayfabe NXT ‘call ups’ which ignored the likes of Bayley, Nakamura and Joe.
