Was SmackDown a Bad Representation of the Full-Time Roster?
By Scott Keith on 5 October 2019
With the debut on Fox over with, I felt that the show tried too hard to show off nostalgia and the part-time wrestlers but didn’t do good job focusing on their current full-time roster. What do you think, am I just viewing it the wrong way?
There was definitely a lot of opportunity to show off the new guys that was wasted. Baron Corbin got BURIED by the Rock, which is fine for a goof like Ziggler but this is a top heel who you just spent months pushing to the King gimmick. Obviously we know how Kofi was treated. They focused on Roman a lot but that's a lost cause. Most of the real star power was in that 8 man tag that went 3:00 and was just a showcase for the boxer in the front row. Really felt like they could have made a statement by having Rick O'Shea and Ali go out there burn it down for 3:00 instead of Seth Rollins running away from the Fiend again.
Actually I was just thinking: Maybe Vince is gonna watch Aladdin and then have Ali starting being a prince from Ababwa and then make R-Truth hit his head and start thinking he's a genie. At least we'll have a few years before he catches up to that movie before it happens, though.