Ever since the WWE brand extension in 2002, Smackdown has been the lesser show, the B-show, while RAW has continued to be the flagship show, live every Monday night. The addition of WWEs version of ECW in 2006 created a third, C-show, finally giving Smackdown something to feel superior to. In April, WWE announced that Smackdown, which had made its home at Syfy since 2010, would be moving to USA in 2016. Since the announcement, theres been a degree of speculation as to what form Smackdown will take after the move. What exactly does Smackdown have to offer USA aside from a two hour block of wrestling programming with the usual problematic advertising issues? The sad fact is that Smackdown has been virtually worthless for a very long time. With the end of the brand extension, theres been nothing unique about Smackdown far from it. Of late, safe, apathetic booking has resulted in the show spending about a quarter of its running time recapping RAW, and the remainder of the time running rehashes of matches that the audience have already seen. Rarely does anything of note happen on Smackdown, and as far as the continuity of WWEs angles and storylines go, the show could be taken off the air tomorrow and nothing would be affected. With the move to USA, scuttlebutt (like gossip in a better time slot) has it that there may be some significant changes made to Smackdown to improve the show and shore up ratings. Now, the USA network has carried Monday Night RAW for nineteen of its twenty-three years on the air: they lived through the Monday Night Wars and the Attitude Era with the WWF, saw RAW expand to two hours, then three and go from a live show in every four to a live show every week, and theyve experienced the massive fluctuation in ratings that comes with the peaks and troughs in pro wrestling. Theyre used to the McMahons and WWE theyre not worried about change. Well, here are a few novel ideas some that should be pretty obvious, others far more out of left field as to how the WWE office could not only improve Smackdown, but make it a genuinely unique slice of WWE programming. Lets see how far theyre prepared to go