6 Ups & 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (25 Oct)
1. Crossed Wires
Nikki Cross is SmackDown's top babyface now as yet another supposed title challenger moves into the role by virtue of doing nothing and/or being the default selection. And more's the pity too - Cross is hardworking and well-liked by a portion of the audience, but none of it means anything when so few of the characters seem to actually exist or act like real human beings.
Sonya Deville lit a small fire in her corner of the internet with a quality promo earlier this week at the expense of half of the division, but it didn't matter a jot on SmackDown because it's simply not her turn. The wires controlling the division were so painfully visible that nothing mattered. Not Cross' pedestrian victory over Mandy Rose, not the total lack of Alexa Bliss to help refine her act, not Bayley and Sasha Banks' broadly enjoyable critique of her from commentary.
Give Deville's promo a click there - she's bang right in both her assessment of the quality of the female league and the fact that it's being put out to pasture at the moment. Every single performer that shared the screen here deserved better than what they received in this segment.