10 Changes WWE Should Make To SmackDown Live On FOX

As people have pointed out for years, the problem with WWE's style of interviews and promos is how artificial and overwritten they are. Whether it's over-produced sets for backstage interviews, the forced dialogue in selfie promos, or just the general contrived nature of in-ring talk shows and contract signings, nothing really feels spontaneous.

To give SmackDown a more sports-like vibe on FOX, WWE should take cues from New Japan and UFC and have big press conferences. Whether it's Conor McGregor's antics or the electric air of New Japan's G1 pressers, press conferences offer an unpredictability factor that could give superstars personality as well as importance. Instead of a hokey setup where there's a table in the middle of a ring with a big folder that for some reason only has one piece of paper with "CONTRACT" written on it, you could have all the superstars that are in feuds together for a massive press conference.

That would allow various storylines to intersect and, if there's an insistence on having a post-conference fracas, plenty of bodies to get in on the action. Ultimately though, it would just be a different way of presenting things that would make the product feel fresh and new.