10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About 2019

10. SmackDown Hasn't Really Changed

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Before SmackDown debuted on FOX in October, there was serious buzz about how the show might become something fresh. FOX execs, fans reasoned, would surely look at their successful real-sports presentation elsewhere and force Vince McMahon (whom they'd be paying an absolute fortune) to change his ways.

Vinnie Mac might've replied, "No chance in hell, pal".

SmackDown hasn't really changed at all. The first episode was buoyed by excitement and hype, but it's been all business after The Rock returned to Hollywood and WWE decided to switch Brock Lesnar over to Monday nights. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results, then WWE need committed.

After all that chatter about change, the blue brand retains the same soap opera blend it did before trading Tuesdays for Fridays. The chance to do something genuinely different, and set SmackDown apart from Raw, has been spurned.

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