10 Ways SmackDown Can Save WWE
1. Eating Defeat At Survivor Series
WWE have played so fast and loose with Survivor Series stakes over the years that a win for Monday Night Raw might not really make any difference at all, but it's all about how the company make results count after the fact rather than during the show itself.
The red brand's damaging loss in 2019 resulted in a Seth Rollins heel turn, but almost nothing else registered. 2020 pretty much didn't count after the show ended with a long and weird farewell to The Undertaker and it's legitimately weird that Raw was given a clean sweep over SmackDown in 2018 when neither the win nor the loss figured much into the action in the post-script.
Actual bragging rights from the show that's sold itself on nothing else for the last half a decade wouldn't just make the pay-per-view a little more interesting - it'd give the obvious secondary show reason to pretend it wasn't.