10 Ways SmackDown Live! Can Recover Before 2018
3. Nowhere Men
Somehow becoming an even more deadly patch of quicksand than Monday Night Raw's third hour, the SmackDown Live! undercard is inarguably bottom of the main roster pile.
In November 2001, Mick Foley cut a largely forgotten, embittered promo on Monday Night Raw about the overall state of the company's direction at large, noting that titles changed hands with such frequency that the belts no longer mattered and those without straps held even less value. Regrettably, nearly 16 years later, this can now be applied to nearly every superstar.
It has taken some time and something resembling effort, but WWE have made just about every non-title match they present on television or pay-per-view completely irrelevant. There are exceptions, of course. But a) most of those exceptions are on Raw and b) a healthy majority of those involve Braun Strowman.
Aiden English, Tye Dillinger, The Colons, Erick Rowan, Luke Harper, The Hype Bros, Dolph Ziggler Sami Zayn and Sin Cara may as well not exist, so pointless that they currently are in the happy smiley fantasy land curated by Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan. The Ascension survive, bizarrely, through their role as the Fashion Police's comedic foil, and Baron Corbin's career could frankly still go either way after his John Cena-infused humbling either side of SummerSlam.
SmackDown Live! should use 'em or lose 'em, for the benefit of fans and the failing superstars themselves.