10 Ways The Brand Split Has Changed WWE (One Year On)
8. Sharing The Spotlight
One of the byproducts of having such a gigantic talent pool is that the writers feel obliged to cram as many of these wrestlers onscreen as possible. This has resulted in a considerable shift away from individual one on one rivalries to larger, multi-person storylines, with the SmackDown women’s division experiencing a particularly significant downturn.
Sure, SmackDown’s writers do a good job of getting their women on television, but they’ve been locked into overcrowded angles for much of the year. It’s impossible to stand out when you’re forced to share a scene with five or six other people at once, and while the likes o Becky Lynch were once standard-bearers, they’ve become faceless since this practice became the norm.
Nobody gets to show any personality when they’re booked in clusters, and nobody gets over. These stories are shallow, bland, and uncreative, with no consequences for the winners and losers, and little variation from angle to angle.
It’s worth mentioning that if it weren’t for this tactic, WWE would be paying even more wrestlers to sit at home twiddling their thumbs, but if they hadn’t been so overzealous in bringing new faces to the roster, neither of these problems would exist.