10 Ways To Make WWE Smackdown A ‘Must-See’ Show Again

10. Go Live

Super Smackdown Live Unlike Raw€™s live show, the action on Smackdown is three days old by the time it airs. The taped nature of the show often leads to not a lot of major developments taking place. Maybe this in part due to the nature of the internet €“ Vince McMahon might still have flashbacks of Eric Bischoff reading spoilers of taped Raws in the 90s €“ and a desire to not have a major angle revealed on the web on Tuesday night. Going live would help alleviate that concern and give Smackdown the same feel of unpredictability, a belief that €œanything can happen€ on a live program. It€™s also painfully obvious when you hear the canned crowd noise that you€™re not dealing with a live reaction. Unfortunately, given WWE€™s belt-tightening these days, doing live shows every Monday and Friday is not feasible. They tape Smackdown the night after Raw for a reason, and it€™s dollars and cents. However, that€™s not to say that WWE couldn€™t decide to do a live special every once in a while. Maybe they spring for a live show if the occasion is right, or they work it out with Syfy to move Smackdown to live on Tuesday for a week.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.