2 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Jan 21)

4. Big E’s Huge Drop Off

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Big E has gone from being WWE Champion and standing on his own merits over on Raw to feuding with the Happy Corbin/Madcap Moss duo and playing backup for Kofi Kingston. That's...quite the drop off, and it's a fall from grace E probably didn't see coming during WrestleMania season.

Also, he was another Raw guy on SmackDown.

There's a bigger whinge about that coming up, but back to Big E; although fans in Nashville were undoubtedly happy to see him come out as an unadvertised surprise, one gets the sense that E himself seems less-than-thrilled with his lot right now. No wonder. WWE Champ to this?!

It's not gonna be a shocker if next week's SmackDown features a Kofi/E vs. Corbin/Moss tag-team match either. That'd be another step in the wrong direction for someone who was the apple of WWE's eye just a few short months ago.

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