3 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Nov 12)

2. All That In-Fighting

Naomi Sasha Banks Aliyah Natalya Shayna Baszler Shotzi
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Keep this six-woman tag and all the bickering between 'Team SmackDown' in mind when WWE pretends that these ladies are a united front who desperately want to prove brand superiority against Raw. That's bound to happen next week, and it's why this in-fighting is so intolerable.

That's the problem with the Raw vs. SmackDown stuff: WWE have played this tune too many times that it's plain old now. So, to combat that, they think that booking some friction between teammates will add some intriguing narrative to the pay-per-view elimination match. They're wrong.

Oh. So. Very. Wrong.

Sasha Banks will team with the likes of Natalya, Shayna Baszler and even Shotzi with minimal fuss next Sunday, because Vinnie Mac seemingly believes that "brand superiority" is a more interesting hook than actual fleshed-out feuds. It really isn't, and actually never has been.

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