5 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Apr 24)

1. It Was Completely Skippable

Triple H Shawn Michaels
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Pointlessness was a problem for this week's SmackDown.

The whole show just came across as an episode WWE wanted to get through as quickly as possible. Yes, there were positives (they're coming up), but they were weren't quite enough to make this week's offering essential to anyone sitting on the fence about watching.

Hopefully, things will pick up the closer they get to MITB, but who knows? That pay-per-view is around three weeks away, and WWE didn't even bother to put Universal Champion Braun Strowman on SmackDown or further his feud with Bray Wyatt. Serving up the video package they did and leaving it at that felt lazy.

The brand's major rivalry should be motoring along every week, but it's not. There wasn't even any word on whether or not Strowman and Wyatt will be on next week's show. Though WWE want to spin things out and drip-feed content during an uncertain time, they best be careful not to make everything so slow.

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