5 Ups And 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Feb 18)
2. Natalya Wasn't Given An Entrance
There's no excuse for not giving professional wrestlers an actual proper entrance for their televised matches. Every time WWE chooses not to, they only make their own performers look like enhancement talent. In fairness, that was Natalya's role during her match against Charlotte, but at least give her some respect and let her come out and run through her entrance routine. Instead, she looked like a jobber from an old show like Wrestling Challenge. She may not be someone WWE want to push as a real threat to the Divas Champion, but she's part of the company-produced Total Divas show. That should be reason enough to give her more TV time. Fans pick up on things like this, and there's no excuse for it. Does Natalya's entrance really need to be cut so R-Truth and Goldust can star in the exact same segment fans have already witnessed time and time again? Were the production team running short on time or something?
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