Every Major Weekly Wrestling Show Ranked From Worst To Best

11. WWE SmackDown

Eleventh doesn't flatter WWE's new A-show, though little has changed since SmackDown move to FOX. The blue brand remains the same. Sure, the cast and network are different, but it's effectively the same show written (largely) by the same people governed by the same tropes and formulae as before, the tremendous NXT invasion episode aside.

That night was an outlier. Forced into drastic measures when most of the roster was stranded in Saudi Arabia, WWE captured lightning in a bottle to kickstart their Survivor Series build in earnest. Adam Cole vs. Daniel Bryan was exhilarating, as were the angles, but they can't do this every week and the show struggles to generate such highs organically.

Eric Bischoff is out and Bruce Prichard is in, but this hasn't resulted in any major differences to the core product. You can still see almost every major story beat coming and while usually a well-booked show, SD's two hours rarely provoke genuine excitement, with the writers rarely straying from predictable patterns. More than any other show in the United States, it is in need of a shakeup beyond drafts and perfunctory personnel changes.