WWE Main Roster Milk Carton: Who hasn’t been on tv in a LONG time?

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I only tune in a few times here or there but I watch the PPVs p regularly. It feels like I haven't seen Asuka since around Mania. Kairi Shane as well.
Last saw Aleister Black yelling in some back segment begging for a match on Twitter.
AOP back back because I saw them in the Saudi royal rumble?
Where art thou Nakamura?
How do they have 3 hour long shows and they can't showcase talent?
QTNA!!!
 

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I hope Buddy & Cedric at least got a pay raise for spending their physical primes in catering
 

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I hope Buddy & Cedric at least got a pay raise for spending their physical primes in catering

Cedric at least gets some tv time.

Jobbing.

On Main Event.

And during 24/7 fukkery chasing R-truth around backstage.
 

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This really speaks to what a disaster the Wild Card Rule has been.

You got the same people working both shows every week, and people who were moved around during the Superstar Shake-up haven't been seen since.

Roode got a name change and a mustache and hasn't been seen in weeks.

Buddy Murphy and Cedric Alexander were moved out of the Cruiserweight division and nothing has been done with them.

Ali hasn't been seen in weeks even though he had a title match with Kofi that booked itself, and was even teased around Mania weekend.

The IIconics, the one act that already had a built-in reason to work both shows, is rarely seen (though they have been getting more screentime lately).

They stacked the SD women's division to have Bayley's first challenger be... Alexa Bliss, from Raw, when the biggest reason to move Bayley to Smackdown was to get her the fukk away from Alexa Bliss.

Rusev and Nakamura's only appearance since April was the Saudi battle royal.

Aliester Black only gets screen time to ramble in a pre-recorded promo about how nobody wants to fight him, like he couldn't just go to Shane and ask for a match.

Speaking of Shane, he's now the top heel on both shows what should be the top heels on both brands are treated like his lackeys. Sounds an awful lot like the Authority, doesn't it?
 

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Seems like they rotate the same ten or so wrestlers every week. I don't even watch and I can tell that anyways. :francis:


That's what i don't get. Obviously you want the top guys, fan favorites and champs every week. But they need to dedicate 30/40 minutes every week to showcasing different mid card guys. Go every other week. Shuffle them around every month, get some to be continued type of thing going. People might anticipate it if they have to wait to see what happens. People would have to tune in cuz you wouldn't know when they'd be on. Instead its the same 15 people every week cutting the same promos
 

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That's what i don't get. Obviously you want the top guys, fan favorites and champs every week. But they need to dedicate 30/40 minutes every week to showcasing different mid card guys. Go every other week. Shuffle them around every month, get some to be continued type of thing going. People might anticipate it if they have to wait to see what happens. People would have to tune in cuz you wouldn't know when they'd be on. Instead its the same 15 people every week cutting the same promos

The champs are the ones that shouldn’t be on every week. With the big ass roster, the champs should be the final boss characters and people fight to get to them. Same thing with the mid card belt. It’s one thing for Finn Balor to not be on tv, but he’s off tv out of sight, out of mind. There’s no IC title division, no tournament, no one calling him out
 

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Honestly if theres anything good thats come out of the 24/7 title its giving loads of peope something to do so fans dont forget them. And thats the weird thing the lower lower case talent shining

Dudes like Nakamura and Rusev I have no idea. Once I saw that Nak was walking amongst the jobbers to the ring for the 50 man battle royale and not getting his own entrance I know it was over:mjcry:
 

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The champs are the ones that shouldn’t be on every week. With the big ass roster, the champs should be the final boss characters and people fight to get to them. Same thing with the mid card belt. It’s one thing for Finn Balor to not be on tv, but he’s off tv out of sight, out of mind. There’s no IC title division, no tournament, no one calling him out

Luckily for Finn hes been able to get on these PPVs and use the demon paint a bit more than usual so I guess thats some concelation
 

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I wish WWE would do like Lucha Underground (R.I.P.) and showcase different talent everyweek. Like Mil Muertes/Puma/Pentagon was like they most popular characters but they was not the focus EVERY week. They’d throw The Mack in the main event one week, Fenix would main event one week. That way EVERYBODY on the roster got sum shine.
 

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This really speaks to what a disaster the Wild Card Rule has been.

You got the same people working both shows every week, and people who were moved around during the Superstar Shake-up haven't been seen since.

Roode got a name change and a mustache and hasn't been seen in weeks.

Buddy Murphy and Cedric Alexander were moved out of the Cruiserweight division and nothing has been done with them.

Ali hasn't been seen in weeks even though he had a title match with Kofi that booked itself, and was even teased around Mania weekend.

The IIconics, the one act that already had a built-in reason to work both shows, is rarely seen (though they have been getting more screentime lately).

They stacked the SD women's division to have Bayley's first challenger be... Alexa Bliss, from Raw, when the biggest reason to move Bayley to Smackdown was to get her the fukk away from Alexa Bliss.

Rusev and Nakamura's only appearance since April was the Saudi battle royal.

Aliester Black only gets screen time to ramble in a pre-recorded promo about how nobody wants to fight him, like he couldn't just go to Shane and ask for a match.

Speaking of Shane, he's now the top heel on both shows what should be the top heels on both brands are treated like his lackeys. Sounds an awful lot like the Authority, doesn't it?


It defeats the purpose of watching Smackdown. If Roman was basically moved back to Raw, Kofi shows up on every Raw, Bayley defending against a Raw wrestler, and every storyline twist only happens on Raw, no reason to tune in on Tuesday’s. Just like it was prior to 2016. They need a brand split and single brand ppvs.
 
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