Why Is WWE RAW Better Than WWE SmackDown?

Well we have finally seen it happen, the WWE likes RAW better than they do Smackdown, but why? It isn’t because the best wrestlers are one RAW is it? I mean Jeff Hardy, Triple H, The Undertaker and Edge are all on Smackdown, so that should help right?

It is such a heavily discussed opinion, but I finally have figured out, see as you have seen RAW was the first WWE TV show. When Vince McMahon JR, the man we know as Mr. McMahon, took over the WWF from Vince McMahon Sr. he wanted to make the company marketable.

He knew that wrestling had fans all over, but he also knew that people couldn't always make it to every show. He started bringing the WWF to events all across the country more and more.

And finally got the idea that the wrestling fans need a weekly show, a show that was always new, and never a re-run. It will have new material and matches every week that the fans want to see.

They would sell out arenas, but also they would show live or taped broadcasts across the US. That is when RAW came in, it has had different names, like RAW is War, Monday Night RAW, and just plan RAW.

But it was always the same concept. The WWE has always wanted it to be the staple of the WWE. It is the show that most of the WWE returns or big events happen. Every year the Wrestlemania hype such as special guests, are always done on RAW.

Floyd Mayweather Jr was introduced to be in match with the Big Show last year, and yet Big Show was a Smackdown superstar, and yet another return was on RAW. Chris Jericho's huge return was again on RAW.

Although Chris Jericho was always known as a RAW superstar pretty much. Every wrestler in the WWE wants to be on RAW. All superstars get their chance to shine on the show too. Take guys like Edge, who made their big break on RAW.

He became a WWE Champion and a well known fixture in wrestling on RAW then was moved to Smackdown and brought in good ratings. Guys like HBK and Triple H have been fixtures on RAW for years.

The return of DX on RAW by the way. Even the McMahons hardly ever show up at a Smackdown show, unless they were the GM at one time. And again every superstar on RAW is bigger than that of a Smackdown superstar.

Unless they were on RAW at one time as Jeff Hardy, Triple H, and Edge were. Yet they keep the tow biggest stars in the WWE on RAW, in Randy Orton and John Cena. The only one who has survived as a Smackdown superstar, and is the only one whose legacy has not been affected is The Undertaker. He is such a big draw, that they had to keep him on Smackdown just to get sufficient ratings.

Big Show, and Edge cannot carry the show. And Hardy and Triple H were moved to Smackdown by the WWE because ratings were getting bad on Smackdown.

And the only Live show in the WWE is RAW, ECW has been live before but it is not live as much and is now taped after the live RAW. Smackdown is taped on Tuesdays, and is the only show in the WWE that has never been live.

Every good show for me is one that is live, and it seems as in the WWE fans think that too, therefore most of the ratings go to RAW because of that. The Tribute to the Troops every year is a RAW show too.

And it may seem as if the WWE doesn't want any of their shows to get the better on RAW. They make a big fuss over RAW's 25 anniversary and its 800th show. Yet not much is made for Smackdown.

Sure they made a big thing on the move from the CW to MyNetwork TV, but that is it. Smackdown has and always will be a good show, but never a great show. And that is because the WWE doesn't want it to be.

My opinion is that they should be after ratings on Smackdown especially since it is on regular TV and not cable as RAW is.

More of the rating go to regular TV Channels, such as NBC, FOX, CBS and CW than that of a cable channel. That is because just about everyone in the world has a TV but not everyone has cable.

But one bad thing the WWE did was they put Smackdown in MyNetwrok TV and only Americans can see it on its regular date. We see it ion Fridays and it on Demand in other countries.

And RAW has been on Spike and USA which are available for anyone who has cable or satellite around the world. That is the only reason the WWE could favor RAW over Smackdown.

So basically the WWE is killing one of its shows, but why? You be the judge, I gave you my opinion, what is yours?