ProWrestlingViews.com » in-ring action http://www.prowrestlingviews.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:27:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Smackdown features more in-ring action http://www.prowrestlingviews.com/2008/12/01/smackdown-features-more-in-ring-action/ http://www.prowrestlingviews.com/2008/12/01/smackdown-features-more-in-ring-action/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:41:56 +0000 Craig Hansen http://www.prowrestlingviews.com/?p=253 Recent episodes of Friday Night Smackdown bear out the notion that although it is the number two show in WWE’s stable, it is the better destination for fans of in-ring action. While Smackdown features a less-star-studded lineup than Monday Night Raw, the average two-hours-and-overrun broadcast of Raw features 30-35 minutes of in-ring wrestling action.

By comparison, recent episodes of Smackdown have featured about 45 minutes of in-ring action. According to Jim Ross, play-by-play man on Smackdown, this is a result of a cost-saving measure on Smackdown during the run-up to WrestleMania; the company is doing one taping every two weeks on Smackdown, with enough wrestling to fill two weeks of shows. Raw, meanwhile, is still broadcast live most weeks out of the year.

Even laptop memory is not sturdy enough to remember the last time Raw or Smackdown featured this much wrestling and so little “entertainment,” but old school wrestling fans are sure to be in for a treat if they tune in.

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