Why even watch Smackdown?

In my WrestleMania rant, I noted how the Raw announce team was strangely providing commentary for virtually every interpromotional match....and even the Big Show's match with Floyd Mayweather, despite the fact that Show is a member of the Smackdown roster. So, for some reason, two of Smackdown's most high profile matches -- Flair's career threatening match, and Big Show's media frenzy -- were called by the Raw announce team.

If that's not bad enough, two HUGE reasons for people to turn into Smackdown (Flair's farewell address, and Big Show's reaction to Mayweather's victory) appeared on RAW! On top of that, Big Show's interview built up a feud with The Great Khali.....ANOTHER SMACKDOWN SUPERSTAR! Hell, even to a lesser extent, you had Matt Hardy's in-ring return, which also happened on Raw.

The worst part is that none of these Smackdown Superstars needed to appear on Raw. HBK could have still given his interview and been judged by people backstage (Flair's interiew wasn't contingent on this). You could have even had Hardy attack Orton to avenge what Orton had done months back, but saved his in-ring return for his own show (or even built it up for a PPV). This way the story isn't completely ignored, but at the same time you don't kill Hardy's momentum by serving him up a loss in his first match back.

For the life of me, I don't know why Big Show's segment appeared on Raw. If they had done Flair's speech on Smackdown (the show he's a member of), his promo would have still been relevent. And, like I said, as it was, the only person to interrupt was a fellow Smackdown Superstar.

With practically all the top Superstars building their feuds on Raw anyway, why even bother watching Smackdown?

That said, Flair's farewell address was a truly touching scene. It really was quite beautiful. Flair's great and all, but I truly do hope he stays retired. Between his epic match with Michaels at WrestleMania and this scene, he'll never top this departure.