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The other way is to keep the World Title, Women's Title and Tag Titles are floating belts like the NWA days. It's a bit hard, since you won't really be sending your champions around the place, and it would require each brand to somewhat surrender its own autonomy a bit.
Either that or before you fly off the handle and commission a brand split in the first place, you actually try and make SmackDown good. A Mauro Ranallo/Daniel Bryan commentary team, with angles that flow throughout the week. Just because there isn't a brand split doesn't mean you can't have "SmackDown-specific" things happening too. For example, this Cesaro vs. Sheamus Best of Seven Series could take place entirely on SmackDown. If Cena wants to keep working part-time, why not have his schedule change to ensure he works on the Tuesdays and you have to watch SmackDown to see him?
It seems like they made SmackDown as shitty as possible, with main events repeated on RAW the next week in the mid-card, with no main event talent, and nothing that really felt exclusive beyond Mauro and King's commentary. They went from that to "ENTIRELY ITS OWN THING!!11" and now they need Jinder Mahal and Curt Hawkins to come back to the WWE in order to pad out their rosters, probably forgetting why they fired them in the first place.
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