2017 Superstar Report Card: The SmackDown Live roster (50 to 31)
From heel turns and face turns to reunions and retirements, the last 12 months of WWE television has seen more eventful moments than any year in recent memory.
As 2017 comes to an end, we will be taking a close look at the top 50 Superstars from each of the Raw and SmackDown Live rosters over the last year, ranking them from 50 to 1 and grading them from F to A+.
In this article, the countdown begins with a look at the Superstars who took the positions from 50 to 31 on the SmackDown Live roster.
#50 Eva Marie
Eva Marie’s WWE career was getting better and better until the summer of 2016. She’d proved in NXT that she wasn’t as bad as people thought, despite the continued “you can’t wrestle!” chants, and the first women’s storyline on the revamped SmackDown Live revolved around her.
However, “All Red Everything” was suspended in August 2016 for violating the company’s wellness policy and she was released in July 2017 after almost a year off WWE television.
Grade: F