The biggest winners and losers of last night's SmackDown (October 18)

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The draft is now over and the dust has settled. The new landscape of the company has taken shape with WrestleMania 36 now being slightly closer than further away.

It's time to see who's gotten the most of the opportunities afforded to them and who's been falling behind. The glitz and pomp of the first half of October are behind us for now. It's time for the nitty gritty of building a weekly show in the lag periods, something which WWE has proven unreliable at, at best.

How well did the company do on SmackDown and who got the most and least out of last night's first "normal" show on Fox? Let's take a look and find out.

Loser: "Shorty" Gable

The Viking Experience has been superseded as the worst name change of all time. The title now belongs to the former Chad Gable, who has inexplicably taken up the name "Shorty." He squashed Curtis Axel last night, but the name change obscures everything else as surely as the sun obscures other stars.

They're actually sticking with this name.

It's bad because any take on the word "short" or "little" associates a man with low status and power. That's just the way it is. By putting that word in front of Gable's name, you unconsciously think of him as a little guy, unworthy of respect.

Apologists will say this is part of the underdog angle, but that was hardly needed. The King of the Ring tournament should have proved that. This is going to be death by a thousand cuts when WWE inevitably starts faltering after its first monumental stumble. Gable is now indelibly associated with littleness. That is never going to get a male performer over in the long run.

And WWE wonders why it can't make any stars.