By Richard Gray on March 12, 2004 at 5:35 PM EST

As I talked about earlier today, there have been complaints from several within WWE about the amount of talent that the SmackDown roster has been losing. Over the past couple of months the show has lost Matt Hardy and Chris Benoit and now with Brock Lesnar and Edge to follow. This has caused some in the company to feel that the SmackDown brand is being treated as a "second class" promotion. There were also fingers pointed at the fact that The Rock, who the show was named after, has since also became a Raw superstar.