The WWE Draft 2023: Night 2 Mindy’s Bakery Raw 1/5/23

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LOL exactly!

[GD]

If they're serious about the brand split, they should definitely make the men's and women's tag team titles brand exclusive.

[XL]

Don’t try and apply too much logic to any of this, WWE didn’t. #FEDBAD

[GD]

Big Oof Oakerson

[XL]

Big news: the ring announcers have swapped shows.

[XL]

Which could be kinda awkward as the now Raw announcer is engaged to Ricochet who’s ex has just be brought up to Raw.

[GD]

Which could be kinda awkward as the now Raw announcer is engaged to Ricochet who’s ex has just be brought up to Raw.

Sometimes you just gotta katana chance

[Evil Vito]

They just started a big heel turn with him in nxt, plus I'd argue he needs more time in the oven.

Not only do I think they want him to get his legs under him with a heel run in NXT, but I think he's someone that should probably get a bigger debut than just being a random draft pick.

No reason they can't have him turn up on Raw as a surprise sometime in the summer or fall whenever they deem him ready to go.

[Evil Vito]

Cora Jade was rumored to be getting drafted but with Bron staying put I'm not surprised she did too. She will probably debut roughly around the same time Bron does to keep them together.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I’m fine with Bron Breakker being in NXT for a little bit more. I think he’s ready enough, but you’ve got to have a plan.

[rez]

Can HHH do a long term story that brings Cody vs Roman 2.0?

Vince wouldn't be able to (short)

Tony couldn't (too long term)

Maybe HHH is juuuuust right.

[XL]

Wait. Which brand drafted Gable Steveson?

[Fignuts]

Kinda want to see Imperium turn face by going after the judgement day.

Like imagine how much you could tease gunther getting his hands on dominic. Milk it enough and that one chop will get an earth shattering pop.

[Evil Vito]

I'm down with that. I feel like Imperium are bound to naturally go face anyway. It's not like they're constantly badmouthing America and getting cheap "foreign" heat, people genuinely like to see Gunther fuck dudes up.

[GD]

Looks like it's going to be an inter-promotional match at Night of Champions

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[Fignuts]

Why? It's the Raw belt.

[Lock Jaw]

So Roman Reigns can win it

[GD]

Why? It's the Raw belt.

It's such an odd choice considering they just did the draft. They can't even pretend :smh:

Doesn't seem like they're going for a "hard split" since RAW has both the men's and women's tag team champions.

[XL]

This fucking company :lol:

[Mr. Nerfect]

Did they actually say the belt was going to be exclusive to Raw? I didn’t watch. I was under the impression it’s just another belt for when Roman isn’t there.

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh God. It was bad enough when they made another world title right after unifying the two they had. If they just use this as a secondary title being defended on the same shows as Reigns but call it a world title just to force the “world champion” label on guys… Holy shit.

[Lock Jaw]

Really, it just makes it "super obvious" that the RAW guy is gonna win is what it does

[XL]

Did they actually say the belt was going to be exclusive to Raw? I didn’t watch. I was under the impression it’s just another belt for when Roman isn’t there.

It was sort of implicit surely?

“Because when Roman gets drafted, he will take the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship with him and he will stay there. The other brand will determine a new Champion.”

He was drafted to SmackDown hence the new belt is for Raw. Why would I SmackDowm guys be involved?

If that’s not the case the setup is even worse.

[Lock Jaw]

They should just throw it out there and say if the winner is from Smackdown, he will become a RAW exclusive.

I mean, it would still be super obvious that the RAW guy would be winning, but at least it will try to cover it up a little.

[Mr. Nerfect]

The way Triple H talked about the belt initially, he kind of said it could be defended anywhere. I’m just wondering if they actually said the belt’s going to be Raw exclusive or if that was just what fans ran with because it’s how it’s been done in the past? I legit don’t know.

[XL]

The way he described it it was the 24/7 Champiosnhip :lol:

[XL]

So on Backlash they definitely stated Raw had the new championship.