Monday Night RAW 10/14/2019 - Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch for the number one Draft pick
 

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RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch versus Charlotte Flair (winner gets the number one draft pick for their respective brand)


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<strike>RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch versus Sasha Banks</strike>

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RAW Tag Team Championship Match
RAW Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Robert Rooder versus The Viking Raiders

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Smackdown's Braun Strowman and Tyson Fury set to sign their WWE Crown Jewel contract

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<marquee>Additional Draft Picks post Friday Night Smackdown (as announced on WWE.com)

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List of draft-eligible Superstars for tonight's show

• Universal Champion Seth Rollins
• WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
• Charlotte Flair
• Titus O’Neil
• Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura (with Sami Zayn)
• Aleister Black
• The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E & Xavier Woods)
• Daniel Bryan
• Smackdown Women's Champion Bayley
• Luke Harper
• Erick Rowan
• The Miz
• Ali
• King Corbin
• Elias
• Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode
• Samoa Joe
• WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane)
• Rusev
• Cedric Alexander
• Rey Mysterio
• 24/7 Champion R-Truth
• Carmella
• AOP (Akam & Rezar)
• Andrade (Zelina too?)
• Liv Morgan
• Jinder Mahal
• Buddy Murphy
• Mojo Rawley
• No Way Jose
• Dana Brooke
• Shelton Benjamin
• Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder
• The IIconics (Billie Kay & Peyton Royce)
• Sarah Logan
• Fire & Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville)
• Drake Maverick

Imagining a scenario where The New Day are drafted to RAW and Kofi captures Rollins' Universal Championship, leading to a Seth heel turn and possibly being drafted to Smackdown.

Poor Apollo Crews is yet to win a title in the WWE whereas EC3 is already a 4-time 24/7 Champion.

End of an era

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Did you think it was Monday?

Nope. I tend to post threads in advance.

I know they goofed with listing the draft pool in order on Friday, but my the night two pool before they re-ordered it never looked right anyway with Titus being listed fourth (which would inexplicably make him a first round pick) and Aleister Black who has barely been used being ahead of Bryan, The New Day, and Bayley.

Aleister's actually an interesting case. Supposedly Heyman has been pushing to get him. But with Vince/Bischoff said to be focused on making Charlotte the focal point of the women's division on FOX, that means Andrade will be on SmackDown too and presumably Zelina as well. Since WWE is averse about splitting up couples or marriages, that would place Aleister on SmackDown too unless Zelina's heading off to do her own thing, which would be odd. It would also mean Heyman missed out on someone else he wanted as he was supposedly lobbying to keep Wyatt as well.

While they reordered the pool in alphabetical order, the list still has Charlotte Flair as Smackdown Women's Champion, and Heavy Machinery who were already drafted during Smackdown.

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Remember when it seemed like they were going out of their way to split up known couples/spouses? I know that the pivot from that excercise isn't exactly a new shift, but it seems like one of those policies they would have left by the wayside long ago if there wasn't a bigger chance of people leaving the company since there are proverbial greener pastures now (and I don't just mean AEW). Kinda like the Wellness Policy ammendments initially designed to keep them from losing potential top draws without looking like their self-policing look like a joke to keeping folks who may have wanted out to try their hand elsewhere.

I can't wait for Raw to draft Asuka, and then 4 picks later draft Kairi Sane. GENIUS!

I sincerely hope that we're moving towards a hard brand split like before and that the 24/7 and women's tag team titles become brand specific.

I am going to give RAW IS WAR (rooms) a shot....but this might be "it" for RAW if it's as bad as last week for me

I'll prob watch next week even if this week is horrible (which I am expecting it to be.......) just in case they start doing new stuff / angles with the "new rosters"

Interesting that they decided to kickoff off RAW with Wyatt who's now on Smackdown.

Yeah wtf lol

I’d have to assume the split doesn’t take effect til Friday or maybe next week, but fuck knows with this company.

+ also due to feeling "trapped" into watching this shit that I absolutely h8 cause I have to update TPWW...........

Can't wait for Survivor Series, the only time of the year when RAW and Smackdown go head to head.

Promo for Smackdown star Bray Wyatt to open RAW

smh

you can treat it like the e show behind smackdown aew nxt nwa new japan and impact in updates

If WWE didn't make the 3-to-2 rule for draft picks, these matches to determine which brand gets the first pick of the night would have been a lot more unpredictable and/or enjoyable.

To be fair, it doesn’t preclude Smackdown from possibly winning.

It would just be SD-Raw-SD-Raw-Raw each round

I am assuming he is gonna get "traded" to Raw

SD's set looks better

RAW's set fits better into the camera frame

Charlotte's a fucking legend!

Hope this opening contest doesn't end in a dq or no contest.

Feel like it would be “really fucking stupid” for Smackdown to trade away a guy they spent a first round pick on.

Then again it could be their way of loading up Smackdown since Raw would have to trade all of its second round picks or some bullshit

I wonder if this will end in 'no contest'

Ever since Vito shared the /r/Botchedsurgeries post about Charlotte, I can't unsee the damage they've done on her face.

The Impossible Whooper tastes nothing like beef.

Yeah I guess. Maybe if it was someone else besides RAW's #1 pick in this match, I could see it being more unpredictable.

Having Becky lose in any fashion would just devalue RAW. At least Charlotte could lose via Bayley interference and it would make sense considering the current story between the two.

Ummm...why are they playing Charlotte's entrance music?

And it’s barely fewer calories and substantially higher in sodium.

Commentary mentioning Ronda

Exactly! Nobody talks about that.

not really feeling this match

fcking long ass (boring) match that is just gonna end in a non-finish anyway... complete waste of time

Body image issues are a bitch. Becky is shredded but can’t bring herself to wear attire that doesn’t cover her up.

It shall remain for Seth’s eyes only.

top of arena super dark in Denver

This is a far superior match when compared to Reigns vs. Rollins from last week's Smackdown.

jobbing again

LOL Vince clearly still doesn’t view SD as the A show

Yeah! I can empathize with her position. Not that she has anything to be ashamed of.

Poor Charly needs to go easy on the injections.

h8 seth rollins

:lol: at the match ending via a sudden roll-up.

Becky vs Charlotte was pretty good overall though.

OMG! A Rollins promo!

The path to hell starts below a WWE ring.

Looks like they are about to gain fan's in Alabama.

Seth Rollins is low energy

Seth Rollins is Jeb!

That Draft recap video sounded like something from NFL Films but more lamer.

fan is in Alabama?

imagine having a draft with no draft picks in the first half hour

Oh God!

They're sticking to the list.

These Draft insight segments have been really terrible and feel way too forced.

Welp Aleister to RAW for sure.

lol I love Andrade but him as a first round pick is hilarious, he's done nothing for months

Yeah Heyman got his wish

SmackDown women's division is gonna be really bad

It's a joke making fun of the state cause people think it's the incest capital of the world.

poor joe

I see we are continuing the trend of drafting people to the show they are already on

No one will ever notice the difference ( because they wont be watching ).

Brock was on Raw, Charlotte and Andrade were on SmackDown

at least they were until WILD CARD RULE BITCHES

And I was making fun of you.

yawn

:lol: "Horsefaces"

Zelina's promo barely makes any sense.

Feel like SD might draft Roode and Ziggler only for them to drop the belts to the Vikings

If so, I hope Harper and Rowan are going over to Raw

Jerry Lawler "Hey guys is Andrade related to that race car driver, Mario Andrade"

It's amusing that Ziggler has barely appeared on Smackdown since his return although being assigned to the brand.

I don't like the new ticker.

lollllllllllllllll Women's Tag titles will still float

Raw should have drafted Bayley

Smackdown women's division:

Bayley
Lacey Evans
Sasha Banks
Tamina

All heel. Feel like FOX might want Lacey as a face due to being a Marine.

New Day, Daniel Bryan & Bayley to Smackdown

Wow, how unexpected!!!

I guess it's safe to assume the same for the 24/7 Championship.

Lol wait, Raw could have drafted Daniel Bryan, and took Asuka and Sane.
Raw could have picked the Smackdown women champ, but instead picked Charlotte?

Also, how the fuck does Rusev get picked before Shinsuke, who comes with the I.C. Title AND Sami Zayn???

These War Room react shots have been the only good stuff about the Draft soo far.

USA Network being overly ecstatic drafting Natty and depressed over losing Bryan despite having the chance to pick him earlier were hilarious.

Only thing keeping me tuned in is that I'm trying to get some work done and Raw works better as background noise than MNF or the NLCS because those might actually capture my interest.

Which brand would Chris Benoit be drafted to?

I have a feeling Sami gets to be the we don't want both of you pick

ECW

Yeah, but then he will get picked later by the same brand anyways :o

Yeah, way to downplay your Intercontinental Champion. AFAIK, Sami Zayn is still assigned to RAW.

Lawler still taking shots at Ziggler...

If I'm the Viking Raiders, I would have declined the title shot opportunity since rarely anything good happens to tag champs in WWE land.

All that's guaranteed is them becoming suddenly way weaker and losing way more often as champs than if they didn't have the belts.

:lol: Oh, man. I can't even bring myself to watch.

It just dawned on me that WWE split their roster into essentially two halves so they could have these pools -- isn't that essentially a draft?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, and Charlotte were in literally 99.99999% of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Smackdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Smackdown</a> advertisements we’ve been seeing over the months. None of them will be on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Fox</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWE</a></p>&mdash; Matt Degnan (@degnan_matt) <a href="https://twitter.com/degnan_matt/status/1183912763959267328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I don't know about the draft pick trade rumors, but the local ad in Cleveland for next weeks Raw is heavily built around The Fiend.

Given how odd a horror movie villain would fit in with the more sports focus show Smackdown is supposed to be, Wyatt would seem the most likely traded to Raw.

Wyatt for Charlotte seems the most obvious move since Smackdown has all heel females, but then are they moving Andrade again, with Vega and Black cause of relationships?

If this were any other company in the world, that would be surprising.

That was actually fairly good match

I can see Charlotte, Andrade, Vega & Black for Wyatt and...probably just Wyatt.

Wonder if FOX now regrets the huge sum of money they gave to WWE for Smackdown. Same for the huge sum of cash spent soo far on all the promotional stuff for the brand.

Look like they have ashes on their foreheads (via Ash Wednesday)

New champions :love:

This draft is not going to last.

They will be having the rosters spill within weeks.