Smackdown - WWE Draft (Night 1)
 

Here is the elgible talent for Night 1's draft pool

For every 2 stars, Raw gets 3 since it's longer

Teams/Factions count as 1 draft pick

Brands can draft talent already on their show

Undrafted stars will be free agents



Asuka
Sasha Banks
Bianca Belair
Dana Brooke
Humberto Carrillo
Angel Garza
Drew Gulak
Heavy Machinery (Otis & Tucker)
The Hurt Business (Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, Cedric Alexander and MVP)
Mickie James
Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado)
Drew McIntyre
The Miz & John Morrison
Murphy
Rey & Dominik Mysterio
Naomi
The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods)
Roman Reigns
Ricochet
Seth Rollins
Mandy Rose
Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax
Shorty G
AJ Styles
Jey Uso

I haven't even really been following, so it's hard to say what I *want*, because I'm probably still not going to watch, but Seth Rollins really should go to SmackDown. I know people are expecting a Seth/AJ swap or something, but they should be on the same show. I like the idea of Reigns and Rollins sharing space as the top heels -- either allied or icy. Styles and Bryan as the top babyfaces of that show would make sense too. Sets up SmackDown to be the best program on television, at least in theory.

Angel Garza to SmackDown makes a lot of sense too. Get him away from Andrade and that locked block of Aleister Black/Zelina Vega/Andrade/Charlotte on Raw. I mean, they could all go to SmackDown, but Angel Garza and his youthful appeal would be much better on FOX, I feel. And he doesn't take up much room.

I predict Big E gets drafted as a singles act, which is fucking nuts. Because why can't you just draft all three and then have Big E be a singles act anyway? You're getting more talent for the pick of one, but they pulled this shit last time when they separated Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross or something. The only two I would even consider splitting as picks would be Rey Mysterio, with absolutely no intention of drafting Dominik (as a shoot -- nothing against the kid). But that's really neither here nor there.

Shorty G is going to be unsigned, I think. He's the one I'm pretty sure about. This will be used to slip him into further nothingness or he'll get mad and try and do something about it.

I'd like SmackDown to end up with the serious wrestling acts. Raw should get the overly WWE acts. Bray Wyatt can do his three characters in each of the hours and I will continue not to watch him. But I think they need to streamline the tones of these shows and make them a bit more different from each other (although you're still inevitably going to get two WWE products).

Lol why would a show draft somebody already on their show?

The half eligible to be drafted tonight and half Monday was the stupidest thing last year, so of course they are gonna do that again smh.

I'm sure they will do the annual switch of Miz and K.O.

Ricochet, Crews, Humberto, Peyton, Hurt Business, and Garza to SD.
Strowman, Wyatt, Lucha House Party, Bliss, Sami, Styles, and Gulak to Raw.

No real reason for those picks, but there usually isn't much logic to these drafts anymore anyways.

Also, if they are randomly going to have Adam Pearce make matches, then they should just bring GMs back.

It gives them a reason/option to have a little more star power on the shows. I mean, are they just going to pretend USA executives and the Fox Football robot are making the picks again??? :rofl:

LOL OMG they are legit just picking who they already have

:lol: at the first three picks for RAW being people they already had on their brand.

"Its time to SHAKE THINGS UP!" :rofl:

I mean it’s inevitable shows are gonna pick who they already have if they are gonna carry on with completely re-drafting the rosters every year.

Still a weird show structure though. Having a few people switch via lottery every year wasn’t a bad setup.

They really should have made it so that you couldn't pick people from your own brand and include NXT and 205 Live to deepen the pool for some surprises.

That's also back to back years where RAW's first round picks were just their own guys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_WWE_Draft

Ouch at that welt on Sheamus' back.

Rocket strap Big E as soon as possible

Sheamus vs. Big E was pretty good but hope whoever owned that black car has some really good insurance since it got destroyed by both guys.

Hope it was Corbin's car lol

That Reigns promo was great. He's been on an amazing roll on the mic ever since his heel turn.

:lol: at RAW getting Styles back despite willingly trading him away a few months ago.

Guess he couldn't stand being around Heyman again.

So far 6 picks in for RAW and they only really got 1 new person in return via the Naomi pick.

Nia Jax & Shayna were already RAW brand talent prior to winning the Women's tag belts and Styles was someone they already had before and actively got rid of only to get him back now.

So the big changes so far are:


AJ to RAW
Naomi to RAW

Seth to SD
Bianca to SD

HOLY SHIT LARS CAME BACK!

Lars baby...

My guess is AJ feuds w/ Drew for a few months or gets the Drew WM feud (depending on who else goes to RAW...Braun?)

My man...

His gimmick should be he just beats the hell out of people for gay rights.

Surprised WWE brought back Lars Sullivan considering all the stuff that came out against him and Vince souring on his big push plans.

Maybe Braun stays on SD so he can feud w/ LARS

Not a Lars fan these days, dumbass fucker

LOL why the fuck would Raw draft Ricochet in the 3rd round when they never use him lol

I shit myself today.

Naomi going to Raw is really surprising, actually. Either they’re going to scrap their husband/wives stay together rule or Jimmy is going to Raw. It’ll be interesting to see if Jey goes too or ends up as a singles on SmackDown.

:lol: at two of RAW's 3rd round picks being more people they already had.

This draft show might be the lamest ever in terms of picks made.

Same with Bianca, but I expect Private Party to drop the belts to The Hurt Business on Raw. Or maybe another team that gets locked into Raw (Miz & Morrison, etc.).

God I need to shower, I really smell like shit.

I'm guessing once the Roman feud is done he will disappear until Jimmy is ready to come back, and they will show up on Raw as.free agents somehow.

UGH at Seth, Rey and Dominik on same brand

*Street Profits :D

I’m guessing the relationship thing doesn’t matter right now since they’re not on the road and probably won’t be until Mania season if that.

By then they’ll have shifted people around again anyway

The best format they ever had was the 2005 draft, but they could have very easily done an episode of SmackDown where Roman Reigns was confronted by Seth Rollins. Or at least given us AJ Styles vs. Seth Rollins before Styles left for Raw.

All that's left is for the Blue Brand to draft Murphy and they can experience the same terrible telenovela storyline as RAW did.

Leaves Murphy all alone with Aalyah to do Murphy things :naughty:

Actually, that’s a very good point. I forget how fucked up the States is and how they’re basically the same show anyway right now and probably for a long while yet.

Rey and Dominik on Smackers is smart. They’ll make great faces for Roman to bully. And Cesaro is a great choice to work with Dominik. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the belts go to Rey and Son to Roman and Seth.

Murphy needs to stay the fuck away from Seth. He’s not dynamic enough for that sort of spot. He can be a body somewhere, but he needs some life. He’d be a great fit for NXT.