Does anybody else have a slight suspicion that the huge picks are going to RAW early in the draft so they can stock Vengeance with heavy matches, and boost the buy-rate? The major matches, besides 'Tista/HHH, have been added with very little time for build-up, so they're being sold as "dream matches" (or rematches of dream matches - I'm lookin' at
you, HBK/Angle).
The x-factor (
) here is the brand-only PPV. If it was a SD PPV occurring in the middle of the draft, we may have seen an opposite result - huge moves to SD before the PPV, with some balancing acts done afterwards. As is, SD's losing momentum, but a big finish in the draft will pick them up a lot; RAW, on the other hand, doesn't need later picks, because it can coast through the next few weeks on post-Vengeance sizzle.