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Old 05-10-2005, 09:13 PM   #41
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This is typical WWE. They expect the draft to be "major" but, give it little attention. They are focusing more on the ECW One Night Stand PPV more than the upcoming draft.

I hope the draft is done right. RAW is the A-Show and Smackdown is the B-Show. It shouldn't be that way. Both should be equally impactful and meaningful. Politics play a part of the equation, but, there should be no differences in either show. So, I'm hoping the lottery will kind of even it out and make both shows good again[like after the original draft]. If only two or three stars are jumping though, it won't be that major anyway. It's going to take major changes to make an impact and change the WWE for the better.
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Old 05-10-2005, 09:18 PM   #42
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I really don't give two shits about the draft, as long as they push wrestlers properly.
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Old 05-10-2005, 09:23 PM   #43
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I didn't get to see last year's as I started watching SmackDown regularly right after that though. I remember the big ass fight, that was pretty cool...
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Old 05-11-2005, 05:48 AM   #44
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If they hyped the draft now, wouldn't that overshadow Judgment Day coming up? My guess is that they wouldn't want to take the chance, and just worry about selling Judgment Day first, THEN the draft.

People will wonder if anything at JD will mean anything if those very people will be taken out of SmackDown via the draft, and thus won't order the PPV, which the WWE I would figure want for people to order.

Makes sense to me.
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Old 05-11-2005, 09:44 AM   #45
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Smart thinking darkpower.

Didn't even think about Judgment Day (mainly because I don't watch this programme you seem to call SmackDOWN!)

But I quite like the idea of having people bitch to Bischoff/Long about the state of the show their on, then if/when they get drafted, things get worse. Like when Carlito griped about Teddy Long but nothing happened, so he was stuck shovelling snow outside the arena. But you could also work it so Masters gets drafted to SmackDOWN! and in one of his challenges he gets beat and has to fork out $5000 or whatever it is now.

Come on WWE, DON'T SCREW THIS ONE UP!
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Old 05-11-2005, 10:17 AM   #46
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If they hyped the draft now, wouldn't that overshadow Judgment Day coming up? My guess is that they wouldn't want to take the chance, and just worry about selling Judgment Day first, THEN the draft.

People will wonder if anything at JD will mean anything if those very people will be taken out of SmackDown via the draft, and thus won't order the PPV, which the WWE I would figure want for people to order.

Makes sense to me.
They're hyping One Night Only, wouldn't that "Overshadow" JD?
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Old 05-11-2005, 10:19 AM   #47
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There should be a guy or guys complaining they don't want to go to the other show. That they find it a demotion. Just more genaral buzz.


They don't need to overhype it, just a couple of backstage segments, say MNM being worried about being split up, or Edge not wanting to lose his "Money in the Bank" deal if he moves to Smackdown.

Like in the 2002 draft, William Regal (I think) went around the various tag teams, shit stirring, and teasing some tag break ups (telling the APA, Hardyz etc that they might not be on the same show after the draft.) It hypes the show without overdoing it, or making it seem fake.
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Old 05-11-2005, 03:11 PM   #48
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They're hyping One Night Only, wouldn't that "Overshadow" JD?
From what I was hearing, they weren't going to do as much advertising of that PPV than they normally do (although I am surprised that they did do a promo about it with Coach and Bishoff on RAW), so I'm not sure if that would really count. The draft is something that EVERYONE is going to be wanting to see, whereas ECW is something that may be for a more "localized" audience.
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Old 05-11-2005, 03:17 PM   #49
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From what I was hearing, they weren't going to do as much advertising of that PPV than they normally do (although I am surprised that they did do a promo about it with Coach and Bishoff on RAW), so I'm not sure if that would really count. The draft is something that EVERYONE is going to be wanting to see, whereas ECW is something that may be for a more "localized" audience.
And yet ECW's gotten more attention.

By your logic, does it make more sense to advertise to a specialty crowd, or to hype somethint everyone's gonna wanna see?
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Old 05-11-2005, 11:02 PM   #51
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And yet ECW's gotten more attention.

By your logic, does it make more sense to advertise to a specialty crowd, or to hype somethint everyone's gonna wanna see?
I'm not saying that I'm agreeing with it, just trying to make some sense out of it.

By WWE'S logic (which is what I put up there), yeah, EXACTLY that. Of course, WWE logic is different from any other logic in the fucking WORLD, so what can you do? (and again, I'm not necessarily AGREEING with it, just telling you how it probably will be according to the WWE!).
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