So, this is taken from Nick Paglino of WrestleZone who is kind of like their version of Dave Meltzer on a much lower level. So, take this with a few grains of salt. This is the rumored draft results of Smackdown and RAW that he claims "have been floating around for a few days"
Spoiler
Smackdown: Rusev and Lana, The New Day, Apollo Crews, Becky Lynch, AJ Styles, Kevin Owens, The Vaudevillains, The Wyatt Family, Baron Corbin, Emma, Tyler Breeze and Fandango, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, Randy Orton, Dana Brooke, Big Show, Titus O’Neil, Tyson Kidd, Alicia Fox, Natalya, Darren Young and Bob Backlund, Goldust and R-Truth, Kane, Mark Henry, Jack Swagger, Tamina Snuka, Eva Marie, Finn Balor, Peyton Royce, Tye Dillinger, Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa, Austin Aries, Mojo Rawley, Billie Kay, Nia Jax, No Way Jose
RAW: The Miz and Maryse, Seth Rollins, Sasha Banks, Sami Zayn, Cesaro, Enzo Amore and Big Cass, Dean Ambrose, John Cena. Paige, Alberto Del Rio, Neville, Chris Jericho, The Dudley Boyz, Summer Rae, Kalisto, The Shining Stars, Zack Ryder, Naomi, Sin Cara, Sheamus, The Usos, Dolph Ziggler, The Ascension, Nikki Bella, The Social Outcasts, Bayley, Shinsuke Nakamura, The Revival, Carmella, Alexa Bliss, Bobby Roode, Hideo Itami, Liv Morgan, Blake and Murphy, Elias Sampson
WWE Champion and Woman's Champion will go between shows.
Discussion and my reaction below:
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I'm just not a fan of it. It is all too hastily done and executed sloppily. They did indeed promise debuting 30 people in the next 2 months recently, and if this happens that'll be more than true. Also, it gives a lot more meaning to HHH's tweet about NXT: The End. Again, I can't give this any credit or validation whatsoever as this is from probably one of the most successful wrestling dirt sheets out there. I actually worked there for two months and was fired because I was 'too wordy' and apparently sounded like a 15 year old girl watching wrestling. I was too used to doing commentary and puffing up what was going on I guess. Fuck them.
That aside, if this list has any validity to it...I'll take it I guess. I would like to think the main reason for doing this is to lighten the work schedule and make it so they each only have to work one or maybe two house shows instead of three every weekend and possibly extend to one more day off per week, making Wednesday, Thursday, and possibly one of the weekend days off as well.
Also, I believe making Smackdown live with this much new talent could prove to be a terrible decision. Like what happened with Enzo on PPV...you know, his first PPV ever...that could happen 30 times over in the next few months and that'll not only seriously damage the product because of shitty matches, but we'd be losing more people than ever to injury and suddenly one of the shows would start suffering more than the other and need to borrow wrestlers from the other side...then, *boom*...before you know it, the brand split begins to disintegrate before it even really is solidified.
And that's just one scenario where it won't work. Maybe I'm just being a pessimist. But, I'm also pissed about how Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens are split up. That's unforgivable to the point of not putting Daniel Bryan in the 2014 Royal Rumble. That is absolute garbage. But, hey...if this works out and everyone gets an extra day off while creating newer, fresher content and very few people have to clamor and/or strain for TV time...I'll be happy. Because I see few people not in a storyline right now in WWE and I like it that way. Everyone has their spot on the card and they are establishing the title pictures very well right now in spite of the terrible injuries.
I just think that ending NXT is too hastily done. That is some of the absolute best wrestling on this planet and it'll be very interesting to see if they just end it all or do a reboot and start with all newly signed talent *cough*BobbyRoode*cough*.
One last thing. Where are the Tag Titles going to go? I really hope they start traveling too. In the end, I would hope this raises the value of the Tag Team Titles as the Women's Title's image has been soaring recently and the World Title is...well, the World Title.
Please respond with the spoiler boxes so not to disturb anyone who doesn't want to see anything and still clicked for some weird reason.
So, this is taken from Nick Paglino of WrestleZone who is kind of like their version of Dave Meltzer on a much lower level. So, take this with a few grains of salt. This is the rumored draft results of Smackdown and RAW that he claims "have been floating around for a few days"
Spoiler
Smackdown:
Rusev and Lana, The New Day, Apollo Crews, Becky Lynch, AJ Styles, Kevin Owens, The Vaudevillains, The Wyatt Family, Baron Corbin, Emma, Tyler Breeze and Fandango, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, Randy Orton, Dana Brooke, Big Show, Titus O’Neil, Tyson Kidd, Alicia Fox, Natalya, Darren Young and Bob Backlund, Goldust and R-Truth, Kane, Mark Henry, Jack Swagger, Tamina Snuka, Eva Marie, Finn Balor, Peyton Royce, Tye Dillinger, Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa, Austin Aries, Mojo Rawley, Billie Kay, Nia Jax, No Way Jose
RAW:
The Miz and Maryse, Seth Rollins, Sasha Banks, Sami Zayn, Cesaro, Enzo Amore and Big Cass, Dean Ambrose, John Cena. Paige, Alberto Del Rio, Neville, Chris Jericho, The Dudley Boyz, Summer Rae, Kalisto, The Shining Stars, Zack Ryder, Naomi, Sin Cara, Sheamus, The Usos, Dolph Ziggler, The Ascension, Nikki Bella, The Social Outcasts, Bayley, Shinsuke Nakamura, The Revival, Carmella, Alexa Bliss, Bobby Roode, Hideo Itami, Liv Morgan, Blake and Murphy, Elias Sampson
WWE Champion and Woman's Champion will go between shows.
Discussion and my reaction below:
Spoiler
I'm just not a fan of it. It is all too hastily done and executed sloppily. They did indeed promise debuting 30 people in the next 2 months recently, and if this happens that'll be more than true. Also, it gives a lot more meaning to HHH's tweet about NXT: The End. Again, I can't give this any credit or validation whatsoever as this is from probably one of the most successful wrestling dirt sheets out there. I actually worked there for two months and was fired because I was 'too wordy' and apparently sounded like a 15 year old girl watching wrestling. I was too used to doing commentary and puffing up what was going on I guess. Fuck them.
That aside, if this list has any validity to it...I'll take it I guess. I would like to think the main reason for doing this is to lighten the work schedule and make it so they each only have to work one or maybe two house shows instead of three every weekend and possibly extend to one more day off per week, making Wednesday, Thursday, and possibly one of the weekend days off as well.
Also, I believe making Smackdown live with this much new talent could prove to be a terrible decision. Like what happened with Enzo on PPV...you know, his first PPV ever...that could happen 30 times over in the next few months and that'll not only seriously damage the product because of shitty matches, but we'd be losing more people than ever to injury and suddenly one of the shows would start suffering more than the other and need to borrow wrestlers from the other side...then, *boom*...before you know it, the brand split begins to disintegrate before it even really is solidified.
And that's just one scenario where it won't work. Maybe I'm just being a pessimist. But, I'm also pissed about how Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens are split up. That's unforgivable to the point of not putting Daniel Bryan in the 2014 Royal Rumble. That is absolute garbage. But, hey...if this works out and everyone gets an extra day off while creating newer, fresher content and very few people have to clamor and/or strain for TV time...I'll be happy. Because I see few people not in a storyline right now in WWE and I like it that way. Everyone has their spot on the card and they are establishing the title pictures very well right now in spite of the terrible injuries.
I just think that ending NXT is too hastily done. That is some of the absolute best wrestling on this planet and it'll be very interesting to see if they just end it all or do a reboot and start with all newly signed talent *cough*BobbyRoode*cough*.
One last thing. Where are the Tag Titles going to go? I really hope they start traveling too. In the end, I would hope this raises the value of the Tag Team Titles as the Women's Title's image has been soaring recently and the World Title is...well, the World Title.
Please respond with the spoiler boxes so not to disturb anyone who doesn't want to see anything and still clicked for some weird reason.
Last edited by Fish (Mon-30-May-2016 23:31:59)