WWE Draft 2019

PTH2009

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1173294302123954177?s=19

Finally the wild card rule is ending and the draft split is returning

Who do u want to see on which brand ??

J. Marston

If Fox's ads are anything to go by they're promoting Roman, Kofi, Becky and Charlotte as their big 4.

PTH2009

so are going to have random celebs appear to announce this superstar is going here in some crappy backstage skit

Blue_Dabadee

I wish they would incorporate NXT to the draft. It would be fun to see the likes Dolph Ziggler get drafted down to NXT.

Loughc

Blue_Dabadee wrote: »

I wish they would incorporate NXT to the draft. It would be fun to see the likes Dolph Ziggler get drafted down to NXT.

Good shout and he'd actually be decent down there too.

Loughc

PTH2009 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1173294302123954177?s=19

Finally the wild card rule is ending and the draft split is returning

I will not miss the wild card rule at all!

CastorTroy

Just notice the pic includes champs and Charlotte. Why not Shinsuke instead of Charlotte? Or tag champs?
I know Charlotte's a bigger name but they have the US champ,but nit the IC champ

PTH2009

my top picks would be

Raw
Daniel Bryan
Nakamura and the IC title
Finn Balor
Randy Orton
Becky Lynch

SD
Roman Reigns
Braun Strowman
AJ Styles and the club (US title)
Bray Wyatt
Charlotte

Rock Lesnar

Said it last draft and i'll say it again, does it really matter, everybody has appeared on both shows at some stage over the years, we've seen all the matches, the same storylines, and barring 1 or 2, the same people will stay at whatever level they're at now.

They should, as mentioned above, send some of them to NXT, that would be somewhat new and might increase interest, otherwise its just the same old stuff again

SureYWouldntYa

For a draft to really matter it needs to last 2 years min imo, these days you can freshen things up with NXT callups so the roster won't be stagnant

johnnyryan89

Blue_Dabadee wrote: »

I wish they would incorporate NXT to the draft. It would be fun to see the likes Dolph Ziggler get drafted down to NXT.

Probably happen in 12 months time, need time to build up the NXT guys with TV audience first before moving them to Smackdown or Raw.

JP Liz V1

I think Orton back to Raw, a final push for the legend killer

bennyl10

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I think Orton back to Raw, a final push for the legend killer

Smackdown is gonna be the 'A' show now so SD would be for him to get a big push

Bounty Hunter

I know the wildcard nonsense muddied the water big time but some people are supposed to be Brand exclusive like Bryan is a SD guy atm and I would judge who might move also based on who they would want to avoid / be able to continue feuding with. For example if Bryan is to continue to be involved in a story line where he is involved with Roman (or Harper & Rowan) they might be sticking together. I would be keeping Brock & Roman apart and Brock could become a SD/Fox (and the champ) I could see Roman heading back to Raw (not that he ever really left) and Bryan following as he hasn't ever really been a Raw guy. Harper & Rowan could follow or they then as well but maybe they would finish their stuff with Roman before then (HIAC) and the moves or non moves of people like Strowman or Wyatt might affect where they want to be.

Chuck Noland

bennyl10 wrote: »

Smackdown is gonna be the 'A' show now so SD would be for him to get a big push

Raw will continue to be the ‘A’ show. It’s just Smackdown now won’t be all filler

Agent Coulson

Cole said his goodbye Renee on last night's RAW.

It was no secret she was moving anyway.


I'd like Cole to be taken off the screen for a good while let him produce behind the scenes and maybe do the big 4 PPV's.


Graves needs to rest away from the screen as well.

Chuck Noland

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Cole said his goodbye Renee on last night's RAW.

It was no secret she was moving anyway.


I'd like Cole to be taken off the screen for a good while let him produce behind the scenes and maybe do the big 4 PPV's.


Graves needs to rest away from the screen as well.

What did he say to her?

t.singh1

Blue_Dabadee wrote: »

I wish they would incorporate NXT to the draft. It would be fun to see the likes Dolph Ziggler get drafted down to NXT.

He wouldn't be popular there too.

t.singh1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I think Orton back to Raw, a final push for the legend killer

He will probably stay at SD Live.

CastorTroy

Any word yet on the setup for this? Random draw? Superstars selected prior to the show?

Itssoeasy

You'd assume it will be similar to the one that had in 2016. It might loom random to us watching but again you'd think the networks will have had more input this time over certain superstars being on certain shows/network.

CastorTroy

It's always around now that someone like Crews or Mojo gets moved and it's treated like a big deal. They even get a bit of a push for a couple weeks then disappear again

Lithium93_

https://twitter.com/JustinBarrasso/status/1182354524901728257

WWE Draft rules: 30 talents will be eligible to be drafted on SmackDown and 41 on Raw. Since Raw is an hour longer, it will receive 3 picks to every 2 from SD. Tag teams will count as one unless stated otherwise. Those undrafted will be "free" to sign with either brand.

CastorTroy

If my understanding of a draft is correct, it involves negotiation and if the other team is willing to let them go. Yet according to this if Raw was said they didn't want to let Rollins go, he could just move on his own?

Lord TSC

The preliminary WWE Draft Pools have been determined and designate which WWE Superstars are available for selection on each night.

Below is the full list of draft-eligible Superstars organized by assigned night:

Friday Night SmackDown – Oct. 11
Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch
Roman Reigns
The O.C. (United States Champion AJ Styles, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson)
"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt
Drew McIntyre
Randy Orton
Sasha Banks
Ricochet
Braun Strowman
Bobby Lashley
Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross
Lacey Evans
The Viking Raiders (Erik & Ivar)
SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder)
Natalya
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins)
Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Gran Metalik, Lince Dorado)
Cesaro
Kevin Owens
Humberto Carrillo
Akira Tozawa
Sin Cara
Eric Young
EC3
Chad Gable
Heath Slater
Drew Gulak
The B-Team (Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel)
Tamina

Raw – Oct. 14
Universal Champion Seth Rollins
WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
SmackDown Women’s Champion 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
Bayley
Luke Harper
Erick Rowan
The Miz
Ali
King Corbin
Elias
Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Bobby Roode
Samoa Joe
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane)
Rusev
Cedric Alexander
Rey Mysterio
R-Truth
Carmella
AOP (Akam & Rezar)
Heavy Machinery (Tucker & Otis)
Apollo Crews
Andrade
Liv Morgan
Jinder Mahal
Buddy Murphy
Mojo Rawley
No Way José
Dana Brooke
Shelton Benjamin
Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder
The IIconics (Billie Kay & Peyton Royce)
Sarah Logan
Fire & Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville)
Drake Maverick

Lord TSC

Star-studded celebrity lineup, including Alex Rodriguez, Michael Che and Colin Jost, to take part in WWE Draft
The stars will be out for the WWE Draft.

Fourteen-time MLB All-Star and FOX analyst Alex Rodriguez, "Saturday Night Live's" Michael Che and Colin Jost of "Weekend Update" segments, "Mr. Robot's" Christian Slater, "NFL on FOX's" Joe Buck and Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, and "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer are among the celebrities set to take part.

The WWE Draft will determine the rosters of Raw and SmackDown. It begins tomorrow on Friday Night SmackDown at 8 ET/5 PT on FOX and continues Monday on Raw at 8/7 C on USA Network.

Additional personalities scheduled to appear include:

* Kevin Burkhardt and Frank Thomas — FOX MLB analysts

* Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson and Tony Gonzalez — FOX NFL Sunday

* Ronde Barber, Charles Davis, Chris Spielman and Daryl Johnston — FOX NFL analysts

* Charissa Thompson, Michael Vick and Peter Schrager — FOX NFL Kickoff

* Rob Stone, Brady Quinn, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and Urban Meyer — Big Noon Kickoff

* Joel Klatt — FOX College Football analyst

* Dulé Hill of USA's "Psych" and "Suits"

* James Roday of "Psych"

* Marcus Lemonis of "The Profit"

* Margaret Josephs and Melissa Gorga of "Real Housewives of New Jersey"

* Rodney Harrison and Chris Simms — Football Night in America

* Rebecca Lowe, Robbie Mustoe and Kyle Martino — Premier League Live

J. Marston

If Becky and Charlotte swapped shows do they just hand over titles to each other?

Loughc

Christ Fox are set to overexpose all their other shows on Smackdown. Fantastic. This is going to be a car crash of a show.

Itssoeasy

Wait no Erin Andrews ? Booo I say. So smackdown tomorrow night is a basically a Fox sales pitch just using WWE ?

CastorTroy

Yeah that sounds like it's just a show with live analysis the whole way with only time for the opening match.
I can't see many WWE fans being fans of this whole thing.

Then with Raw it'll be none of that when they have more time. Though we get Shawn and Gus which is a good thing

Seems WWE are giving Fox too much control.

Itssoeasy

CastorTroy wrote: »

Yeah that sounds like it's just a show with live analysis the whole way with only time for the opening match.

Then with Raw it'll be none of that when they have more time.

Seems WWE are giving Fox too much control.

Well to be fair Fox are giving WWE a nice bit of coin so it's hardly surprising WWE are giving fox a bit more input than before.

It's being reported that Stephanie will be one making all the picks like any of the commissioners of the big American sports do. So Steph will be as beloved as roger goddell.

Lithium93_

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Well to be fair Fox are giving WWE a nice bit of coin so it's hardly surprising WWE are giving fox a bit more input than before.

It's being reported that Stephanie will be one making all the picks like any of the commissioners of the big American sports do. So Steph will be as beloved as roger goddell.

Stephanie isn't a commissioner, she's a "commissioner", now Roger Goddell, there's a commissioner you could set your watch to :pac: :pac:

despite the controversies he's overseen in his tenure :pac::pac:

Itssoeasy

I mean goddell brought make a wish kids with him to make picks and the crowd still booed him. That takes skill.

J. Marston

EC3 can't wait...

https://twitter.com/therealec3/status/1182311973008138240

PTH2009

Saw a rumour on YouTube about a few NXT main roster call ups

Riddle to SD and Gargano and Le Rhea to Raw

Omackeral

PTH2009 wrote: »

Saw a rumour on YouTube about a few NXT main roster call ups

Riddle to SD and Gargano and Le Rhea to Raw

Le Rhea Ripley is it?

Chuck Noland

J. Marston wrote: »

EC3 can't wait...

https://twitter.com/therealec3/status/1182311973008138240

Is this still an angle with him or serious?

PTH2009

Omackeral wrote: »

Le Rhea Ripley is it?

Candice lerea

J. Marston

Chuck Noland wrote: »

Is this still an angle with him or serious?

Dunno. He's very meta with it if it is an angle. He recently tweeted something like "If I mAkE mYsElF a MArTYr aNd cOMplaIN oNLinE tHeN fAnS wILL lIKe mE..."

Although that would be stealing The Revival's gimmick.

Lithium93_

Whoever runs the WWE on Fox Twitter account, clearly has a sense of humour.

J. Marston

Predictions for first picks? Becky to Smackdown. Roman to Raw.

LibSuperstar

Don't they have that Rollins/Reigns match tonight?

Loughc

LibSuperstar wrote: »

Don't they have that Rollins/Reigns match tonight?

They do indeed.

PTH2009

LibSuperstar wrote: »

Don't they have that Rollins/Reigns match tonight?

Rollins wins and his misses is moved to SD while he stays on Raw

PTH2009

Raw
Becky
The OC (Styles, Gallows and Anderson)
Drew McIntyre

SD
Roman Reigns
Fiend Bray Wyatt

PTH2009

Round 2

Raw- Randy Orton, Ricochet, Bobby Lashley

SD- Sasha Banks, Braun Strowman

PTH2009

Round 3

Raw- Alexa Bliss, Kevin Owen's, Natalya

SD- Lacey Evan's, The Revival

PTH2009

Round 4 (final round for tonight)

Raw- Viking Raiders, Nikki Cross, Street Profits

SD- Lucha House Party, Heavy Machinery

Chuck Noland

Draft is identical to the list WWE realised of the superstars

PTH2009

Free agents from the SD list
Cesaro
Humberto Carrillo
Akira Tozawa
Sin Cara
Eric Young
EC3
Chad Gable
Heath Slater
Drew Gulak
The B-Team (Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel)
Tamina

Agent Coulson

Cesaro is now just a jobber to the stars.