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So who does everyone expect to be the new GMs of raw and smackdown. I can see triple h or William regal taking control of raw and Daniel Bryan control one smackdown, I don't know if Bryan is ready for that sort of role yet but being back part of WWE via the CWC shows he is more comfortable being around wrestling again. Bryan is the sort of guy to bring viewers to smackdown and prior to his retirement he did speak about wanting to rejuvenate smackdown.
He is but after the brand spilt it's hard to know exactly what NXT will be and should triple H not be one of the GM's regal makes sense to be Steph's pick, the other option that makes sense is Bischoff but he seemed to pretty much say he was done with wrestling on legends with JBL.
Bischoff is appearing on WCPW in August, so any tiny chance of it being him on RAW is basically gone now. Would've marked out hard if his theme hit as Steph was introducing her GM, though.
Haven't watched SD in at least three or four years, yet this brand split actually has me looking forward to an episode of it, and thankfully Fox 8 will have it live.
First episode of the CWC was pretty great. If only we could get the same consistent quality that NXT, and now the CWC, are producing on the main roster.
They put on some good matches, Nakamura vs Balor was fantastic also thou I don't know if Nakamura will top the zayn match in his NXT run. Next weeks NXT looks to have good matches too with Bayley vs Nia Jax, AA vs Authors of Pain and Joe vs Rhyno. Looks like it will be Jaxs last NXT match with rumours of her going up to the main roster with Balor as part of the brand spilt, I really hope Nia Jax is not Sasha Banks mystery partner at battleground surely that will be Bayley with her moving up to the main roster full time after summer slam.
I don't get why Jax would be going up anyway she is not ready particularly when it comes to in ring skills. Also they already have to many heels on the main roster the only faces they have are Sasha, Becky Lynch and Paige.
RAW has the first overall pick
Since SmackDown Live is a two-hour show and RAW is three hours, for every two picks SmackDown Live receives, RAW will receive three picks
Tag Teams count as one pick unless a Commissioner/General Manager specifically only wants one member of the team
Six draft picks will be made off the NXT roster
The list of current WWE Superstars eligible for the WWE Draft will be as follows:
Male Superstars
AJ Styles
Alberto Del Rio
Apollo Crews
Baron Corbin
Big Show
Braun Strowman
Bray Wyatt
Brock Lesnar
Cesaro
Chris Jericho
Darren Young (w/ Bob Backlund)
Dean Ambrose – WWE Champion
Demon Kane
Dolph Ziggler
Erick Rowan
Jack Swagger
John Cena
Kalisto
Kevin Owens
Mark Henry
Neville
Randy Orton
Roman Reigns
Rusev (w/ Lana) – United States Champion
Sami Zayn
Seth Rollins
Sheamus
Sin Cara
The Miz (w/ Maryse) – Intercontinental Champion
Titus O’Neil
Zack Ryder
Tag Teams
Breezango (Fandango and Tyler Breeze)
Enzo and Cass (Enzo Amore and Big Cass)
Gallows and Anderson (Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson)
Golden Truth (Goldust and R-Truth)
Shining Stars (Epico and Primo)
Social Outcasts (Bo Dallas, Curtis Axel and Heath Slater)
The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor)
The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley)
The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) – Tag Team Champions
The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso)
The Vaudevillains (Aiden English and Simon Gotch)
Female Superstars
Alicia Fox
Becky Lynch
Charlotte – WWE Women’s Champion
Dana Brooke
Eva Marie
Naomi
Natalya
Paige
Sasha Banks
Summer Rae
Interesting to see who the NXT picks will be I would assume Balor, Bayley, Nia Jax than maybe American Alpha after that it's hard to see who would be the other two picks since Samoa Joe is champ and not going anywhere and Nakamura is preobably not coming up till his program with Joe is finished. Interesting to note too that the WWE does not include the Lucha Dragons as a tag team rather sin cara and Kalisto are listed as singles competitors.
Daniel Bryan as the SD GM was a surprise to no one considering WWE accidentally spoilt that one already, Foley on RAW was a bit of a surprise though. Though it was HHH for all money, while holding out a secret little hope that it was Bischoff.
- Finn Balor to Raw, possibly reuniting with Gallows & Anderson
- Styles to SmackDown splits up "The Club"
- Pretty much all the NXT talent expected to be called up were, with the exception of Bailey (could still happen on the Network)
- At the moment, Bray Wyatt has no family