WWE: Raw and Smackdown Part 4 - The Paul Levesque Era

[FriendlyGhost92]

Damage CTRL and KO were drafted before CM Punk... LWO was drafted before Drew McIntyre.

Please... Please do not format the draft like this ever again. You should've let it die with Vince's legacy. This makes zero sense. Nobody with half a brain would ever pick like this.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Drew being drafted late was on purpose because his character is built around complaining and it directly lead to a segment.

 

[GKJ]

In a conceptualized draft concept, there would be legitimate concerns around CM Punk not only being older, but clearly more injury prone.

But the draft is something that comes along when it does, and it forgotten about almost as soon as it's over.

In 2023, night 1, the Street Profits were a 2nd round pick, over Imperium (includes Walter), Drew McIntyre, and the OC was drafted ahead of Damage CTRL.

Night 2, Austin Theory was the 1st overall pick for Smackdown, ahead of Seth Rollins (who was about to be champion), the Usos (had just main evented Wrestlemania Night 1), and Ronda Rousey (who was in a tag team with Shayna in round 4).

 

[Leon Lucius Black]

Happy that Dijak got drafted to the main roster. After being wasted as "T-Bar", he's been killing it in NXT.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

The entire interview is worth watching honestly. He goes off on a 5 minute rant about Michael Cole, Cole then texts McAfee as they're signing off and says "Thanks for defending me. Senior citizen? f*** off."