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."

 

[Jussi]

Looks already like the fans are going to be noisy in Lyon:

 

[Jussi]

Oh shit, looks like Smackdown is airing live in about 50 minutes. Yup, 8 pm Finnish time.

 

[Jussi]

Cody is over in France. As are KO and Randy.

The Role Model is over in France too! Starting with the 8 woman tag match.

 

[Jussi]

"HEEEEY BAYLEYYYYY...."

HOT crowd!

I love European wrestling fans.

 

[Jussi]

"Simplement Deux" is a term/saying I've learned now.

 

[Jussi]

Jade and Bianca looking more and more like a team. Dat double team move....

SPOILER!!!!



Dakota ate the pin.

 

[Jussi]

Hmmm, Bobby Lashley vs Carmelo Hayes feud? I'm down for that if they go that route.

 

[Jussi]

This tag match isn't anything too special, but the crowd is making it feel much more.

 

[Jussi]

That felt like a classic NXT tag match. The faces come out looking like a million bucks but in the end, the heesl win.

So Heyman pulled Roman Reigns out of the draft.

 

[Jussi]

Wow, singing Randy's theme.

Randy was really taken by the reception.

 

[Jussi]

Wow, even Paul Heyman was surprised by the crowd reaction.

"We want Roman"

 

[Jussi]

MEGA POP for La Knight.

 

[Jussi]

Hmmm, King Knight...?

Crow is so hot even for Smackdown that Backlash is going to be fun tomorrow.

 

[Jussi]

And Cody's pop topped La Knights. Jeez, this crowd is hot.

Damn giving AJ his credit too.

Fun show.

 

[GKJ]

It’s no surprise that a European crowd would eat everything up, it’s an injustice they haven’t had more TV events

 

[Jussi]

Show also ended 9 minutes early, due to fewer commercial breaks.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[sansabri]

oh no, not france

 

[Linkens Mastery]

I stayed away from Twitter for smackdown today. but, omg this crowd is amazing.