General Draft Discussion

Reported by Ryan Clark

WWE officials had talks this past week to shake up the roster in the near future. They plan on doing another draft after WrestleMania.

Perosnally, the rosters do need some shaking up. On Raw and Smackdown we have very little feuds left.

The only problem is they don't do anything big or drastic with the drafts. They draft a couple of upper mid carders but the rest of the trades are pointless. We should see Undertaker move over to Raw. And HBK move to Smackdown. Put somebody over to ECW who can help all the younger talent. We also need to see mid card shuffle a bit. Move Carlito, Matt Hardy, Kennedy, Jeff Hardy, Umaga, etc. move around a bit too.

The draft sounds like a good idea to me but hopefully they don't screw thingsup royally like they did with last years draft.

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the problem with the draft is that with the brand split there is such limited talents on each roster....i think we all agree on this. With the small rosters, the feuds get old real fast because there is no one else to feud with...thus making this dumb brand extension very boring and stale. If Vince would ever end the brand splits....the possibilities are endless with storylines and surprises and feuds.

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the problem with the draft is that with the brand split there is such limited talents on each roster....i think we all agree on this. With the small rosters, the feuds get old real fast because there is no one else to feud with...thus making this dumb brand extension very boring and stale. If Vince would ever end the brand splits....the possibilities are endless with storylines and surprises and feuds.

Ok for the millionth time, vince would never end the brand extension, you know it, i know it even the whole mcmahon family knows it, it makes too much money for the company

nack on topic i think im gonna love this draft in 2008, i want some main eventers in the ecw brand man give me val venis and give me the guys that raw and smackdown wont push and let them shine in ecw

[Saiko]

Cruiserweight title should go to ECW
Wrestlers like funaki, jimmy wang yang,s. moore, j. noble, jessie should go to ECW. i think cody rhodes is also a cruiserweight so he would also do fine! Perhaps even supercruiserweights Mysterio and Chavo geurrero should go to ECW.
Carlito, mr kennedy and c. palumbo to ECW to heat up the competition for the ecw champ.
Big daddy V to raw or smackdown.
and perhaps a BIG trade between RAW and SMACKDOWN like:
Taker for HHH
Kane for HBK
Egde for HBK
Edge for Orton
...

[CelticPride101]

yea if there gunna do a draft please help out ecw before you help out the "A" show raw cause look at what they left ecw with not a lot bring me kennedy or trevor murdoch or mvp hell i'll take santino this draft should be dedicated to help out ecw but u cant forget about the other shows

i think most of u r right, money has 2 be spent most 4 ecw not big ppl like hbk or hhh mid carders, n it happened this yr wit chris benoit (rip) but we no wot happend there. but maybe a kennedy or a val venis, carlito, or a upper midcarder like jeff hardy.

U cant 4get raw or smackdown they need a shake up

Taker for HHH
Kane for HBK
Egde for HBK
Edge for Orton

that could be right maybe leave the champs but even a mysterio 4 a kennedy, a mvp 4 a hhh, a batista 4 a hbk, the rosters need 2 be shaken we hav seen repeated feuds, edge n batista, hbk n rko we need a shake up

billy
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Undertaker,the main star,has to get back to the main show.Orton could go to Smack Down to feud with Edge.Batista sholud pe traded for Triple H or HBK .It will be nice to see another feud between Undertaker and Randy Orton,if undertaker stays in smack down,and some one like rey mysterio is traded for orton

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Everyone wants to have all these main eventers traded, and you can't trade alomst all of them for each other because you will have them feuding with themselves once again. This should be really focused on shaking up the mid card level....like everyone else saud ECW could use some people. With Kofi going there and the Dudleys want out and to come back all you really need is about two-three more to have a respectible roster. The problem though is that ECW is sharing with Smackdown so i don't see them spending much time on ECW when they can just send them to Smackdown and still use them for Ecw. I would like to see Jeff Hardy go from Raw to ECW, i think he would be perferct and would love to see Morrison v. Hardy again for the title.

[AnthonyMango/NoFate007]

What they really need to focus on is not "give more to ECW" or something, but balancing out the trio. Because of the ECW/Smackdown exchange, they don't need to both have equal standing as Raw, but TOGETHER they should have a slight edge.

Since this will be a long chart, I'll post it in a second reply, not this post, but the following post from me is how I'd set up the rosters (and thusly, how things would look like after the draft that I'd do) since to me, it seems the most balanced and logical.....

[AnthonyMango/NoFate007]

RAW Main Event:
1. John Cena / Edge
2. HBK / MVP
3. Jeff Hardy / John Morrison
4. Batista / Umaga

SMACKDOWN Main Event:
1. HHH / Mr. Kennedy
2. Undertaker / Randy Orton
3. Chris Jericho / Shelton Benjamin
4. Rey Mysterio / Big Daddy V

ECW Main Event:
Faces: Kane & CM Punk
Heels: Elijah Burke & Mark Henry

Structure: If you look at it, there’s an equal balance. The first faces are the “supermen” (Cena/HHH), then the second faces are veterans that want limited work time (HBK/Taker), and the third and fourth are popular swing votes. The heels start with the great talkers that are top heels and well rounded (Edge/Kennedy), then the second grouping (ie Orton/MVP) are more mat-based, followed by the third grouping which are more aerial (Morrison/Benjamin), and rounded out by a monster (Umaga/BDV). The wildcard in the situation is ECW, which gives spotlight to two faces that would be downplayed if they were in the other brands (Kane and CM Punk), has its own monster (Henry), and balances it out with a top heel (Burke), but since they can take people from Smackdown, you could also have Orton challenge CM Punk or Kane challenge Mr. Kennedy, etc, allowing for more options than it looks like for ECW.

RAW Midcard:
1. Lashley / Carlito
2. Cody Rhodes / Santino Marella
3. Jimmy Wang Yang / Kenny Dykstra
4. Chuck Palumbo / Lance Cade

SMACKDOWN/ECW Midcard:
1. Matt Hardy / Kevin Thorn
2. D.H. Smith / Jamie Noble
3. Shannon Moore / The Miz
4. Kofi Kingston / Chavo Guerrero

Structure: First faces are the well rounded guys that could carry the belts (Lashley/Hardy), followed by the rookies (Rhodes/Smith), high flyers (Yang/Moore), and then the random ones (Palumbo/Kingston). The faces go from well rounded guys that could carry the belts (Carlito/Thorn) to the gifted talkers (Satino/Noble), two young guys that are increasingly impressive despite how a lot of people don’t like them (Dykstra/Miz), and the random ones (Cade/Chavo).

TAG TEAM
Faces: Londrick & the Daltons
Heels: Major Bros & Deuce/Domino

Structure: Just pick one from each. You can fill out the rest of your tag team division by teaming up midcarders (example, Matt Hardy and Shannon Moore) or with filler people (ie Funaki & Super Crazy as a tag team)

FILLER
Well Rounded Veterans: Val Venis / Hardcore Holly
Comedy Figures: Hacksaw / Balls Mahoney
Squash Flyers: Funaki / Super Crazy
Tough Guys: Snitsky / Mike Knox
Other: Finlay, Tommy Dreamer, Trevor Murdoch, Charlie Haas, Taylor, McIntyre, Highlanders, Boogeyman, Nunzio, Steven Richards, Khali