SmackDown LIVE(!), July 19th 2016 - All Shook Up

[FunKay the Inevitable]

TONIGHT!

The Draft!​

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Vince McMahon once said "It's time to shake things up again!" It's a soundbite we've all heard time and time again and usually it leads to some fairly mediocre results. Well tonight, that isn't the case. For the first time, in a long time, WWE faces seismic changes as Stephanie and Shane McMahon's sibling rivalry forces the company to tear itself in two once more.

The GM's!
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Stephanie and RAW brought in a living legend, a bonafide Hall of Famer and all round great guy Mick Foley. Meanwhile Shane and the blue brand brought back the biggest fan favourite of the last decade and a man whose career was tragically cut short inside the square circle - Daniel Bryan! As these two popular men battle, how will they influence not only the draft, but the programmes they respectively control?

The Rules!
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With tonight's WWE Draft on the premiere of SmackDown Live on USA Network fast approaching, WWE.com answers the biggest questions of the WWE Universe with a breakdown of the official rules, regulations and procedures for one of the biggest nights in WWE history — including a major update that will change the face of NXT as well.

The rules for the WWE Draft are as follows:

• 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:

Spoiler

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

Oh, and a Title Match Too...
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Controversy and chaos lead to luke warm finish to last night's RAW main event with Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose battling to a draw with the Heavyweight Championship of the World on the line. So tonight, once again, they go toe-to-toe for the gold. Will things go the same way again tonight or is there going to be a conclusive finish?

In the Immortal Words of Booker T...

"Dis Gon' Be Goot!"
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[Deoxyribonucleic A.C.I.D.]

LET'S GOO

 

[Spidey Revivey]

At work, but best believe I'm keeping up with this.

 

[Navi]

It's on the network now, the preshow I mean. Nothing has happened yet Spidey. There is apparently an aftershow as well. Just to let everyone know.

 

[Dave]

Quick question: American Alpha, Nakamura, Balor, and Bayley ought to be 5 of the 6 who come up to the main roster tonight. But who is the 6th?

 

[Da Prophet]

How far do the US and IC Champions fall?

 

[Spidey Revivey]

Joe maybe

 

[Navi]

Quick question: American Alpha, Nakamura, Balor, and Bayley ought to be 5 of the 6 who come up to the main roster tonight. But who is the 6th?

I'm hearing everyone from Samoa Joe to Nia Jax to Corey Graves and everyone in-between as the 6th to come up.

 

[Nate DaMac]

Quick question: American Alpha, Nakamura, Balor, and Bayley ought to be 5 of the 6 who come up to the main roster tonight. But who is the 6th?

Teams count as one pick.

 

[Harthan]

Nia seems very likely to move up. I think she's more or less already at her ceiling, so why not.

 

[BaconBits]

Quick question: American Alpha, Nakamura, Balor, and Bayley ought to be 5 of the 6 who come up to the main roster tonight. But who is the 6th?

Mojo Rawley. The Hype Bros would be very useful with two seperate tag divisions.

 

[@smarkmouth]

Teams count as one pick.

True, but could it be argued that it's still two drafted names? Almost a two picks for one scenario. In fact, I'm wondering if they did it that way, if it would affect Raw's 3 picks for every 2 from Smackdown.

 

[Sean Valjean]

I'm just glad teams count as one pick. Splitting tag teams was probably the thing I feared most about draft.

 

[Nate DaMac]

I'm just glad teams count as one pick. Splitting tag teams was probably the thing I feared most about draft.

It can still happen.

 

[Black Anaconda Vise]

I completely forgot battleground was this Sunday

 

[Deoxyribonucleic A.C.I.D.]

I see a storyline playing out, similiar to Undertaker's 2002 storyline, when Flair chose him for RAW when Vince had promised to draft him to SD.

 

[BaconBits]

Here we go. Darren Young for first pick overall.

 

[Sean Valjean]

It can still happen.

True, but that rule makes it less likely.

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Rollins at #1.

 

[Black Anaconda Vise]

Oh wow Ambrose to smackdown

 

[Navi]

Here we go. Darren Young for first pick overall.

LOL I'd take Backlund instead.

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

#1 (for SmackDown): Dean Ambrose

 

[@smarkmouth]

CrossFit Jesus reference! Amazing! Will they call Ambrose the Titty Master?

 

[Nate DaMac]

No surprises so far.

 

[@smarkmouth]

Foley's reading lines off a notebook.