WWE Draft 2011

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* John Cena goes from RAW to SmackDown.

* Rey Mysterio goes from SmackDown to RAW.

* Randy Orton goes from RAW to SmackDown.

* Mark Henry goes from RAW to SmackDown.

* Sin Cara goes from RAW to SmackDown.

* Big Show goes from SmackDown to RAW.

* Alberto Del Rio goes from SmackDown to RAW.

* John Cena goes back to RAW from SmackDown.

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Raw:
Jack Swagger
Kelly Kelly
JTG
Drew McIntyre
Curt Hawkins
Chris Masters
Kofi Kingston
Tyler Reks
Beth Phoenix

Smackdown:
Daniel Bryan
The Great Khali and Ranjin Singh
Jimmy Uso
Alicia Fox
William Regal
Yoshi Tatsu
Natalya
Jey Uso
Ted Dibiase
Tyson Kidd
Alex Riley
Tamina
Sheamus

[scotta75]

    The first thing I would like to say is RAW was awesome there was some great matches, however, the draft was just worthless in my eyes. WWE should consider dropping the whole draft angle because it is not doing nothing for the WWE. In this thread I am going to break down or do my best to show what I thought was wrong with the draft.

John Cena- First off you waste a so-called number one draft pick on him only later to have him be the last draft back to RAW! This is one the most stupid thing I have ever since in WWE history, come on if you want your fans to believe that draft means something then you should have left John Cena drafted to Smackdown or not even drafted him at all. That would be like Buffalo Bills drafting Cam Newton only to have Green Bay Packers so their last pick and draft Cam Newton it makes no sense! Also with Cena staying on RAW let's me know that they have no plans on putting the World title on Alberto Del Rio, and they are going to put it on Christian but then again I could be wrong about this but it seems like it is going to happen like this I hope it does not but it all signs points to yes.

Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara once again the WWE drop the ball big time on this because all you hear is that Sin Cara is going to be the one who is going to replace Rey Mysterio, but yet you draft Rey to RAW and Sin Cara to Smackdown! What is wrong with this picture anyone? I will tell you what is wrong with this whole thing you had a chance to make huge money off of Mysterio vs Sin Cara feud but you decide to put them on different shows when you make huge money from this and have Rey pass the torch to Sin Cara. This tells me that WWE is not ready for Sin Cara to be a huge superstar in the WWe or they feel that Rey still has some good years left in him and want to push him on RAW, I am not for sure what the deal is but they drop the ball on this one.

It is time to shake things up is what the draft is suppose to do in the WWE, it is take wrestlers who have gone stale on brand and put them on another brand so they can play to a different crowd right? Then tell me why in the hell did Cena stay on RAW when it is clear his run on RAW has been played out, and it is time for him to get off RAW and move to Smackdown for a run over there. RAW has it superstars and it is Smackdown that is in need of some serious star power with Edge gone now, do not get me wrong SmackDown has some decent talent and they need someone like Cena on Smackdown and give RAW fans a break from him. This draft was dull at best because it did nothing it change nothing.

 I forgot too mention this which shows just how dull this draft was too me what the hell is going to happen to the Tag Team titles now? The Big Show was drafted to RAW and Kane is still on Smackdown so does this mean that they will continue to defend the tag titles while one is on RAW and other half is Smackdown? Just goes to show me the WWE has no clue what they are doing with this lack luster draft.

  I have a couple of suggestions on how to improve the draft my first suggestion is to drop it all together because this year's show that nothing is going to change. Another thing would be get rid of the brands they have run their course and it is time to bring the roster back together, the draft is useless the brands are useless and if you want to shake things up WWE go back to have one world champion for the whole WWE roster.

[BlowUpYourVideo]

I think the thing with Cena was to show that the draft is really random and 'anything can happen' etc. You know, "oh, Smackdown thought they had bagged Cena but no!", that sort of thing. The shows don't get to choose who they draft....

The Tag Team Champions can appear on both shows so I assume that Show and Kane will just appear together on both Raw and Smackdown until they lose them.

The word on Sin Cara is that they moved him to Smackdown so they can edit his matches, as he's made a few botches recently. So no, I don't think they do think he's ready to be a big star yet.

I don't think it "sucked balls", my biggest issue is that it seems like a ton of guys who used to be on Raw are now on Smackdown and vice versa (after the supplemental draft at least).

I don't think ending the brand split would necessarily do any good, because a lot of guys would then just be shunted down the card or even released if WWE can't fit them all onto their shows....

[Yankee1012]

I knew Cara wasn't going to stay on RAW after Mysterio moved to RAW. One I dont think Mysterio wants to be on the same show as Sin Cara. Also Cara could use a little while on Smackdown because he needs to get used to this move-set, and working with the WWE wrestlers. Plus Smackdown is an edited show, so they can edit his matches if he botches like he has done (not all of them have been his fault though).

The draft didn't suck IMO. I thought it was alright. It mixed things up for now, but I'm sure things will get stale in a few months or so. Orton, Sheamus, Bryan, and Dibiase moving to Smackdown should be good moves.

I would have liked Del Rio to stay on Smackdown, but I had a feeling they would move him to RAW. Kingston moving back to RAW was a good move, and he doesn't have to deal with Orton this time lol.

I didn't like the fact that RAW got all these heel mid-carders. I feel like some of them will get lost in the shuffle. I mean they got Swagger who could do well since he is with Cole, McIntyre, Ziggler, Ryder, Truth, Reks etc. It seems like its going to be a flavor of the month type of deal with some of them.

Smackdown got some talented wrestlers in the draft. Kidd, Bryan, Tatsu, Regal should make for some good matches.

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I think BlowUp covered all the reasons why it didn't quite suck, Tag Titles being defended on all brands, Sin Cara needing editing, and the roster being too big for no brand split etc.

Some moves are irrelevant.  Whether JTG and Reks are on RAW...or Smackdown, they'll still just be on Superstars every week until they are released, remember past supplemental drafts, 5 or 6 guys often get cut before even showing up on their new brand.

With Hawkins on RAW I demand a Ryder & Hawkins reunion.  Since they were a tag team both have developed as wrestlers, characters, performers, they could be a great team again, well if WWE liked teams....

Alex Riley on Smackdown?  Was he really ready to break out of The Miz's shadow?  Or will he get lost in the shuffle?  I hope he gets a push, he is very talented IMO. 

I was surprised at the Nexus & Corre not losing anyone, maybe these stables have more longeivity, either that or they were kept together for the future feuds coming out of their splits.  Mason vs Punk and Zeke vs Wade.

As Yankee said, Bryan, Regal and Kidd to Smackdown is good.  I always view that as the "wrestling" show out of the 2.  I still remember the awesome Mysterio, Edge, Guerreros, Benjamin, Haas, Angle, Lesnar, Benoit, Finlay, Regal days.  They always seemed to have a 20 minute + wrestling match every week featuring some of these top talents.  Heck Finlay even made Lashley look good.