PWD 301: Everybody's Got a Price

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Wasn't the draft after Mania 18?

Yeah, that May, IIRC. Triple dropped the title at Backlash in April, but they had the free agency go on for months and that's when the Triple H segment mentioned happened (July). I remember Austin signing with Raw, just can't put a date or month to it, but it would have been before June since he left the company around there.
 
I wonder if they'll do a draft like the first one, where leaders of the shows actually pick people, or the "random" draft lottery thing they did in later years.

What if Adam Rose, Cody Rhodes, Damien Sandow, and Wade Barrett leaving was all a work, and they're the new faces of Smackdown?


$$$$$
 
Yeah, draft was a week after WM 18. Trips had just beaten Jericho for the undisputed championship.
 
Meltzer star ratings for Extreme Rules

Baron Corbin vs Dolph Ziggler - 2.25
Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows vs The Usos - 3
Rusev vs Kalisto - 3
New Day vs Vaudevillains - 2
The Miz vs Cesaro vs Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn - 4.5
Dean Ambrose vs Chris Jericho - 2
Charlotte vs Natalya - 2.5
Roman Reigns vs AJ Styles - 4.5


Just Reigns thangs...

 
That Nakamura clip is exactly why he's going to have a tough time on the main roster
 
Not sure why people are dropping a deuce on the split before it's even had a chance to happen. Could it suck rotten monkey scrotum? Sure. But I'm interested in the potential new angles.

The writing teams will be split up so that's a great thing. All that matters is how much influence will Vince have? Everything coming from him these days is garbage so if he could back up and let things happen organically for once.... Maybe just maybe this brand split will end up being a very good thing.

This company needs a punch to the face to come back to reality. Back off Vince.
 
Yeah, that May, IIRC. Triple dropped the title at Backlash in April, but they had the free agency go on for months and that's when the Triple H segment mentioned happened (July). I remember Austin signing with Raw, just can't put a date or month to it, but it would have been before June since he left the company around there.

Draft was in March. Trips went to SD after losing to Hogan at Backlash, then for some reason switched to Raw and turned heel after Vengeance, and turned heel on HBK.
 
I think Austin no-showed Raw right after WM, so he wasn't drafted at first. Then he made nice with WWF and came back, and chose Raw.
 
That Nakamura clip is exactly why he's going to have a tough time on the main roster

Just like AJ styles would be having a "tough" time being small, old or having a redneck accent... (Your own fucking words)

Nothing you say ever comes out to be actually true, shut the hell up you Camp WWE loving pansie.
 
Trips wasn't drafted because he was champ. He lost to Hogan a month after the draft and went to SD, because Hogan was on SD. He then finished his feud with Jericho. Then for some reason he went to Raw. HBK was trying to get him to Raw to join the nWo, but by the time he did go, the nWo was dead. Trips then turned heel by beating up HBK and slamming his head through a window. I don't know the storyline reason for why he was allowed to switch to Raw and wiki is silent on it.

That sounds about right, I just remember a segment on Vengeance 2002 where Eric Bischoff and Stephanie are both trying to sign him.
 
My proposed brand split system. Two rosters, one singles champ, one tag team champ, one women's champ, fuck midcard belts (they don't mean anything anyways). You get shots at the champion every other month by show. April would have a Raw contender, May a Smackdown Contender, wins and losses now matter (watching the show now matters). The Big 4 PPV, have cross brand tournaments/matches to crown contenders. King of the Ring Winner gets a shot at Summerslam. There is one Survivor Series Match and its 5 Raw guys vs 5 Smackdown guys, the team that wins has each member of their team pick a partner from the opposite show to be their partner in the tag tournament for the Royal Rumble shot (guys with most eliminations from winning team get to pick first), tag team tournament of Singles guys and the winners of this tag team tournament both get a match with the champion at Royal Rumble (Three-Way at Rumbles have always been good) and the tag teams are made up of guys from different brands which means you can have egos and unfamiliarity at play and forced tag teams caring about matches. Then of course the Royal Rumble for the one title. 2 MITB for ONE Title so champ has to face a potential cash in from a Raw guy and a Smackdown guy, and you can have angles where MITB holders cost each other cash-ins etc. Both shows are two hours, angles are about people screwing each other over from becoming the champion and getting the exposure on both shows/more money, etc.
 
you people should know hhh didn't like working tuesdays
 
My proposed brand split system. Two rosters, one singles champ, one tag team champ, one women's champ, fuck midcard belts (they don't mean anything anyways). You get shots at the champion every other month by show. April would have a Raw contender, May a Smackdown Contender, wins and losses now matter (watching the show now matters). The Big 4 PPV, have cross brand tournaments/matches to crown contenders. King of the Ring Winner gets a shot at Summerslam. There is one Survivor Series Match and its 5 Raw guys vs 5 Smackdown guys, the team that wins has each member of their team pick a partner from the opposite show to be their partner in the tag tournament for the Royal Rumble shot (guys with most eliminations from winning team get to pick first), tag team tournament of Singles guys and the winners of this tag team tournament both get a match with the champion at Royal Rumble (Three-Way at Rumbles have always been good) and the tag teams are made up of guys from different brands which means you can have egos and unfamiliarity at play and forced tag teams caring about matches. Then of course the Royal Rumble for the one title. 2 MITB for ONE Title so champ has to face a potential cash in from a Raw guy and a Smackdown guy, and you can have angles where MITB holders cost each other cash-ins etc. Both shows are two hours, angles are about people screwing each other over from becoming the champion and getting the exposure on both shows/more money, etc.
Let's take a poll on who's actually gonna read all this shit
 
That sounds about right, I just remember a segment on Vengeance 2002 where Eric Bischoff and Stephanie are both trying to sign him.

Maybe it was something as simple as him not being drafted and he wasn't supposed to have just been assigned to SD when he lost. Which, frankly, would make sense, so that's probably not it.
 
Draft was in March. Trips went to SD after losing to Hogan at Backlash, then for some reason switched to Raw and turned heel after Vengeance, and turned heel on HBK.

Cool, I could remember what happened, just not the events. TY, bro.
 
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