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Post by Joe Everyman on Apr 15, 2009 18:12:16 GMT -6
If you didn't notice, here is the total draft.
WWE United States Champion MVP goes from SmackDown to RAW Big Show goes from SmackDown to RAW WWE Women’s Champion Melina goes from RAW to SmackDown Matt Hardy goes from SmackDown to RAW WWE Champion Triple H goes from SmackDown to RAW CM Punk goes from RAW to SmackDown The Miz goes from ECW to RAW Chris Jericho goes from RAW to SmackDown Kane goes from RAW to SmackDown Vladimir Kozlov goes from SmackDown to ECW WWE Divas Champion Maryse goes from SmackDown to RAW WWE Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio goes from RAW to SmackDown Mr. Kennedy goes from SmackDown to RAW Shad Gaspard goes from RAW to SmackDown Alicia Fox goes from ECW to SmackDown Primo Colon goes from SmackDown to RAW Mike Knox goes from RAW to SmackDown Ezekiel Jackson goes from SmackDown to ECW Nikki Bella goes from SmackDown to RAW Candice Michelle goes from RAW to SmackDown Zack Ryder goes from SmackDown to ECW Chavo Guerrero goes from SmackDown to RAW Ricky Ortiz goes from ECW to SmackDown Layla goes from RAW to SmackDown Hornswoggle goes from ECW to RAW DH Smith goes from SmackDown to ECW John Morrison goes from ECW to SmackDown Carlito goes from SmackDown to RAW Natalya goes from SmackDown to ECW Festus goes from SmackDown to RAW JTG goes from RAW to SmackDown Dolph Ziggler goes from RAW to SmackDown The Brian Kendrick goes from SmackDown to RAW Charlie Haas goes from RAW to SmackDown Hurricane Helms goes from SmackDown to ECW Brie Bella goes from SmackDown to RAW
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Post by Joe Everyman on Apr 15, 2009 18:14:47 GMT -6
In my opinion, except for Helms, ECW gets ****ed again. Last year, they got Matt Hardy, and that was about it. This year, they got boned again, as usual. Smackdown got some really good picks this year, but losing Trips, the Colons and MVP will be bad, they picked up Rey, Kane, Jericho, Haas, Punk, and Morrison, which will help.
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Post by adm on Apr 15, 2009 18:40:46 GMT -6
In my opinion, except for Helms, ECW gets ****ed again. Last year, they got Matt Hardy, and that was about it. This year, they got boned again, as usual. Smackdown got some really good picks this year, but losing Trips, the Colons and MVP will be bad, they picked up Rey, Kane, Jericho, Haas, Punk, and Morrison, which will help. SD didn't get ****, sorry. ECW never gets anything cuz by the end of the year, it may not exist. It, and SD are on the chopping block wrestler wise cuz all their talent is just...everyone the WWE doesn't wanna give pushes to ever. So they move them there to put them on midcard for life. Only exception is Jericho and Kane, because they are there only to keep people watching and going to house shows, with Taker and Edge still on the card for SD that'll keep that. My Network is going under, when it does(nobody says if anymore, cuz it WILL), SD has no plan B, so it may just get Axed or moved to Sci Fi, but will at least get interrupted here in the US for multiple weeks as talks about money go down with the new network. WWECW is just plain screwed, no questions asked. And no amount of roster boosting on Raw can fix their ****ty writing...WWE has completely proved themselves to be egotistical as far as talent goes. They push the best guys, leave no room for the new guys to really get built up for the innevitable leavings of guys like HBK, Taker, Kane, Show, etc etc. So I'll just stop watching it, again...because I know they don't know how to make any feuds last longer than one PPV match, and if it does, it's only for titles. WWE sucks, TNA doesn't look too much better, what ever happened to good wrestling? It went to the indy feds...
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Post by JFK on Apr 16, 2009 12:15:06 GMT -6
heel Kennedy vs Face MVP for the US title=Better then any indy fed can give me, if they do it.
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Post by adm on Apr 16, 2009 14:19:09 GMT -6
heel Kennedy vs Face MVP for the US title=Better then any indy fed can give me, if they do it. That's the thing, will they do it? I highly doubt it...considering Kennedy is an injury magnet and if they are both on Raw they will be the backseat to whatever crazy World Title hunt with 6 of the 8 top guys they wanna pull. oh well...I'll just mark out to our awesomeness that is nCw
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Post by Philip Burns on Apr 16, 2009 17:12:09 GMT -6
fact is, if indy feds were as good as we think they would be big money makers. we are sadly a minority. i dont want ecw t get stars. to me ecw is meant to be a televised training ground. imagine if they got somebody great. then none of the younger guys would ever win. maybe give ecw one ok guy and then let the other nobodies become somebody
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Post by adm on Apr 16, 2009 17:26:15 GMT -6
What I'm worried about is not even the draft so much as the lack of good writing lately. For WM, the only feud that had really good and innovative writing was the Trips/Orton one. You don't usually see many home-invasion things, or some of the other stuff that was just a bit better than normal. The runner up was HBK vs Taker, but that was a bit TOO much ownage of Taker pre-PPV to warrant the win Taker got as legit.
I just don't think they are nearly as innovative or intelligent about keeping some of the veteran watchers enthralled...they put too much focus on the kids, not caring that their original core base has given up on them. The people who are 18-35 and watched since they were kids, though it wasn't geared toward them in the first place. Blame Vince, Blame Steph, Blame whoever you want...WWE AND TNA both haven't been doing a very good justice to us long-time fans. And sadly I don't think they ever will.
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Post by Xavier Williams on Apr 16, 2009 18:00:34 GMT -6
And once again I play the voice of reason.
ECW pretty much is okay since they have a good blend of evterans and new talent. They dont need the big name stars when they are cultivating their own, look at Swagger... he is getting better by the match and it helped that he got to work with Matt abd Finlay and now Christian.
When someone gets shipped to ECW they are there to be retooled and repackaged, look at Shelton Benjamin or even Big Show in the early run.
The draft was meh but they got what they wanted they move their batch of upper mid card toRAW to get over and they sent estaished stars to SD! As for the titles, Im guessing they might have Punk take a stab at it, though I can very easily see Y2J or Edge making a run for the case
BTW, KLB the kid demographic is the demo that most major wrestling companied aim for, just think about the crap they buy, games, shirts, toys, etc. Theyve been doing it since the 80s.
As for infyland, its okay if not I suggest you get into CHIKARA they just released their King of Trios DVDs and those shows are always good. You can ROH's HDNet show on youtube, just look up user: ROHBrazik, he has permission from HDNet and ROh. So yea if u want wrestling support Anerica indies or watch ECW.
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Post by Curtis D. Kanyon on Apr 24, 2009 1:37:35 GMT -6
ECW may not have the as big named stars, but the show probably has the most wrestling of any wrestling show on basic cable. ROH has a ton, but man does the commentary suck. But as for the draft, Raw definitely got the better deal talent wise, but the way I see it, that just means now there's a big space for top talent on SD so they can move some people up in there. Unfortunately for the Raw guys, they have too much top talent, so I don't think there will be many new world title contenders over there, which sucks cause MVP and Matt Hardy deserve to be up there soon IMO. ECW may be small and whatever, but the "top guys" of ECW somehow usually appear on every WWE show in the week, so that's probably the best exposure of all.
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