Genuinely I could see Corbin turning back into his sad, down on his luck character from a couple of years ago as he helplessly shows up on both brands begging to get signed.

It’s my understanding that when one wrestler murders another wrestler in Puerto Rico there are no consequences.

Yeah I’m sort of expecting a return to Bum Ass Corbin. Maybe Judgment Day pick him up when he’s at his lowest.

Corbin comes to the realization that neither show wants him because he is a bad guy. He takes to the streets to fight injustice and earn his way into WWE fans’ hearts.

Someone get the AI to come up with gimmicks for these guys.

Yes. Then get Helms and Molly together and they can be a wrestling version of The Avengers. It’s probably about time for WWE to tap into the zeitgeist of 2012.

#POTY

Giving NXT draft picks and running it like that would just cause another issue though in that people would notice they always make shitty picks and never take a big star/team.

One last piece of WWE's nonsensical rules.

Indi Hartwell had to vacate the NXT Women's Championship since she got drafted to Raw.
The NXT Women's Tag Champions get to bring those titles to Smackdown with them.

????

LOL exactly!

If they're serious about the brand split, they should definitely make the men's and women's tag team titles brand exclusive.

Big Oof Oakerson

Big news: the ring announcers have swapped shows.

Which could be kinda awkward as the now Raw announcer is engaged to Ricochet who’s ex has just be brought up to Raw.

Sometimes you just gotta katana chance

Not only do I think they want him to get his legs under him with a heel run in NXT, but I think he's someone that should probably get a bigger debut than just being a random draft pick.

No reason they can't have him turn up on Raw as a surprise sometime in the summer or fall whenever they deem him ready to go.

Cora Jade was rumored to be getting drafted but with Bron staying put I'm not surprised she did too. She will probably debut roughly around the same time Bron does to keep them together.

I’m fine with Bron Breakker being in NXT for a little bit more. I think he’s ready enough, but you’ve got to have a plan.

Can HHH do a long term story that brings Cody vs Roman 2.0?

Vince wouldn't be able to (short)

Tony couldn't (too long term)

Maybe HHH is juuuuust right.

Wait. Which brand drafted Gable Steveson?

Kinda want to see Imperium turn face by going after the judgement day.

Like imagine how much you could tease gunther getting his hands on dominic. Milk it enough and that one chop will get an earth shattering pop.

I'm down with that. I feel like Imperium are bound to naturally go face anyway. It's not like they're constantly badmouthing America and getting cheap "foreign" heat, people genuinely like to see Gunther fuck dudes up.

Looks like it's going to be an inter-promotional match at Night of Champions

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Why? It's the Raw belt.

So Roman Reigns can win it

It's such an odd choice considering they just did the draft. They can't even pretend :smh:

Doesn't seem like they're going for a "hard split" since RAW has both the men's and women's tag team champions.

This fucking company :lol:

Did they actually say the belt was going to be exclusive to Raw? I didn’t watch. I was under the impression it’s just another belt for when Roman isn’t there.

Oh God. It was bad enough when they made another world title right after unifying the two they had. If they just use this as a secondary title being defended on the same shows as Reigns but call it a world title just to force the “world champion” label on guys… Holy shit.

Really, it just makes it "super obvious" that the RAW guy is gonna win is what it does

It was sort of implicit surely?

“Because when Roman gets drafted, he will take the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship with him and he will stay there. The other brand will determine a new Champion.”

He was drafted to SmackDown hence the new belt is for Raw. Why would I SmackDowm guys be involved?

If that’s not the case the setup is even worse.

They should just throw it out there and say if the winner is from Smackdown, he will become a RAW exclusive.

I mean, it would still be super obvious that the RAW guy would be winning, but at least it will try to cover it up a little.

The way Triple H talked about the belt initially, he kind of said it could be defended anywhere. I’m just wondering if they actually said the belt’s going to be Raw exclusive or if that was just what fans ran with because it’s how it’s been done in the past? I legit don’t know.

The way he described it it was the 24/7 Champiosnhip :lol:

So on Backlash they definitely stated Raw had the new championship.