WINC WWE Mock Draft Results: Who Went Number One?, Trades, New Division, Supplemental Picks, Winner?

WWE announced Wednesday afternoon that WWE SmackDown would be going live in July with it’s very own cast, essentially confirming that the brand extension would be returning. On the mid-week edition of the Wrestling Inc. Podcast, hosts Sean Ross Sapp and Rob McCarron capitalized by hosting the Wrestling Inc. WWE Mock Draft, which you can see above, or listen to below. On the show, the panel talks about their strategies for their picks, and the lasting effect this will have on all three brands (NXT included).

Below are a short list of rules:

– If a champion is selected, that title goes to your show, but new titles can be created.

– Given Triple H’s role, he can’t be selected. With Ryback and Undertaker’s future uncertain, they can’t be either.

– Only officially contracted WWE talent can be picked (not Bobby Roode or Eric Young)

– Factors include drawing power, the length of the shows, upside of the talents, creating a unique program, and the show lengths.

– Try to weaken your opposition in the spirit of competition.

– Tag teams can be selected collectively or split.

– 25 selections are made, followed by a random supplemental draft. Trades are available.

Rundown of the draft:

The opening round saw interesting selections, as Sean picked John Cena for Raw over WWE Champion Roman Reigns. The reason given was that on a three hour program, Cena is able to fill up more promo time than Reigns for Smackdown, at least in a successful manner. Reigns went #2 to Rob. The top of the singles division were solidified in round two with Seth Rollins (Raw) and AJ Styles (Smackdown.)

Raw decided that a numbers game would be wise to play and controversially took the Wyatt Family in round 3. This effectively gave them Bray Wyatt as a singles star and Rowan/Harper as a tag team. Smackdown (Rob) revealed his plan to make Smackdown a “New Era” based show, and felt pressure to play the numbers game, taking Enzo & Cass in round 3, New Day in round 5, American Alpha in round 9, and Anderson & Gallows in round 10.

Raw chose to stack their singles divisions, taking Brock Lesnar, Shinsuke Nakamura, Samoa Joe, Dean Ambrose, Rusev and Finn Balor in the top ten. Raw also selected Women’s Champion Charlotte in the top 10, later bolstering it with Sasha Banks, Bayley, Becky Lynch, Asuka, Alex Bliss and Natalya. This gives them the opportunity to have a top women’s program, as well as a strong secondary as well.

While Raw took the majority of the women’s division, Rob’s Smackdown expressed a desire to create a Cruiserweight division unique to their program. To establish it, Smackdown selected former Mexican megastar Andrade Cien Almas, Kalisto, Austin Aries, Tyler Breeze, Rich Swann, and the brand new NXT tag team of TM61. This gave them 8 solid names to build the division around. Smackdown would later get the Shining Stars and Tye Dillinger in the supplemental round

In an effort to thwart Smackdown’s growing cruiserweight division and establish Raw’s extremely dry tag team division, Sean selected NXT tag …

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