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[BONUS] The First WWF Draft (Raw 3/25/02) | REWIND-A-WAI #196

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this free preview from the POST Wrestling Café — John Pollock and Wai Ting review the March 25, 2002, episode of WWF Raw featuring the inaugural draft and start of the Brand Extension. They discuss:​

  • How the WCW Invasion's failure lead to WWF’s in-house brand split
  • Stone Cold Steve Austin’s forgotten first walkout of 2002
  • Vince & Flair’s on-screen chemistry as duelling authority figures
  • How the Draft attempted to benefit new stars in Edge and Brock Lesnar
  • Dudley Boyz break-up
  • The nWo in 2002
  • Stephanie McMahon competing for the WWF World Championship 

This episode was brought to you by Espresso Executive Producer, Blake Lovell.​

Listen to the full two-hour episode in the POST Café: https://www.patreon.com/posts/first-wwf-draft-146169824

WWF Raw

Monday, March 25, 2002

Penn State University

  • Tazz vs. Mr. Perfect
  • Christian & Booker T. vs. Edge & DDP
  • Trish Stratus vs. Ivory
  • The Rock & Hulk Hogan vs. Kevin Nash, Scott Hall & X-Pac
  • Billy Gunn vs. Jeff Hardy
  • Intercontinental Championship: Rob Van Dam (c) vs. Kurt Angle
  • Undisputed WWF Championship: Triple H (c) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Stephanie McMahon

Next time on Rewind-A-Wai: WatchAlong: Royal Rumble Matches 1990 & 1995

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rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions

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Here's a sample of a free podcast from the post wrestling cafe.

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$6 gets you through the door at postwrestlingcafe.com.

0:25.5

Because we're just getting started.

0:30.0

And as you can see, Strzok what's being put together.

0:36.4

Waiting for my man. What you're ready, what you're ready, what you're ready, Scott Watsky really put together. Waiting for my man.

0:39.0

And we have landed, what you're waiting, what you're waiting, what you're waiting for.

0:46.3

Waiting for a star to fall.

0:49.4

And we have landed in March of 2002, the date of the WWF draft,

1:01.3

where members of the roster are being sent off to war.

1:06.1

A conscription in the air in the United States of America, destination Penn State University. I am John Pollock

1:13.0

alongside the man that just defies everything waiting. Dude, how do you do this? I say this so often,

1:24.2

but I marvel at your ability to do as much as you do. And somehow, the last

1:29.6

we had spoken was one in the morning. We are several hours removed. You've not only completed

1:36.4

all your regular duties, but then you fit in 90 minutes. I hope you got some rest. I hope you

1:41.7

got some food, maybe some meditation in there as well. How?

1:45.0

How do you do all of this?

1:47.0

I guess the simple answer is, you know, like, I'm a very last minute person. I've always been, you know, throughout my entire life.

1:55.0

But if I'm tasked to do something, I will find some way to finish it. um i mean i i started this like this was not that

2:05.4

bad it was only a 90 minute thing you know like the really tough ones are like if i have to go through

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