WWE Smackdown 4/28/23 Review - WWE DRAFT KICKS OFF WITH SOME BAFFLING DRAFT PICKS
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🗓️ 29 April 2023
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Solomonster reviews WWE Smackdown for April 28th and Night One of the WWE Draft with some baffling draft picks, including Cody Rhodes being moved away from Roman Reigns (and why the briefcase is calling his name), Raw and Smackdown talents being allowed to enter the tournament for the new World Heavyweight Title even though it will be exclusive to the Raw brand, and all the women's champions in NXT being raided by the main roster. He breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly of it all.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight was night number one of the 2023 WWE draft and the first draft under Triple |
| 0:09.0 | H. What moves would he make to shake up the WWE roster? He talked about this draft shaking |
| 0:15.3 | up the very foundation of the entire company. All talent eligible from RAW and SmackDown divided |
| 0:21.9 | up into two pools, one tonight, one coming up on RAW this Monday night. NXT talent also |
| 0:27.5 | eligible to be drafted and we did get some NXT talent drafted. Now that night one is in |
| 0:32.6 | the books, I will say SmackDown tonight was in Corpse's Christie, but I may have to start |
| 0:37.4 | calling it Corpse Christie again because it was actually I thought a pretty good crowd. |
| 0:41.4 | You guys are going to kill your gimmick if you keep making noise like this. But SmackDown |
| 0:47.0 | was in Corpse Christie tonight and I was trying to think of a word, a good word that I |
| 0:52.0 | would want to use to sum up night one of this draft. And the word I kept coming back |
| 0:58.9 | to was baffling. There were some baffling moves on this show tonight as far as the draft |
| 1:07.2 | is concerned, what they did with Cody for one, what they did with their women's champions, |
| 1:16.1 | both on the main roster and on NXT. When Shawn Michaels came out in the fourth round |
| 1:21.5 | of the draft tonight to announce the picks. And he was talking about how unhappy he was. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm not very happy to make this announcement. He wasn't working you. I am sure that Shawn |
| 1:35.1 | Michaels was not very pleased with some of the moves that were made and some of the people |
| 1:40.4 | he lost in the draft tonight. But just some baffling moves and then when I hear Triple H come |
| 1:49.5 | out and I hear some of the other presenters come out and they're talking about raw selects |
| 1:55.8 | and SmackDown selects. You know, we have the NFL draft is ongoing right now. You hear them say, |
| 2:01.7 | you know, with the fourth pick and the draft, you know, such and such team selects. They're |
| 2:06.8 | trying to make it out to be like a real draft. The only problem is who exactly is doing the |
| 2:11.7 | selecting. It's just goofy. Raw has no general manager. SmackDown has no general manager. |
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