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Dayveonne, Ryan and Kyle break down the 2024 WWE Smackdown draft. What they liked, what they hated and more.
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The moment Vince was gone is when I had hope again
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Right. So we have the champions, like we said, Cody Rhodes, Bailey
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Logan Paul, and A-Town down under. Oh, God, Jesus. Oh, trust me
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I'm loving this for a good reason. I hate to. Continue. All right
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So we have Bianca Belair, which is a smart move. Yes. First draft pick for SmackDown, and they go with the former champ
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but they are trying to push Bianca in some direction. They just don't know which direction yet
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Exactly. But it may be a thing once Backlash is over and she is maybe part of the tag team champions for the women
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Carmelo hates him. They kind of have been starting to give him a little push
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he just had a match with Cody. I mean, you don't get really much bigger than that on that brand
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Yeah. Randy Orton. Nia Jax. L.A. Knight. Yeah
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Yeah. Yeah. The Bloodline. So they have that faction. They have the Bloodline on the show with fewer factions
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Yeah, here's the thing, though. The Bloodline, as of right now, is just two people and Paul Heyman
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Right. two people and friend. Yeah, it's a tag team more than it is a faction, really
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Yeah. So you have Adrade, the OC, Baron Corbett. Now, I do feel as though I could see Baron Corbett and the OC
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becoming a faction for some strength review. Maybe. Baron Corbett's done a lot of good work at NXT to revamp his image
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and certainly it's not with John Breaker to help that. Cedric Alexander
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and Ashanti Adonis? The Adonis. The last surviving member of Hit Row
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really. Yeah, pretty much. Not really. Okay, there's B-Fab, but B-Fab is with
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the Almighty. He's a man on his own. Well, she's married. but I can still admire her
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a mile away. She is the Wonder Woman of all Wonder Womans
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Jane Cargill. Cargill. Cargill. Cargill. They're not Argyle
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As far as you know. Exactly. Kevin Owens. The Pride. Naomi Yeah Kelsey Green and Piper Niven Niven Pretty dead Hold on Do we know that Chelsea Green is definitely
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staying on SmackDown? Because we just saw her going to NXT for the face Roxanne Perez
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As far as we know, she's been drafted to SmackDown, so who knows what's going to happen in that angle
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Alright, alright. We'll see. Who knows? This one, you know they're going to build, they're going to
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bring back the faction. You got Candice LeRae, India Hartwell, and hashtag DIY
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The way! Give me the hand! You mean Triple H and Shawn Michaels
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Give me the hand! And I love the fact that right now DIY is still in contention
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as a tag team. Going up against the champs of their former partner
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Austin Theory. Yes, that makes more sense. There is a gif of Austin Theory
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just looking at his phone like every time Johnny Gargano posts something, it's like, you see
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that post. Yeah. Let's also not forget Pretty Deadly's part of the
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list, too. Yeah, I said that. Oh. He did say Pretty Deadly. Although
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Pretty Deadly is a weird tag team, I gotta admit. Like, I don't know
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if I can take them seriously. Of all the tag teams in WWE
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they are the one team that I feel like they'd probably just be better
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at commentary. And wrestling. They are the... They're good. They're Irish boys just like myself, but
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they've done so much as like hosts and doing promos and stuff like that
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It's like... Dude, just make them more make pieces. they don't necessarily need to compete
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And as of right now, there aren't that many tag teams, really
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on SmackDown as opposed to Raw. Right. So I don't really know how much competition you're really going to have
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in that division. All right, the next line up, we have the leader of the golf
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Blair Davenport. Yeah, another good call-up, I have to say. Apollo Cruz
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Do you think he's going to keep his premonition gimmick going? I have no idea
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You can't see into the future like he can? No. We can't see that
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right now on screen? No. Giovanni Vitsi. Yes. The reject
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of the Imperium. And the last but not least, Tegan Nox. I do have to say
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she got a little shafted. Hopefully this will give Tegan Nox an opportunity
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to get pushed up a little bit. Here's hoping. You always hope that
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with this draft, whether people have been moved to a new location
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to try something new or someone is being given fresh bodies to work with
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on their brand, you hope that it does like like the phrase goes a rising tide lifts all ships so hopefully Teagan will not get lost into the mix like apparently she was back during Vince reign into Triple H reign
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where it really didn't seem like some of the women they knew what to do with. Yep. Hopefully the draft, out of all the groups to benefit from the draft
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I really hope they help revitalize the women's division. because you can't just keep ping-ponging it back
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between Becky Lynch, Charlotte, and Asuka. Well, don't get me wrong. I love Becky Lynch and Asuka
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It just seems like that's the same match every time with a mix-in of Bianca Belair
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Right. We need to build more women up. No, I mean, we've seen what Jade Cargill can do
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We know what Naomi can do, But now we also have to worry about, we have to see about what Tiffany can do on the main brand
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We have to see what Tegan Nock can actually be put through. I personally would like to see Piper Niven back as a solo artist as opposed to just teaming around with Chelsea
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There is a lot of opportunity now, and they just really have to start utilizing it
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And hopefully Triple H has that mindset because a lot of these people, regardless of the NXT call-ups that we just got
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a lot of the people on the brand now are his NXT people
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they are his children yeah absolutely this is their chance and right now they are riding
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high they are riding a high at the moment 100% because they had probably
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the best Wrestlemania in years and they've been making good decisions both on
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camera in terms of matchups, in terms of storylines, and behind the scenes
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So they're on a high right now. Right. So this is an opportunity to make it even better, especially with AEW tripping over
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themselves and TNA still being TNA. They, it's like, yeah, we already know WWE is the top of the heap
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they have been for ages. They are the hard bit of one
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AEW missed their chance to really do much, but this is an opportunity to basically just solidify
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everything for years to come. Right. Right now is the planning stages
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This is the rebuilding year, as they say in some sports. They have goodwill
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Yeah. They have a wave of goodwill right now. I want to say this also. I really like
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the roster they have on both Raw and SmackDown. It's just a matter of executing them perfectly
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They need to execute it, and they need to not trip over themselves
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Right. Like what we saw with Vince and his cronies over the past few years
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as we've said it before on this show, they put WWE at probably one of their lowest points
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in terms of quality in a very long time. Before the pandemic
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Yeah before the pandemic And they pretty much after that TKO merger they kind of wiped out a lot of the
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negative thoughts that we've had so having so this is they just capped off
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they just put the icing on the cake with an almost perfect Wrestlemania right
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so it's like okay let's see if they can keep it going
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let's see if they can keep this keep this wave rolling and I have to say
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Endeavor really did do some good work by finally taking over WWE
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amazingly enough yeah I know there were people that were worried about how it was going to be
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especially when the merger happened and they said Vince was back in power but yeah
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you're not going to say no names I was more worried when Vince shoehorned
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his way back in I understand the whole thing I'm glad that they did
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the whole TKO thing at least that jackass now has someone to answer to
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what is the answer and answer he did when the latest wave of things came out
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of the crap that he pulled and they finally were able to
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flush him out and that is that was the best thing that they could have done
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and when they did that the quality of everything shot up like I said
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it's like yeah and it's like well no the only doubts I had was
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how long Vince would continue his booking bullcrap with his cronies. And
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the moment and then you also have Kevin Dunn not there anymore
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So the production values have increased. Oh, yes. I like what they've done with
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the camera work. Camera work has just improved dramatically. The stuff they're doing was going dramatically
12:33
The way they did Becky Lynch and that whole that was fire
12:39
Yep. They stopped with the augmented reality nonsense. Well, they still occasionally have it, but they are toning it down
12:47
Thank goodness. They are... It's like... Well, I do... Unfortunately, it seems
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that they're going with the more minimalistic staging now, which kind of sucks
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I think that at least at WrestleMania, they should have had the more
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fireworks, the more splendor. Let it have the giant Jumbotron going. For shows like that
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have that. I understand you having the minimalistic set for, say, the weekly
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shows. Fine. Save some money. But that's one of the decisions I'm kind of iffy on
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But overall, the moment Vince was gone is when I had hope again
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And so far, I have not been disappointed. At least not I'm sure there are some results that I was kind of like on
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but overall, yeah. Yeah
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