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WWE Smackdown Draft 2024 Review! What They Liked and What They HATED!!
Apr 12, 2025
Dayveonne, Ryan and Kyle break down the 2024 WWE Smackdown draft. What they liked, what they hated and more. Click to subscribe! Find our other channels here! #wwe #wwesmackdowndraft #wwedraft2024 #jabronisunited
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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
0:34
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
1:00
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
1:31
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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