7 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (11 Oct)
1. The Best Of What's Left?
Those War Room executives sure looked thrilled to score Randy Orton et al during the various cutaways to the two sides, but the suited and bespectacled actors were obviously paid well for those pops as the Draft ROLLED ON.
Round 4's groupings, for example, were so bereft of excitement that barely Michael Cole and Corey Graves could put it over.
Nikki Cross was an illogical waste of a pick, considering how she could have been selected alongside Alexa Bliss. The Street Profits got minimal response upon Stephanie McMahon's announcement, damning their Statler & Waldorf run on the red brand to this point. Lucha House Party, with respect to all three men behind the mask, are booked to f*cking suck, yet got the jump on Otis and his big belly.
And for that matter, if you think Heavy Machinery were kept amongst the upper echelon for any other reason than that, you've simply not been watching the product closely enough.