10 Ideas To Salvage WWE Survivor Series

6. Move The Draft

Becky Lynch Survivor Series
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One of the most difficult reasons to take the elimination matches seriously is that several wrestlers involved in the matches just switched brands in the previous month’s draft.

This year, more than half the wrestlers were on the rival brand in October. Four(!) members of the men’s Team Raw were on SmackDown last month, and the fifth was in NXT three months ago. Hardly a team of Raw stalwarts.

So, why not move the WWE draft? Hold it in early September so the wrestlers have a couple months to acclimate to their new brand. Let the dust settle a bit on the shifting landscape. Or even bump the draft to after Survivor Series. It’s not like December is a hot month for angles, so holding the draft then could actually drive some attention during the last month of the year.

The current situation with the draft being held a month before brand warfare breaks out just doesn’t work.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.