10 Most Shocking WWE Draft Moments
4. Your New Boss
The shock-filled 2004 draft had two clear objectives as the first significant shake-up of it's kind since Ric Flair and Vince McMahon selected their Raw and Smackdown rosters respectively in the original 2002 incarnation of the Brand Extension.
The show was designed to create instant new stars (with heavy attention on Bradshaw, Shelton Benjamin and Edge in brand new roles post-draft), and remind audiences that absolutely anything can happen in the show-splitting lottery.
The aforementioned draft of Triple H to Smackdown was a bombshell for sure, but the management infrastructure of one of the shows was due to change with Raw's final pick of the evening.
Flashing his pearly whites with a smug glow only he was capable of, Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff pulled opposite number Paul Heyman's name out of the golden tumbler.
The Smackdown General Manager was utterly incandescent, and was pushed beyond the brink when faced with the prospect of working underneath his former arch-rival.
Heyman quit there and then, leaving his show without a leader and the roster gleeful at his impending exit.
Stepping into a General Manager role for the first time, it would be the recently re-injured Kurt Angle that took his place, 13 years before an unlikely return to the Monday Night Raw hot-seat.