10 Things You Didn’t Know About The WWE Draft
1. The Class Of 2005
In at number one is the most obscure of the obscure, a record
that applies to the top four picks from the 2005 Draft.
The quartet included John Cena, Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle and Randy Orton, which means that for the first and only time ever, the top four picks in the WWE Draft were all participating under their real names.
The closest we came to a repeat of this was in 2011 when three of the top four used their real names, as John Cena, Randy Orton, Mark Henry, Rey Mysterio were drafted (guess the odd one out).
By way of comparison, this year’s field did indeed feature four guys competing under their real names. Cena, Orton and Brock Lesnar charted in the top ten, but to find the fourth name you’ll have to look an awfully long way down the list at number 46, to be precise, where Mark Henry makes up the numbers.
This news may not be all that significant, but either way it’s
a telling sign of how the WWE has changed over the years. In an
age where trademarked property is now everything, we may never again see another top four posse like
the class of 2005.