10 Times WWE's Smackdown Brand Got Shafted

2. Unbalanced (2010)

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Perhaps it wasn't as bad as the 2007 draft, but the 2010 edition hammered home the divide between the perception of Raw and Smackdown pretty good. On the televised draft, each brand received four talents. Smackdown's group consisted of Kelly Kelly, The Big Show, Christian, and Kofi Kingston. Not a bad lot, especially the latter two, right?

Now look at Raw: John Morrison, R-Truth, Chris Jericho, and Edge. All four men would be slotted into the seven-on-seven SummerSlam main event as part of Team WWE against The Nexus, demonstrating their worth in the eyes of the power brokers.

Kingston was a gifted and promising midcarder at the time, and Christian was spinning his wheels beneath the main event tier, so it's pretty fair to say that Raw won this one in a landslide.

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