4 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Oct 9)

1. Dry Delivery

Stephanie McMahon WWE Draft 2020
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Surely there's a more exciting way to announce Draft picks than having Stephanie McMahon read them from cue cards? There's no mystery to each round when Steph already knows - the magic of the Draft is lost when she's showing Adam Pearce who's going where in backstage skits before revealing them to the world too.

Some of the picks were also awful.

Mandy Rose for Raw? She'd just jumped there recently. Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler being drafted full stop? They're Women's Tag-Team Champs, so can go anywhere. Four of the first five picks were also announcements that wrestlers were staying put. How thrilling, eh?

Also, why would the USA Network execs want The Miz and John Morrison on Raw after seeing them take a jobber-like hammering at the hands of future Lars Sullivan fodder Jeff Hardy and Matt Riddle? The lack of attention to detail this year is almost staggering.

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