5 Biggest Winners & Losers Of The WWE Draft So Far

2. Winner: Heath Slater

Heath Slater
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Considering he isn't even assigned to a brand and has been embarrassed pretty much every time he has been on-screen since the draft, Heath Slater is enjoying the best times of his career. Only in professional wrestling can being unsigned and embarrassed be a genuinely good thing.

Since the draft Slater has been gored by Rhyno (twice), pinned by Jinder Mahal, decimated by Brock Lesnar and picked up a DQ win against Randy Orton, albeit a DQ win that saw him come out of the match in pretty shoddy shape. It's been a rough month for Heath Slater, the character.

Wrestling is weird though, and it is incredible to realise that Heath Slater has been on more WWE segments in the last month than anyone else. The longer Slater's 'hottest free agent' goes the better it is for the man, as he is getting a story spotlight that he hasn't been close to in his career as of yet.

It shall end with Slater and Strowman colluding to get the Red Dragon a RAW contract, but I digress.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.