Top 20 Draft Picks For WWE's Brand Split 2016

12. Raw - Balor Club

seth rollins extreme rules
NJPW.com

Once again, Shane McMahon will add multiple wrestlers to the Raw roster by using his fifth overall draft pick to select Balor Club - Finn Balor, Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson - as a unit. He'll acknowledge that, in all likelihood, the three New Japan alumni will cause havoc on the program, but that chaos will translate into some very interesting TV. To borrow a phrase from his sister, the results will be best for business.

Giving Raw Balor Club in addition to all the talent the show's already got may make it seem unfairly stacked, but putting the stable on Smackdown would be a waste - after all, The New Day is on Raw, and a feud between the two trios would make a great program for SummerSlam and beyond. There's also the potential for an eventual Shield reunion and a six-man tag team match between those two units.

As for the bad blood with AJ Styles, Balor Club will still get a chance to show their old friend what they're all about - Finn Balor versus AJ Styles will already have been booked for July 24's Battleground show, and despite the fact that the men are on two separate brands, the match will still take place.

In this post: 
seth rollins
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013