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All You Need to Know about WWE Draft 1st Stage


Sat 02 Oct 2021 | 04:21 PM
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WWE announced the first stage of the annual WWE Draft at the latest episode of Friday Night SmackDown. WWE Draft is a process taken for redistributing the corporation's performs among its main roasters: Friday Night SmackDown, and Monday Night Raw.

Half of the WWE stars were selected during the first stage; it was pided into four main rounds.

https://youtu.be/gltnV_cHpzE

The selections of the first round came as the following:

WWE Universe Champion, the Head of the Table, Roman Reigns will not be drafted to the red-coloured roaster, and he will stay at SmackDown. The same goes with the recently crowned WWE Champion Big E as he will stay at his main roaster Raw.

However, Raw Women's Champion Charlotte Flair, the Queen, was drafted to the blue-coloured SmackDown from Raw while Bianca Blair was drafted from the SmackDown to Raw.

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The Selections of the Second Round Came as:

SmackDown picked the Scottish Warrior Drew McIntyre from Raw, on the other hand, Raw will keep its Tag Team Champions RK- Bro that consisted of the Viper Randy Orton and Riddle.

While The New Day members: Kofi Kingston, and  Xavier Woods will move to SmackDown from Raw without Big E which could be a split for the trio-membered team. Next, Raw picked the Rated R Super Star Edge from SmackDown.

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The Selections of the Third Round Came as the Following:

SmackDown decided to keep Happy Corbin & Madcap Moss, while Raw will keep the Women's Tag Team Champions Nikki A.S.H. & Rhea Ripley.

On the other hand, Hit Row will be moved from NXT to SmackDown, unlike Raw which selected Keith "Bearcat" Lee.

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The Selections of the Fourth & Final Round Came as the Following:

Naomi will stay at SmackDown regardless of her latest issues with the blue-coloured roaster's official Sonya Deville. On the other hand, The Mysterios: Rey and Dominik will move from SmackDown to Raw.

Next, SmackDown picked one of the highly anticipated selections which is moving the Charismatic Enigma Jeff Hardy from Raw to the blue-coloured roaster. The final selection for the WWE Draft first stage was Raw's pick for Austin Theory.

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After the conclusion of the first stage, the Beast Brock Lesnar announced that he is a free agent, so he can choose any roaster he wants.

The rest of the picks will be announced at the upcoming episode of Monday Night Raw.