WWE Draft 2011: This Is the Last Thing SmackDown Needs

Look at the SmackDown roster. What do you see? Potential? That’s what I see. SmackDown actually has one of the best rosters at the moment in my opinion. This is what has made SmackDown the better show every week—because the talent knows what they are doing.

So instead of switching up an excellent roster, what the WWE should do instead is develop storylines with the talent they already have.

Cody Rhodes and Rey Mysterio are okay at the moment. They are in a storyline—as long as it doesn’t end with a mask-versus-mask match, it should be a fairly successful conclusion, whether it is at Extreme Rules, or past this event.

Cody Rhodes is, in my opinion, the best character to emerge from the creative writing team in a long time. His air time on SmackDown is allowing him to develop his persona in a big way and if the show receives ready-made stars, the spotlight will quickly shift off Cody, which would be a great shame.

People have been moaning about how WWE needs to get more “Main Event talent” on SmackDown now that Edge and the Undertaker are gone. Can I ask why? Christian and Alberto Del Rio are more than capable of carrying the torch, and when that storyline ends, that will be when they have a chance to develop mid-card talent into main event superstars.

Take Kofi Kingston for example.  He’s flirted with the main event in the past and with some success. I’ll never forget the first Raw I’d watched in about seven years, when Kofi owned Randy Orton at Madison Square Garden—I thought it was brilliant.

This is what SmackDown would have a chance to do if there wasn’t a draft. Build this talent to start main eventing. Drew McIntyre seems to have been laying in wait for a long time to get a chance at the World Heavyweight Championship, and he’ll have an even longer wait if there is an influx of current main event stars.

The draft will maintain the stale programming that the WWE is becoming known for. It’s the same feuds with the same people and people are getting bored of it. I’m fairly sure that absolutely no-one in the IWC wants Cena to win the title again. If you bring CM Punk to SmackDown you just know he’s going to be in the title picture—he’s been there before. Why not switch it up and have McIntyre face Christian?

Wade Barrett is definitely a candidate for the World Heavyweight Championship. He definitely looks like a main event star and can certainly perform in the ring. He had a chance to show what he could do in his storyline with Cena and he really impressed me. I believed he would win the WWE Championship!

Let us not forget about Kane and the Big Show. Currently in a tag team, they are perfectly in line for a feud with Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel and the Tag team Championship. While this feud is going on, this gives them a chance to build other tag teams to face these teams, slowly building the tag team division. Whereas, what will probably happen in the draft is that The Corre will be split up as will Big Show and Kane, putting the proverbial nail in the coffin, regarding tag teams in the WWE.

Speaking of The Corre, what about Ezekiel Jackson? This guy could easily be built for the main event. He has body shape in his favour as we all know Vince McMahon prefers his champions to look a certain way. Fair enough he doesn’t have very good mic skills but why not let his body do the talking? If they don’t put him in the main event they definitely need to have him feud with Barrett for the Intercontinental title.

The main point of this article is the fact that I believe the draft will be detrimental to SmackDown. I believe that the people in the IWC are becoming disillusioned with SmackDown having no (what they consider to be) main event stars. They do have main event stars, they’ve just never been given the chance to show it—or if they have, they’ve been de-pushed faster than I don’t know what.

I believe SmackDown should just let Raw wallow in its abundance of main event stars, while they develop talent for the future because that what it seems SmackDown is for. It has the best wrestling talent that have not yet made it to the big time—but have the potential to.

What do you think?

Do you believe the draft could be beneficial to SmackDown or do you agree with my arguments? Please let me know in the comments section below. I do my best to reply to all comments.

Please take a moment to read my other article regarding the draft and whether we really need it.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/675738-wwe-draft-2011-do-we-really-need-it

Thanks for reading!