Draft Idea

At my current place of employment, I have been subjected to working the over night shift as of late.

The sleep pattern sucks and it has ruined what little I have of a social life, but it allows me freedom of management, customers, a uniform and the best part of all, I get to listen to music and podcasts.

It's no secret (I say that a lot on here) that wrestling podcasts are my favorite and just last night I through on the first three episodes of the recently revamped Voice of Wrestling, hosted by Chris Cash and Nick Paglino of wrestlezone dot com.

They were talking about the WWE draft in one of the episodes and I got thinking of an idea, which was actually later presented by Nick.

It made me happy to know I wasn't the only one thinking this, and I doubt me and him are the only two who thought of this.

Any other professional sports draft consists of guys from the minor leagues being drafted to the major league, so why wouldn't WWE do the same sort of thing for at least two guys and girls from FCW?

I say take a handful of the top prospects there and make them eligible for the draft. Weeks leading up to the draft they could keep showing hype videos to give people an idea of what they're all about and let them build some sort of attachment. Maybe have a match between two of them for a spot on RAW or Smackdown, or the winner gets to pull a brand out of a hat and the loser goes to the other brand.

It's a fresh face that has some momentum built up behind them and actually feels like a real draft.

Imagine hype videos being show for Seth Rollins and Richie Steamboat being shown for about four weeks, showing us who they are and what they're about. Then we get a match on draft night. We see what they bring to the table and feel like we know both of them now rather than it just being two guys who we read about on the wrestling news sites.

Just an idea that popped in my head, and I don't doubt many others heads too.

Do you have any draft ideas? Does mine sound completely ricockulous? Or do you think something like that could work?

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