I prefer looking at the top ten for each company.
Soo...
The Rock (SD) - Making movies. Again. Has been around for five months of the draft. (0 for 1, even though he's been great while he's around, for SD.)
The Undertaker (Raw) - Jumped to Smackdown. Not wrestling right now to spend time with family, but has had a title reign and has been around most of the year. (1 for 1 for Raw.)
Kurt Angle - Practically the franchise player. Put new talent over, was entertaining, had a World Tile reign and is now out for a couple months but will be back much sooner than we all thought. (1 for 2 for SD)
nWo - Bombed. Hall lasted a couple months before getting fired, Nash has been injured most of the time, and X-Pac is gone as well. (1 for 2)
Chris Benoit - He came back early. On Raw. Despite the fact that he was drafted to Smackdown. Benoit put on some awesome matches and had a Tag Team Title run and Intercontinetal Title run. (2 for 3, only because he jumped back to SD, and that's where he had those awesome matches)
Kane - Injured for four months, never really got a chance to shine, and was involved in the worst angle of the year. I feel his pain, but THIS GUY was drafted #3? (1 for 3)
Hulk Hogan - Gone from August to February. He did put Angle and Brock over, and he technically jobbed to Christian and Lance Storm, even if he wasn't the one pinned in the match. Still, if he had been around the whole year, I'd say he was worth it. Instead... (2 for 4)
Rob Van Dam - Two IC Title Reigns and he was a well-recieved star all-around, even when HHH went over him and then made him look weak in the guest referee match. Definitely a good choice, epecially since he was IC Champ at the time. (2 for 4)
Billy & Chuck - Useful only because they were tag team champs, but even then, they practically dragged the division to hell. Billy's been gone since October and Chuck's in the FBI. (2 for 5)
Booker T - A consistant star, his stuff with Goldust was classic. He had a good year despite not winning any singles titles. (3 for 5)
Edge - Very solid star as well. A tag team title run plus his memorable feud with Eddie and his position in the Smackdown Six proves his worth, even if he did get injured. (3 for 6)
The Big Show - Oi. He DID have a WWE Championship win and a few months solidly in the upper midcard... on Smackdown. On Raw he was completely worthless and jobbed to Jeff Hardy. (3 for 6)
Rikishi - The draft goes to hell from here. RIKISHI? I'll admit that he's a solid midcarder when it comes to overness, but he has done nothing but squash up-and-coming heels. Weak. (3 for 7)
Bubba Ray Dudley - Though he had a nice brief run in the upper midcard, he was pretty mediocre the whole time and quickly faltered and reunited with D-Von. Not worth drafting in the big ten. (3 for 7)
D-Von Dudley - Great thinking, Vince. The Dudleys are no good as singles stars... SO LET'S DRAFT D-VON EVEN THOUGH RAW HAS BUBBA! What a coup. Admittedly, I liked the Reverend D-Von persona, but it went nowhere, and the most it did was introduce the word to Deacon Dave Batista. (3 for 8)
Brock Lesnar - I'm sorry, but how did Bubba, D-Von, and Rikishi all get drafted before Brock? Eh, who cares? Even on Raw he was dominating and brutal, and since it was a good decision that fell apart during the GM War, Raw finally gets another point. (4 for 8)
Mark Henry - Oh, LORD. Vince, you moron. Mark Henry's 'push' involved lifting things, jobbing to everyone, and then getting injured and vanishing. Great, isn't it? No. No it's not. (3 for 9)
William Regal - He was the Euro Champ at that point and had a very solid year on Raw, culminating in another Euro Title win and two Tag Team Championship reigns. Regal did good. (5 for 9)
Maven - Drafted because he was Hardcore champ. He then promptly lost it to Raven, got injured, and returned to Raw to do nothing special. (3 for 10)
Lita - Of all the stupid things, why would you draft a woman who isn't even the Woman's Champion? She promptly got injured and returned to do some of the worst color commentary this side of Mongo. (5 for 10)
So, 30% of Smackdown's picks didn't bomb and 50% of Raw's didn't.
Now, who was missing? Well, Chris Jericho, for one. HELLO? FORMER UNDISPUTED CHAMP JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AGO! And they pick LITA, RIKISHI, and MARK HENRY over him? Ugh. Tajiri was Cruiserweight Champ, Jazz was Women's Champ, and they weren't picked. Jeff Hardy and Christian weren't picked when they're twice as over as some of te people who were picked. And if you're going to do a tag team war, PLEASE, go with the Hardyz. Of course, nobody knew how awesome Matt would be in singles competition once he went heel, but...
Still, a weak draft in retrospect.
