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In my opinion, the draft extension has been a VERY good thing. Pre-Draft we had the Invasion Angle which failed miserably, which int he end left the former WCW and ECW stars, among the new talent just coming up from both the WCW's and WWF Development Territories with nowhere to go on the roster, basically, things were beginning to look the way WCW was with overflowing talent, nothing to do with them, which means more jobbers. WWE then did the smart thing, bought in a brand extension and separated equally both shows with STARS and UP AND COMERS who would potentially lead the show in the future, bringing in fresh and new talent with GOOD pushes instead of jobber after jobber being decimated by the current breed of superstars both past and present.

Nowadays, you see people like Edge and John Cena who have benefited from the draft especially, as well as people in the rival company such as Christian Cage and Tomko. Without the draft extension, Edge And Christian most likely wouldn't have been pushed in a singles run, neither would Tomko, who was exclusively a Heat jobber. Cena would have been a nobody, Eddie Guerrero wouldn't have been pushed to the main event, Rey Mysterio Jr, the list goes on. Literally a never-ending list of why the extension was, and still IS proving to be a great thing.

People complain about the draft separating the roster, they want to see the main eventer's of each show collide together, they want to see and EXPECT to see up and coming talent be pushed to the top, a new generation and a new breed of Wrestlers and Superstars of the 2000's. If the draft ended, do you really expect to see this happen? Without the extension, the company itself would have over 100 wrestlers, all competing together to be on a show. Feuds would be short and pointless extending across all three shows; Raw, Smackdown and ECW, and would be hard to follow. The fans are often also exclusive to a show, they like their main eventer's on their show. The Draft introduced a new age of wrestling within a company quickly growing stale and old, it introduced a new, organized and meaningful Roster with a shuffle around every few years, this in my opinion was pure genius at it's best.

In an un-extended brand, we would still be seeing 80's and 90's based wrestlers taking up the main event spots, with minimal to NO pushes whatsoever. The likes of Edge and Christian and the Hardy's would still be in the tag-team division endlessly with no future other than to hype up the

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