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The 2016 WWE draft logo.

The 2016 WWE draft was the tenth draft, and first since 2011, produced by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE. It took place on July 19 during the live premiere of SmackDown on the USA Network in the United States broadcasting from the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Rules[]

  • Raw received the first overall draft pick.
  • For every two draft picks for SmackDown, Raw received three picks.
  • Tag teams counted as one pick (unless a commissioner/general manager wanted only a single member from a tag team in their pick)
  • Each brand must select at least two NXT superstars

Selection[]

SmackDown Live[]

The following list sums up the results of the draft from SmackDown Live.

Round Pick # Brand Superstar
(Real name)
Notes
1 1 Raw Seth Rollins
(Colby Lopez)
1 2 SmackDown Dean Ambrose
(Jonathan Good)
WWE Champion
1 3 Raw Ana Sanchez
(Charlotte Orton)
WWE Women's Champion
1 4 SmackDown AJ Styles
(Allen Jones)
WWE Intercontinental Champion
1 5 Raw James Harrison
2 6 Raw Roman Reigns
(Leati Anoa'i)
2 7 SmackDown John Cena
2 8 Raw Brock Lesnar
2 9 SmackDown Randy Orton
2 10 Raw Karl AndersonandLuke Gallows
(Chad Allegra and Andrew Hankinson)
WWE Tag Team Champions
3 11 Raw Sami Zayn
(Rami Sebei)
3 12 SmackDown Bray Wyatt
(Windham Rotunda)
3 13 Raw Sasha Banks
(Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado)
3 14 SmackDown Taya Valkyrie
(Kira Forster)
WWE Divas Champion
3 15 Raw Alberto Del Rio
(José Rodríguez)
4 16 Raw Matthew Harrison World Heavyweight Champion
4 17 SmackDown Cesaro
(Claudio Castagnoli)
Million Dollar Champion
4 18 Raw Kevin Owens
(Kevin Steen)
WWE Hardcore Champion
4 19 SmackDown Dolph Ziggler
(Nick Nemeth)
4 20 Raw Tyler Breeze
(Mattias Clement)
WWE United States Champion
5 21 Raw Finn Bálor
(Fergal Devitt)
5 22 SmackDown Shinsuke Nakamura WWE European Champion
5 23 Raw Hideo Itami
(Kenta Kobayashi)
5 24 SmackDown Hiroshi Tanahashi
5 25 Raw Nia Jax
(Savelina Fanene)
Drafted from NXT
6 26 Raw Fénix Drafted from NXT
6 27 SmackDown Kazuchika Okada
6 28 Raw Bayley
(Pamela Martinez)
6 29 SmackDown Maryse
(Maryse Mizanin)
6 30 Raw Eve Torres
(Eve Harrison)

WWE Network[]

The following list sums up the results of the draft from the WWE Network.

Round Pick # Brand Superstar
(Real name)
Notes
7 31 Raw Mark Henry
7 32 SmackDown Candice LeRae
(Candice Dawson)
7 33 Raw Neville
(Benjamin Satterley)
7 34 SmackDown Naomi
(Trinity Fatu)
7 35 Raw Paige
(Saraya-Jade Bevis)
8 36 Raw Sister Abigail
(Shelly Martinez)
8 37 SmackDown Taryn Terrell WWE Women's Tag Team Champion
8 38 Raw The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso)
(Joshua Fatu and Jonathan Fatu)
8 39 SmackDown Melissa
(Melissa Anderson)
WWE Women's Tag Team Champion
8 40 Raw Becky Lynch
(Rebecca Quin)
WWE Women's Hardcore Champion
9 41 Raw Natalya
(Natalie Neidhart)
9 42 SmackDown Goldust
(Dustin Runnels)
9 43 Raw Erick Rowan
(Joseph Ruud)
9 44 SmackDown Luke Harper
(Jon Huber)
9 45 Raw Braun Strowman
(Adam Scherr)
10 46 Raw The Vaudevillains (Aiden English and Simon Gotch)
(Matthew Rehwoldt and John Smith)
10 47 SmackDown Apollo Crews
(Sesugh Uhaa)
10 48 Raw Kane
(Glenn Jacobs)
10 49 SmackDown Big Show
(Paul Wight)
10 50 Raw The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley)
(Mark LoMonaco and Devon Hughes)
11 51 Raw The Miz
(Mike Mizanin)
11 52 SmackDown Rusev (with Lana)
(Miroslav Barnyashev and Catherine Perry)
11 53 Raw Alexa Bliss
(Alexis Kaufman)
11 54 SmackDown Alicia Fox
(Victoria Crawford)
11 55 Raw Dana Brooke
(Ashley Sebera)
12 56 Raw Carmella
(Leah Van Dale)
12 57 SmackDown Enzo Amore

and Colin Cassady
(Eric Arndt and William Morrissey)

12 58 Raw Charlotte
(Ashley Fliehr)
12 59 SmackDown Sheamus
(Stephen Farrelly)
12 60 Raw The New Day (Big EKofi Kingston and Xavier Woods)
(Ettore Ewen, Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah, Austin Watson)
13 61 Raw Sin Cara
(Jorge Arias)
13 62 SmackDown The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor)
(Ryan Parmeter and Eric Thompson)
13 63 Raw Kalisto
(Emanuel Rodriguez)
13 64 SmackDown Blake and Murphy
(Cory Weston and Matthew Adams)
13 65 Raw Kenny Omega
(Tyson Smith)
14 66 Raw American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan)
(Charles Betts and Nathan Everheart)
Drafted from NXT
14 67 SmackDown Kimber Lee
(Kimberly Frankele)
Drafted from NXT
14 68 Raw Scarlett Bordeaux
(Elizabeth Chihaia)
Drafted from NXT
14 69 SmackDown Cherry Bomb
(Laura Dennis)
Drafted from NXT
14 70 Raw Taeler Hendrix
(Taeler Conrad-Mellen)
Drafted from NXT

Notes:

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