2009 WWE Draft

The 2009 WWE Draft took place April 13, 2009 at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the sixth yearly draft and the seventh overall.

The WWE draft is run by World Wrestling Entertainment. It is a way to add to their rosters after separating into two separate rosters (Raw and SmackDown!) in 2002. This is known as the WWE Brand Extension.

ECW was added as WWE's third brand in 2006. Under the brand extension, superstars are brand exclusive. This means they belong to and perform on brand. A brand uses its brand's show to perform. For example, SmackDown Superstars perform on SmackDown.

The draft was shown on an episode of Raw.

Selections

Montel Vontavious Porter was the first overall pick in the 2009 WWE Draft.

Pick #	Brand (to)	Employee (Real name)	Role	Brand (from)
1	Raw	Montel Vontavious Porter (Hassan Assad)	Male wrestler	SmackDown
2	Raw	The Big Show (Paul Wight)	Male wrestler	SmackDown
3	SmackDown	Melina (Melina Perez)	Female wrestler	Raw
4	Raw	Matt Hardy	Male wrestler	SmackDown
5	Raw	Triple H (Paul Levesque)	Male wrestler	SmackDown
6	SmackDown	CM Punk (Phil Brooks)	Male wrestler	Raw
7	Raw	The Miz (Mike Mizanin)	Male wrestler	ECW
8	SmackDown	Kane (Glenn Jacobs)	Male wrestler	Raw
9	SmackDown	Chris Jericho (Christopher Irvine)	Male wrestler	Raw
10	ECW	Vladimir Kozlov (Oleg Prudius)	Male wrestler	SmackDown
11	Raw	Maryse (Maryse Ouellet)	Female wrestler	SmackDown
12	SmackDown	Rey Mysterio (Oscar Gutierrez)	Male wrestler	Raw