The 2004 Draft Lottery involved wrestlers being switched from "Raw" to
WWE Smackdown! (1999) or vice versa, with names being drawn from a bingo roller by either "Raw" General Manager
Eric Bischoff or "SmackDown!" General Manager
Paul Heyman. "SmackDown!" drafted
Rene Dupree, Mark Jindrak (
Marco Corleone), Triple H (
Paul Levesque),
Rob Van Dam, manager
Teddy Long, and Spike Dudley (
Matt Hyson). "Raw" drafted
Shelton Benjamin, Nidia (
Nidia Guenard), Rhyno (
Terry Gerin) (whoever was picked received a match with World Heavyweight Champion
Chris Benoit that night), Tajiri (
Yoshihiro Tajiri), Edge (
Adam Copeland), and Paul Heyman. After Heyman's name was drawn, he immediately quit as General Manager. That Thursday on "SmackDown!",
Kurt Angle would be revealed as the new General Manager.