By Jason Powell, Prowrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
The following wrestlers were moved from WWE Raw to WWE Smackdown during the WWE Superstar Shakeup.
-The Miz
-U.S. Champion Jeff Hardy
-Sonya Deville
-Mandy Rose
-Samoa Joe
-Eric Young (from NXT)
-Killian Dain (from NXT)
-Alexander Wolfe (from NXT)
-Big Cass
-Asuka
-Luke Gallows
-Karl Anderson
-Sheamus
-Cesaro
-R-Truth
-Andrade Almas (from NXT)
-Zelina Vega (from NXT)
The following wrestlers were moved from WWE Smackdown to WWE Raw during the WWE Superstar Shakeup.
-Jinder Mahal (w/The Singh Brothers)
-Ruby Riott
-Liv Morgan
-Sarah Logan
-Kevin Owens
-Sami Zayn
-Tyler Breeze
-Fandango
-Natalya
-Dolph Ziggler
-Drew McIntyre (from NXT)
-Baron Corbin
-Zack Ryder
-Bobby Roode
-Konnor
-Viktor
-Mojo Rawley
-Mike Kanellis
-Chad Gable
Powell’s POV: I will continue to update the tracker as the Superstar Shakeup moves are announced. Refresh the page for the latest updates. You can also find my live review of Smackdown on the main page.
So the New Day and Usos are staying on Smackdown? And with Gable on Raw without Benjamin, are we gonna get an American Alpha reunion when Jordan is back?
It’s hard to argue with most of the moves they’ve up until this posting, with one notable exception: Drew McIntyre’s placement. The guy’s a fantastic babyface, so I’m not quite sure why you bring him up as a heel. And if you are going to bring him up as a heel, why not put him on Smackdown so he can main event? The real head scratch-er though in all of this is why pair him with Ziggler? If you wanted to put a big guy with Ziggler, why not use Cass? That whole thing just feels off.
Otherwise, this should be a fresh start for most of Smackdown’s beaten down heels though, and adds a few babyface teams for the AoP to destroy- so seems logical.
Www put themself in a bind by putting the IC BELT on Seth Rollins while moving the us title to raw. Now he’s going to have to lose it to a smackdown wrestler at backlash I assume mix but who knows if Daniel Bryan is facing him. If Rollins gets moved to smackdown it’ll make his new Monday night Rollins t-shirt ridiculous on if that was the plan the shirt should of been made or the belt should of been put on the leader of bullet club Finn valor
You mean -should have. 🙂
Or they just draft Jeff Hardy to Smackdown and the problem is solved. Seems pretty obvious.
Boom. Done.
How does Finn Balor not get sent to Smackdown? It’s such an obvious fit, especially with Gallows and Anderson headed there! Sanity vs. the Club could’ve been fun, too.
Smackdown got the better half of the shake-up though, I think. They’re loaded with strong heels over there now. If the creative department can just avoid damaging those guys the way they did their last batch of heels, this show should roll. I’m a little concerned the heels on the womens side are just going to get fed to Charlotte and Asuka, though. The super-Charlotte bit is tired.
RAW has a lot of depth now, but they need to nail the Owens and Zayn rebuilds. If Lesnar isn’t around, it’s going to be hard to see any heel going over on Roman, if not one of those two.