Superstar Shake up Rumors

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Thu-6-Apr-2017 10:13:33 · 1,175 comments
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From this weeks wrestling observer newsletter.

Regarding the “Superstar shake-up,” when we first heard about it, the talk was that the key moves would be Roman Reigns to Smackdown and A.J. Styles to Raw. This was months ago. This past week we were told that Reigns isn’t going anywhere and the key moves were said to be Styles to Raw and The New Day to Smackdown. The latter makes sense since the tag team division in Smackdown has been weak from day one. However, with Cena leaving for a while, moving Styles also, which is taking the two most over guys on that side off the table, makes no sense. Smackdown gave you the impression that Styles will be moving over. He wasn’t booked for any program going forward and settled his issue with Shane McMahon. But that would mean one major Raw star would have to be moved over, although with Nakamura, they did get the biggest call-up. Based on the booking at Mania and on TV, I could easily see Charlotte and Bliss being flip-flopped. There are a ton of other possibilities but the key is Smackdown needs help in the tag division and Raw has several teams that could help.

I had a feeling Styles would be moving to Raw... he really shouldn't though.

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Thu-6-Apr-2017 10:49:59 · 555 comments
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This is completely selfish, but I'm kind of hoping they don't swap Bliss and Charlotte. I'm going to Money in the Bank and I was really hoping to see Bliss there.  But oh well, these things are bound to happen.  LOL.

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Thu-6-Apr-2017 12:10:34 · 5,103 comments
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I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say the following changes will happen:

To RAW:
Alexa Bliss
Luke Harper
Dolph Ziggler
Apollo Crews

To SmackDown!:
Charlotte
Seth Rollins
Rusev
The New Day
Sami Zayn

Dunno why I've picked these but that's what I'm predicting.

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Thu-6-Apr-2017 12:36:57 · 977 comments
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I'd be happy with what Rhys has picked. Would shake things up enough. Although that would mean that Harper can't reunite with the Wyatt family to beat Orton, so maybe send someone else over to Raw instead of him.

I hope that AJ stays.

Also the rumours on Reigns seem pretty stupid. Apparently they want to move him to Smackdown to keep him away from Lesnar, because they can't just book him in another programme against other people for most of the year. Then have him win the Rumble again and once again face Lesnar. Which would be stupid for two reasons. 1, they shouldn't repeat something from 2 years ago as that is just lazy and fans will shit all over it. 2, because they made no mention this year that the winner of the Rumble could pick what champion he faces. Orton won and it was straight set as he would face whoever the Smackdown champion was come Mania. So changing that just to suit a story because they can't be bothered to book things properly would be complete and utter bullshit and blurs the lines between the brand split which is what screwed the whole thing over last time.

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Thu-6-Apr-2017 14:22:41 · 3,230 comments
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Charlotte to Smackdown would make her the top womens wrestler on the bran, no question. Both sides really need new blood instead of just swapping someone over.

Same with The New Day really. The Raw tag division is a lot better than Smackdowns. So it's a move in the right direction, but really new blood is needed. Whether that's call ups or new teams brought in externally... something needs to happen.

Both would be good swaps tho.

AJ needs to stay on Smackdown, but there's far too much talk about it happening. So much so that I would be surprised to not see him moved. That would mean though that someone in the main event from Raw goes the other way. Probably will be Rollins since Triple H doesn't seem to appear on Smackdown these days, so it keeps them apart.

Personally don't think they should do a draft on Raw or Smackdown. As Ninjak pointed out, it blurs the lines between the shows. Why not make it a Network Special and then on the next Raw and Smakcdown shows the new guys are just there? Would get people to tune into the Network which is what the want.

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Thu-6-Apr-2017 16:46:21 · 5,103 comments
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Ninjak_XO wrote

I'd be happy with what Rhys has picked. Would shake things up enough. Although that would mean that Harper can't reunite with the Wyatt family to beat Orton, so maybe send someone else over to Raw instead of him.

That was intentional lol. I don't want Harper to rejoin The Wyatts for like the fourth time. It's about time he branched off to do his own thing, for real this time.

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Mon-10-Apr-2017 16:07:46 · 3,230 comments
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Latest is that Charlotte and Sasha will go to Smackdown. That would be pointless... After their feud, which good as it was, really ran it's course to the point where they had to say no more singles matches between them for the belt... Is it really a good idea to move them both? Good opportunity to split them and not have to worry about going back to that feud when one or the other has a title.

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Mon-10-Apr-2017 16:39:26 · 1,488 comments
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Does anyone think Cena might move?

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Mon-10-Apr-2017 16:44:12 · 5,103 comments
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Doubt it. Cena won't be there so I don't see the point in them wasting a trade on him.

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