WWE: 5 Biggest Winners from McMahon’s Fresh Start
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The McMahon family is now taking an active role on the main roster, and they’ve promised a fresh start with new matches and new faces! This sets up promising opportunities for several superstars, but who are this fresh start’s biggest winners so far?
A lot of fans were skeptical of the sweeping changes announced at the start of WWE Raw. The quartet of authority figures delivered some great promises and strong words about a fresh start, but fans have been burned by those promises before. McMahons can talk all day long, but it won’t matter until the change is witnessed first hand on Raw and SmackDown Live.
We’re only days into this potential new chapter on the main roster, but there are already several superstars looking to use this fresh start as a launching pad into 2019. Five superstars have stood out from the pack and are on the right path into this fresh start, and number five on this list has already had her debut match on SmackDown Live.
5. Nikki Cross & New NXT Arrivals
In their huge announcement at the beginning of Monday Night Raw, the McMahon family promised us new matches and “fresh faces.” The easiest way for WWE to inject fresh faces into the main roster is to call people up from NXT, and that’s exactly what we’re getting. Six new superstars are set to arrive on the main roster, and they’ve all got the chance for greatness.
The new additions to Raw and SmackDown Live are Lacey Evans, Lars Sullivan, Heavy Machinery, EC3, and Nikki Cross. All six superstars surely have the potential for great futures, but few have the positioning and momentum of Nikki Cross. Of these six, the one biggest winner so far is Cross, who could be entering a volatile women’s division on either brand.
Of the six, Nikki is also the only one to have previously debuted on SmackDown Live. Back in the first week of November, then-SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch was looking for a fight and laid down a non-title open challenge. The jagged sounds of SAnitY’s entrance music filled the arena, and the trio of chaos stepped out only to introduce their twisted sister as Becky’s challenger.
It was a well-timed decision, as that episode of SmackDown Live took place in Manchester, England, not far from the homes of Ireland’s Becky Lynch and Scotland’s Nikki Cross. The crowd was firmly behind the match, and Cross had a great showing despite a loss to Lynch. She’s one of the most organically over superstars in NXT, and it’s time for Nikki Cross to bring her special brand of chaos to the main roster and make her mark.