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WWE Raw: 5 Winners And 5 Losers From The Superstar Shake-Up

By Trace Johnson

TORONTO, ON - AUGUST 30: Wrestling superstar AJ Styles attends the 2018 Fan Expo Canada at Metro Toronto Convention Centre on August 30, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Che Rosales/Getty Images)
TORONTO, ON - AUGUST 30: Wrestling superstar AJ Styles attends the 2018 Fan Expo Canada at Metro Toronto Convention Centre on August 30, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Che Rosales/Getty Images) /
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3. EC3

The WWE hasn’t handled EC3’s main roster debut well enough in the first place, so seeing him end up on Monday nights feels like obscurity waiting to happen.  It’s no secret that the WWE is extremely hit or miss when it comes to NXT call-ups, so seeing how EC3 has been booked so far doesn’t instill much faith in his addition to Raw.

He hadn’t even wrestled on Raw in weeks before last night, so this feels like a move that could ultimately derail his main roster career before it even begins.  Hopefully, this isn’t the case, but EC3 probably could have been better suited to end up on the blue brand.  The next few weeks will be telling as to the future of his career on Monday nights.

2. Eric Young

It wasn’t long ago that SAnitY was one of the most unique groups in the WWE and a group that felt like a big deal.  However, that all went away rather quickly and now the group’s leader Eric Young is headed to Monday nights without his fellow group members, raising the collective eyebrows of the WWE universe.

SAnitY hadn’t been on TV in any kind of real capacity on SmackDown in months, so this move feels like a disaster waiting to happen.  Young is good enough on his own, but he hasn’t been given a real chance at success and that will likely only intensify now that he’s on a brand in which underutilized superstars often times come to die creatively.

1. The Viking Experience

The reigning NXT Tag Team Champions are The War Raiders, but after last night, they were rebranded as The Viking Experience and the WWE universe has been melting down over the change.  For a duo that felt like a serious tag team in NXT has almost immediately been transformed into a weird mid-1990’s gimmick team that now operates on the red brand.

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This move and rebranding feels like a potentially big mistake, there’s no other way around it.  And given how the WWE has handled some main roster call-ups, this feels like a move that will ultimately hurt this team’s career.  Not only is it an NXT call-up, but it’s also an NXT tag team call-up to Raw, so that’s about as dicey as it can possibly be.

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