Hey guys! Welcome back to another blog post!
This week, I'm going to tell you about this year's superstar shakeup.
If you don't know what the Superstar shakeup is, it's something WWE does about a week after Wrestlemania each year, where some superstars transfer from Smackdown to RAW, RAW to Smackdown, NXT to RAW, NXT to SmackDown, 205 live to Smackdown, and 205 live to RAW.
So, I'm not even going to say anything else. I'm just going to start with who showed up on RAW.
These are not in order btw!
1. The Miz
During the opening segment of RAW, Stephanie McMahon and Shane McMahon were in the ring to announce the first member transferring from SmackDown to RAW. Before they made the announcement, Shane bragged about his victory over the Miz at Wrestlemania. As they were about to make the announcement, The Miz came out and attacked Shane from behind making Miz the first member to transfer from Smackdown to RAW.
2. Ricochet and Aleister Black
Ricochet and Aleister Black have been on the main roster for a few months now and nobody knew whether they were going to be on RAW or Smackdown considering they were on both shows every week.
This past Monday on RAW, however, Ricochet and Aleister showed up for a tag team match and confirmed that they were now on RAW.
3. The Viking experience
Ricochet and Aleister teamed with the RAW tag team champions Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder to face The revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) and the NXT tag team champions the viking experience (Ivar and Erik).
4. Andrade and Zelina Vega
During the second match of the night, Andrade (with Zelina Vega at ringside) won his RAW debut by defeating the Intercontinental champion, Finn Balor in a non-title match.
5. Rey Mysterio
About half way through the show, Rey Mysterio came out. I can't remember if he had a match or not but long story short, Lars Sullivan came out and attacked Mysterio.
6. Aj Styles
The main event was Bobby Lashley, Drew McIntyre and Baron Corbin vs Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, and a mystery partner.
There were a lot of guesses about who this mystery partner could be and as you can probably guess, Aj Styles was the mystery partner.
7. The Usos
The Usos showed up on RAW and defeated Chad Gable and Bobby Roode.
8. Naomi
A few hours before RAW started, Bayley was trying to get a hold of her tag team partner, Sasha Banks when The current women's tag team champions, the iiconics (Peyton Royce and Billie Kay) started tormenting Bayley and Bayley challenged them to a tag team match. The iiconics accepted so Bayley had to find another tag team partner and she chose Naomi.
9. EC3
Long story short, EC3 had an open challenge which basically means that the first person to come out has to face him. Braun Strowman accepted EC3's open challenge and Strowman won.
10. Lacey Evans
Becky Lynch went out to the ring to cut a promo and Natalya interrupted her and cut a promo herself. That's when Lacey Evans interrupted them confirming that she is officially on RAW and she's coming after the RAW women's championship that Becky currently holds.
That's when the match was made. Lacey Evans vs Natalya and the winner gets a raw women's championship opportunity. Lacey Evans won and now she's the number one contender for the RAW women's championship, so, I'm assuming that women's title match will happen at Money in the bank next month.
During the show, after one the commercial breaks, WWE showed a "clip" telling us that Cedric Alexander from 205 Live is coming to raw very soon.
After the show there was also some other superstars announced.
-Eric Young
-Samoa Joe
Now, I'm going to talk about who showed up on Smackdown.
1. Buddy Murphy
Just like Cedric Alexander, Buddy Murphy is also a superstar from 205 live that is coming to Smackdown very soon.
2. Lars Sullivan
Carmella always hangs around with R-truth and she had a match against Charlotte Flair with R-truth at ringside. After Carmella's match, Lars Sullivan came out and attacked R-truth.
3. Ember Moon
While Becky Lynch was cutting a promo, a returning Ember Moon came out and interrupted her.
4. Bayley
Leaving her partner, Sasha on RAW, Bayley came out after Ember Moon to challenge for the Smackdown women's championship.
5. Kairi Sane
Last week, Paige was watching the Royce/Kay's match.
After the match, Kayla Braxton asked her why she was there and Paige said she was going to bring an impressive new women's tag team this week to hopefully become the next women's champions.
This week, after Bayley and Ember Moon interrupted Becky, the iiconics came out followed by Paige.
As Paige was about to announce her tag team, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville came out and said, "Smackdown Live has been waiting for the reunion of Absolution."
If you didn't know what Absolution is, it was a tag team involving Paige, Mandy Rose, and Sonya Deville. The team broke up after Paige was injured and became GM of Smackdown.
Anyway, Paige then said, "And they're going to have to wait longer for that." Long story short, Paige wasn't announcing Mandy Rose or Sonya Deville.
Paige said she was the manager of the newest women's tag team, Asuke and the debuting Kairi Sane from NXT.
6. Elias
A few hour before Smackdown began, it was announced that Mr. McMahon will be revealing the newest Smackdown superstar as the greatest acquisition ever.
It was Elias....
7. Roman Reigns
When Elias was about to perform his song, Roman Reigns came out and attacked him.
Reigns then turned to Mr. McMahon who was also in the ring at the time and Reigns superman-punched Mr. McMahon.
There was also a few people announced after Smackdown Live:
-Liv Morgan
-Chad Gable
-Apollo Crews
-Mickie James
-Heavy Machinery (Otis and Tucker)
That's it for today's blog post.
Before I end this blog post, I just wanted to let you guys know that I will not be posting a youtube video on any of my channels this week because I'm just getting over the flu so, if the flu is gone next week, I will be posting a youtube video next week.
Come back either tomorrow or Monday for another blog post where I tell you guys what I got for Easter.
Until then,
~Brianna
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