Considering a possible brand split and dividing the roster

WWE’s Ruthless Aggression Era is possibly best remembered for its optimum use of SmackDown and Raw to their fullest, and having them as two completely separate entities. Raw would have its own roster, and SmackDown would also have its own, and there would be separate championships for both brands as well.With exception to the Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Survivor Series, every pay-per-view would be brand-exclusive. For example, No Way Out would usually be a SmackDown show, and Backlash would be a Raw show.In recent years though, this has faded away completely, with wrestlers now being able to compete on both Raw and SmackDown, and storylines also carry on between shows. There is no exclusive content or anything as such, they are both just weekly shows that follow each other up.But, it’s always possible to theorise, isn’t it?So let’s assume a brand split was possible, again. This article looks at wrestlers within the WWE (excluding NXT) and places them on SmackDown or Raw, and also divids the current championships between them.So first off is the Raw roster.

#1 The possible Raw roster

Raw could be made to be equally female-heavy as it is male-heavy

What I am going to be basing my rosters on is mostly balance and trying to even out the number of wrestlers for each wrestling style. I won’t be naming entire rosters, of course, just the main wrestlers on either one.

For the Raw brand, I would have the lead title as the WWE Championship, however, it will not be the main title in the entire promotion, as will be explained later. The mid-card title would be the Intercontinental Championship, and the women’s title would be the Divas’ Championship. The thing I would keep unique about Raw is that I would have women wrestlers featuring prominently, and if it were up to me, half the show would be women’s wrestling.

There would be no women’s wrestling on SmackDown, but that would be replaced with something else which wouldn’t be on Raw, which will be looked into later.

Because of this, the female roster would have to pretty vast, and the best possible thing to do, of course, would be to have all women on Raw. There would be stories outside the championship scene, numerous feuds, and Raw pay-per-views would heavily rely on female matches.

The difficulty comes in when drafting the male roster.

Off the bat, I would draft Seth Rollins to Raw, mostly because (and I know this is biased) I would like to see him around the WWE Championship for a long time. It should be noted that there would be a relatively small number of males on Raw, because of the higher focus on females, and for a reason I will clarify later, they must all be singles competitors.

So, keeping it balanced, I would also have Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Dolph Ziggler, Neville, Cesaro, The Miz, Randy Orton, Wade Barrett, Kevin Owens and Sheamus as the main male roster members on Raw. That would seem fairly heavy on big names, but the SmackDown roster would have its own say.