WWE Superstar shake-up's biggest missed opportunities
On this week's episodes of Raw and SmackDown, WWE effectively had another draft, trading many Superstars between the two brands in an attempt to “shake things up again.” With just a few moves, WWE managed to do just that.
After nine months, the rosters have been revitalised and the promise of some new, fantastic feuds are sure to come to freshen things up. However, with everything good, there will undoubtedly be some bad.
Not all of the trades fixed all of the problems on the roster and some of them even created a few other issues that wouldn’t have come up had certain Superstars not shifted from one side to the other.
With that being said, here is a list of just a few of the biggest missed opportunities and blunders from what was overall a fantastic Superstar Shake-Up.
#1 Saving Sin Cara
In what seems like an even swap in many regards, Kalisto was traded to Raw while Sin Cara is now going to be wrestling on SmackDown Live. At first, that doesn’t appear to be a problem at all. Both men are masked, wrestle a similar style, and neither is significantly higher on the roster hierarchy than the other.
However, that’s exactly why this is a missed opportunity.
Kalisto had two United States Championship reigns that bombed rather miserably. Sin Cara has never held singles gold with two performers under the mask. Right now, both Raw and SmackDown could use another proven babyface tag team and given Sin Cara’s track record, that’s the best course of action for his career.
Keeping them both in singles competition isn’t going to do either one any favours. Sin Cara is likely going to be near the bottom of the midcard, jobbing to Jinder Mahal and Aiden English while Kalisto is used as fodder for The Miz and if he’s lucky, Braun Strowman.
At best, Kalisto is looking at a run in the Cruiserweight division where his presence will diminish the importance of Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado, but that still leaves Sin Cara with no real benefits to his spot on SmackDown.
Reteaming The Lucha Dragons could have set them up for a potential tag team title run in the future, or at the very least, an interesting feud down the line with Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson to revitalise their importance on the card.
Now, both men will be lucky not to get lost in the shuffle, and will likely not have many wins to their names for the rest of 2017.