Grading Raw's divisions before and after the Superstar Shake Up

Mid-Card Division

Samoa Joe should provide some heelish violence now that he's on Raw again

Added - Rey Mysterio, Ricochet, Cesaro, Cedric Alexander, EC3, Eric Young and Samoa Joe

Lost - Finn Balor, Jinder Mahal, Aleister Black, Apollo Crews

Other Notes - Dolph Ziggler still on hiatus, Kurt Angle retiring, Mojo Rawley still having vignettes yelling at a mirror, Bobby Roode now Robert Roode

Grade Before - B

Grade After -B

While the mid-card division was mainly a series of matches between Seth Rollins, Dolph Ziggler, Bobby Lashley and Finn Balor for most of the last year and a half, the Shake Up basically didn't hurt the division all that much.

Samoa Joe essentially replaced the Intercontinental Champion Balor while Mysterio, Cesaro, Eric Young and Joe moved over from SmackDown. Losing Aleister Black will hurt, but Ricochet and EC3 were finally assigned to Raw. Cedric Alexander essentially returns to Raw after mainly appearing on 205 Live for most of the last year and a half.

Cesaro should be given a push and it might have started in a win over Cedric Alexander during last week's Raw. Throughout all of WWE history, a lot of future WWE Champions came up through the mid-card, including Edge, CM Punk and the Hardyz, and the same might be said for the likes of Joe and possibly Ricochet.

Ziggler is still MIA while Bobby Roode experienced a gimmick change, making him a more serious person and threat. The jury is still out with Mojo Rawley as he is experiencing a tweak with his backstage vignettes where he yells at himself.

Due to the depth throughout all of the WWE, the men's divisions were the divisions left in relatively the same shape before and after the shake up. Several stars will carry the mid-card and some might even be thrust into tag teams to help improve the tag team scene on Raw.