Superstar Shakeup 2018: Analysing The Good and The Bad of it

How did Smackdown Live fare in the final part of the Superstar Shake-up 2018?
Quite a shakeup for the two brands this past week!

Good: NXT Call-ups

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Almas and Vega are now SmackDown Live superstars
The former NXT Champion will be a great heel on the main roster

Former NXT Champion Andrade "Cien" Almas and SAnitY were revealed as the stars who would join the blue brand from the developmental brand NXT.

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On Raw, Drew McIntyre made a dominant debut alongside Dolph Ziggler, with the two seemingly forming an alliance.

All these acquisitions are good news for the main roster: Almas, with Zelina Vega taking care of the promo work, has proven how good a heel he can be.

This opens up possibilities of potential great feuds with pure babyfaces such as AJ Styles and Bryan.

SAnitY will get a chance to prove their whittle among some of the best tag teams such as The Usos, New Day and The Bar.

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In the case of McIntyre, WWE seems to have high hopes for the Superstar, seeing how they chose to have him show up on Raw instead of going back to NXT.

It remains to be seen how WWE intends to use him and Ziggler as a team going forward.

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