What if the Undisputed Era took over WWE?

The Undisputed Era has been one of the hottest acts in NXT for over a year now. They debuted at the 2017 TakeOver Brooklyn special over SummerSlam weekend and immediately established themselves as major players by attacking the Tag Team and NXT Champions.

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Since that time, they’ve twice been featured in War Games, and largely dominated the tag title scene, besides Adam Cole being crowned the original NXT North American Champion.

The question remains, however, when, whether, and how the Undisputed Era might translate to the main roster.

We’ve already seen glimmers of what might be to come in Cole making a surprise appearance in the 2018 men’s Royal Rumble, besides which Roderick Strong took part in the tournament for the vacant Cruiserweight Championship before joining the faction.

This article take a look at what it would mean for the whole group to not only move up but thrive on the main roster.

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#5 SmackDown domination

The Undisputed Era is full of sensational talents, but they’re all smaller guys by WWE standards

While it is not a universal rule, it remains the default that WWE treats Raw as the more mainstream of its two brands invested in featuring the biggest bodies and most famous stars, whereas SmackDown is generally regarded as more suited toward hardcore fans interested in work rate and technical expertise.

One need look no further than the brand’s respective top champions, Brock Lesnar and Daniel Bryan, to see that dynamic at work.

The Undisputed Era is full of sensational talents, but they’re all smaller guys by WWE standards who work technical styles that are influenced by having traveled the world before coming to WWE.

It’s the kind of act that would feel much more at home on the blue brand, and a particularly if the faction were to dominate, it would be most logical for them to do so on the brand WWE treats as a little lower profile.

Moreover, on SmackDown they could work opponents like AJ Styles and Samoa Joe who could complement them in the ring.

#4 Adam Cole as WWE Champion

Adam Cole could win the big one on SmackDown.

While The Undisputed Era has been treated as a faction that’s consistently on the same page without any meaningful teases of dissension, they are also a group with a clear leader.

Adam Cole has been the primary mouthpiece for the stable, and the only member of the group to date to capture singles gold, as the first NXT North American Champion.

If the Undisputed Era were truly to take over its main roster brand, winning a world title would have to be part of the equation.

Out of the group, Cole is the guy who has been situated as a singles title contender, besides which his game on the microphone would make him viable to carry on as the leader and face of the stable.

To be fair, it would be a leap for Cole to go from never capturing the top title in developmental to capturing the top title on the main roster brand.

However, if WWE wants to get this group over to the maximum level, it would be a necessary step, besides which WWE has shown a willingness to experiment with the WWE Championship over the last couple years, including reigns for Bray Wyatt and Jinder Mahal.

#3 The Freebird Rule in effect

In a variety of combinations, The Undisputed Era could reign over the SmackDown tag division

While Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly, and Bobby Fish are all more than competent wrestlers who could do just fine with singles runs and be competitive for the Intercontinental or United States Championship, in the world of WWE they’ve been established as tag team wrestlers.

Moreover, with the more wide open tag ranks, it’s more believable that any combination of these guys could immediately be slotted as championship contenders upon their call-up.

So which pair would win the tag titles? The answer may well be that the three of them (or conceivably all four members of the Undisputed Era) would share the gold, putting the Freebird Rule into effect so that they could rotate members, in a similar fashion to what New Day has done during their title reigns.

It’s a fun dynamic to be able to switch up members, besides which it helps protect the team because, if one member does get injured, the unit can still seamlessly continue to the title reign.

#2 Expansion

The Undisputed Era could grow upon its call-up

It’s certainly possible that, not unlike The Shield, WWE would let the core members of The Undisputed Era stay together and function on their own as a successful faction.

However, they’re a group that already grew from three to four members while they were in NXT, and they certainly could continue their expansion to give other talents the rub, besides shoring up their ranks against anyone getting injured and disrupting the crew’s momentum.

Alternatively, they could absorb a veteran talent or two to give the group more immediate credibility with main roster fans who don’t follow NXT.

Expansion of a successful group is always a tricky proposition. In extreme cases like the New World Order, it badly watered down the core members who were over.

Additionally, there’s the risk of losing storyline focus. WWE seems to know what it has in this group, though, and if they were to expand, we can guess that it would happen with care.

#1 Female member(s)

Adding female members to The Undisputed Era could open some interesting possibilities.

One way for The Undisputed Era to expand and distinguish itself upon moving up to the main roster would be to feature not only its core male members but also one or more female additions to the faction.

The group is grounded in its combination of technical expertise and its swagger. A veteran like Mickie James or Natalya could fit the bill.

Alternatively, if WWE wanted to keep the group stocked with fresher talent, they might consider temporarily moving Sara Del Rey out of her trainer role in developmental to finally work in a WWE ring, or call up a young heel like Lacey Evans.

As another angle, Roderick Strong is in real life married to Marina Shafir. As such, she’d be a natural enough choice to conscript into the group, conceivably bringing Horsewomen colleagues Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke along with her to really blow up the group and see them dominate both the male and female ranks.