WWE roster breakdown (upper/mid/low card, face/heel) after the Superstar Shake-up

[Triple A]

Updated May 10, 2019


RAW

Upper Card Faces
- AJ Styles
- Braun Strowman
- Seth Rollins

Upper Card Heels
- Baron Corbin
- Bobby Lashley
- Drew McIntyre


Mid Card Faces
- The Miz
- Rey Mysterio
- Ricochet

Mid Card Heels
- Cesaro
- Robert Roode
- Sami Zayn
- Samoa Joe
- Shane McMahon (both brands)


Low Card Faces
- Cedric Alexander
- No Way Jose
- Titus O'Neil

Low Card Heels
- EC3
- Eric Young
- Mojo Rawley


Tag Team Faces
- Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder
- Heath Slater & Rhyno
- Lucha House Party
- The Usos
- The Viking Raiders

Tag Team Heels
- Anderson & Gallows
- AOP
- The Ascension
- The Revival


Women Faces
- Becky Lynch
- Dana Brooke
- Naomi
- Natalya
- Nikki Cross
- Sasha Banks

Women Heels
- Alexa Bliss
- Alicia Fox
- Lacey Evans
- Ruby Riott
- Sarah Logan
- Tamina

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SMACKDOWN

Upper Card Faces
- Finn Balor
- Kofi Kingston
- Roman Reigns

Upper Card Heels
- Daniel Bryan
- Elias
- Kevin Owens
- Randy Orton


Mid Card Faces
- Aleister Black
- Ali
- Chad Gable
- Matt Hardy
- R-Truth

Mid Card Heels
- Andrade
- Buddy Murphy
- Lars Sullivan
- Rowan
- Rusev
- Shane McMahon (both brands)
- Shinsuke Nakamura


Low Card Faces
- Apollo Crews
- Sin Cara

Low Card Heels
- Jinder Mahal
- Shelton Benjamin


Tag Team Faces
- Heavy Machinery
- The New Day

Tag Team Heels
- Daniel Bryan & Rowan
- The B-Team
- The Colons
- Rusev & Shinsuke Nakamura


Women Faces
- Asuka
- Bayley
- Becky Lynch
- Carmella
- Ember Moon
- Kairi Sane
- Mickie James

Women Heels
- Billie Kay
- Charlotte Flair
- Lana
- Liv Morgan
- Mandy Rose
- Peyton Royce
- Sonya Deville
- Zelina Vega

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Inactive / Brand Unassigned:

- Aiden English
- Big Show
- Bray Wyatt
- Brock Lesnar (?)
- Dolph Ziggler
- Fandango
- Harper
- Jeff Hardy
- John Cena
- Killian Dain
- Lio Rush
- Nia Jax
- Ronda Rousey
- Sheamus
- Triple H
- Undertaker

[Triple A]

Raw roster looks like dog shit...

[Triple A]

Owens def turning on Kofi (due to Bryan being the only real upper card heel on SD)

[erickman]

Raw roster looks like dog shit...

they killed the womens raw div

[Splaya]

Owens def turning on Kofi (due to Bryan being the only real upper card heel on SD)

While possible, I disagree. I think this is where you can finally turn Big E. The story is right there. He is pissed because it’s one week after he is gone and he is already replaced

[slik]

I think it will take a few months but I expect SDLive to overtake RAW in the ratings.

[Lock Jaw]

Randy Orton is a heel

[Evil Vito]

Cautiously optimistic that Andrade and/or Zayn will work their way into the upper card heel picture to feud with Rollins.

[Evil Vito]

Raw's tag division could potentially be really good, as could SmackDown's women's division

Kinda wish they'd just make those divisions brand-exclusive. I imagine the Raw women's/SD tag pictures will get old really fast.

[Evil Vito]

Oh yeah and also I think Joe is gonna turn up on Raw this week as a last minute shake-up. Doesn't make sense to have the IC AND US titles both on SmackDown.

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh my God. Raw’s main event heel picture is so bleak.

[slik]

It was last year too, last year the big heels on RAW looked to be Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler at this time.

[Triple A]

Randy Orton is a heel

Oh yeah I guess ur right due to him feuding with faces...

[Triple A]

Meltzer said Samoa Joe is def going to Raw also and is going to feud with Strowman... I'm gonna move him there on the roster I guess

[Emperor Smeat]

The RAW breakdown seems about right. Only people I'd swap are The Viking Experience to the heel tag side and Bliss to the face women side based on this week's RAW.

Smackdown breakdown also seems about right. Maybe swap Elias and Lars around in terms of heel status.

[Lock Jaw]

I believe Gallows & Anderson are also faces..... (Not that you could tell... that would take them being on TV)

[Triple A]

True @ War Raiders and Anderson & Gallows

idk about switching Elias and Lars though... feel like ur probably right in that Elias will feud with like Roman Reigns maybe... and Lars is def not on the upper card yet... not sure... Like can't see Elias in an upper card PPV match at all

[Evil Vito]

Ehhh, Idk about the Viking Experience being heel. They seemed like their normal selves on Monday and were playing to the crowd and stuff just like they always did.

Yeah they were teaming with the Revival but I feel like it might've been circumstantial. Probably would've just had them debut via squashing Gable and Roode later in the show if not for the fact that the Usos were already doing that.

guess we'll see

[Triple A]

Is Chad Gable a face or heel also...

I guess he and Roode technically turned heel right...

[Triple A]

Ehhh, Idk about the Viking Experience being heel. They seemed like their normal selves on Monday and were playing to the crowd and stuff just like they always did.

Yeah they were teaming with the Revival but I feel like it might've been circumstantial. Probably would've just had them debut via squashing Gable and Roode later in the show if not for the fact that the Usos were already doing that.

guess we'll see

yeah I think you're right actually (easily convinced)

did they ever do anything heelish in NXT... seems like they were always well liked by the crowd and never saw them say anything on the mic

[Emperor Smeat]

Ehhh, Idk about the Viking Experience being heel. They seemed like their normal selves on Monday and were playing to the crowd and stuff just like they always did.

Yeah they were teaming with the Revival but I feel like it might've been circumstantial. Probably would've just had them debut via squashing Gable and Roode later in the show if not for the fact that the Usos were already doing that.

guess we'll see

Them tagging with the Revival and pinning the RAW tag champs made me feel they probably are going to lean towards being heels going forward.

Going by WWE logic, Ryder/Hawkins vs. Vikings is likely the next tag title feud.

[Evil Vito]

Probably but I think it's mostly just gonna be the Vikings as faces squashing two geeks as opposed to it being a feud. Hawkins and Ryder were a cute story but they were obviously placeholder champions to transition the belts to the Vikings or Black/Ricochet.

They'll be back to facing The Ascension on Main Event within a month.

[Triple A]

Did it for NXT also

NXT roster starting to seem kinda sparse... but still lots of potential for sweet Takeover matches that haven't happened yet

NXT

Upper Card Faces
- Johnny Gargano
- Matt Riddle
- Tommaso Ciampa (injured)
- Velveteen Dream

Upper Card Heels
- Adam Cole


Mid Card Faces
- Danny Burch
- Keith Lee
- Kushida
- Oney Lorcan
- Pete Dunne (UK)
- Trent Seven (UK)
- Tyler Bate (UK)
- Tyler Breeze

Mid Card Heels
- Bobby Fish
- Dominik Dijakovic
- Kassius Ohno
- Kyle O'Reilly
- Roderick Strong


Low Card Faces
- Eric Bugenhagen
- Humberto Carrillo
- Raul Mendoza
- Shane Thorne

Low Card Heels
- Cezar Bononi
- Damien Priest
- Fabian Aichner
- Jaxson Ryker
- Kona Reeves
- Marcel Barthel
- Riddick Moss
- Steve Cutler
- Tino Sabbatelli
- Wesley Blake


Notable Performance Center Recruits
- Albert Hardie Jr. (ACH)
- Garza Jr.
- Jonah Rock
- Shane Strickland
- Trevor Lee


Women Faces
- Bianca Belair
- Candice LeRae
- Dakota Kai
- Deonna Purrazzo
- Io Shirai
- Mia Yim
- Taynara Conti
- Xia Li

Women Heels
- Aliyah
- Jessamyn Duke
- Marina Shafir
- Shayna Baszler
- Vanessa Borne


Tag Team Faces
- Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan
- Street Profits
- War Raiders / Viking Experience

Tag Team Heels
- Undisputed Era
- The Forgotten Sons
- Fabian Aichner & Marcel Barthel

[Evil Vito]

Aichner and Barthel are a tag team

The beauty of NXT though is there are constantly new guys being signed so I think that's naturally going to keep that brand "fresh"

[Mr. Nerfect]

God, both those rosters are thin as fuck.

[Triple A]

Updated with recent changes...

Only like 4 SD tag teams

[Bad News Gertner]

New tag team "Team 3.0" just debuted.

[xrodmuc316]

What I've NEVER understood about the brand extension is why do they move people and not use them?

Liv Morgan, Chad Gable, Eric Young, Apollo Crews, nothing from any of them.

If you aren't going to use them on the new show, what is the point?

[Mr. Nerfect]

What I've NEVER understood about the brand extension is why do they move people and not use them?

Liv Morgan, Chad Gable, Eric Young, Apollo Crews, nothing from any of them.

If you aren't going to use them on the new show, what is the point?

Change for the sake of change. I don’t know if it’s safe to even talk like the moves are over.

[Blonde Moment]

Right now, unless some things change, the moves are pointless as they still move therm back and forth anyways.

[xrodmuc316]

Change for the sake of change. I don’t know if it’s safe to even talk like the moves are over.

But if they never use them, what change has occurred?

[Mr. Nerfect]

When everyone swaps shows, you've still got the same shows going on. And as soon as you run through those matches, like they do everything, then you get sick of that before too long too. It doesn't actually make anything fresh.

[Sixx]

Kofi is now upper card?

[Droford]

aliester blacks coming back as a heel

i dont get it either

[Fignuts]

Yeah, so this thread is pretty pointless now eh?

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

True Wild Card Willy has made this mute.

[Triple A]

Kofi is now upper card?

He won the WWE Championship @ WrestleMania!

[Sixx]

He won the WWE Championship @ WrestleMania!

Oh, I did not know that.

Good for him.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Yeah, so this thread is pretty pointless now eh?

Yep.