5 Major Mistakes WWE Made With The Superstar Shake-up

5. Redistribution Of Dearth

The undercard quotient on both Raw and SmackDown Live! was worryingly high before this year's Superstar Shake-up. Few performers these days are permitted to breakout stars on their own steam as it is. Lower card performers are invariably booked as struggling losers.

In certain cases though, it's an understandable and necessary evil of having such large rosters, and one of the reasons why such these annual switch-arounds are a necessity in the separate brands era.

Unfortunately, most of the rank-and-file jumped with little or no fanfare, suggesting that they'll take up exactly the same talent enhancement role but on a different night of the week.

Did you give a sh*t that The Ascension moved to Raw? Did you even notice that Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows went in the opposite direction? R-Truth was probably only in Wednesday discussions due to a bizarre oversell from The New Day that seemed intent on teasing Hulk Hogan before revealing the shambling fool to engage in some lame handshake craic with Tye Dillinger.

In hindsight, less was probably more on the lower rungs of the ladder. Make changes, sure, but 19 and 17 switches on Raw and SmackDown Live! respectively seemed unnecessarily high as it was happening. Halving the number of journeymen travellers could have calmed that down.