Big Change Confirmed For WWE WrestleMania 38 Title Match

Former champs Alpha Academy added to match against RK-Bro and Street Profits.

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It looks like Chad Gable will finally get a WrestleMania spotlight this year.

Gable and Otis' Alpha Academy have been officially added to the Raw Tag Team Championship match at WrestleMania 38 after attacking champs RK-Bro and Street Profits last week. The duo have quickly become one of the more popular acts on Raw, with Gable's antics carrying numerous segments, and both men's wrestling abilities giving them credibility in the ring.

Alpha Academy won the Raw tag titles in January and held them until earlier this month, when they lost the straps back to RK-Bro in a wonderful triple threat tag match that featured Seth Rollins & Kevin Owens. That tag match was in part set up by an entertaining academic challenge between the Alphas and RK-Bro.

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After winning the tag titles, RK-Bro was challenged last week by the Street Profits, who defeated Randy Orton & Riddle before they recaptured the titles. Last week's attack by Gable & Otis apparently then was enough to get them added to the match, though being former champs probably should have been more of a determining factor.

If this match is anything like the Raw tag match a couple of weeks ago, this could be a show-stealer: Gable's in-ring acumen has been on full display recently, Montez Ford is likely to pull out some insane stunt that no human should be able to do, and Orton has bizarrely been the hottest hot tag guy in WWE in recent months. Throw those ingredients together and you've got something here.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.