There have been two notable official WWE brand switches with Roman Reigns moving to Raw and Rhea Ripley to SmackDown.
WrestleMania 42 saw Reigns win the World Heavyweight Championship from CM Punk, while Ripley won the WWE Women’s Title from Jade Cargill.
Despite appearing exclusively on Raw in the lead up to WrestleMania following his Royal Rumble win, the official WWE roster page had Reigns still listed as a member of the SmackDown roster.
That has changed today as he’s now been moved over to Raw, which follows recent comments from him saying he’ll be full-time on WWE TV during the summer.
He appeared on Raw last week and was challenged to a World Heavyweight Title match at WWE Backlash by Jacob Fatu, with Reigns set to respond to Fatu on tonight’s episode.
As of this writing, Fatu is still listed on SmackDown.
Meanwhile, Rhea Ripley was officially on the WWE Raw roster leading up to WrestleMania despite challenging SmackDown’s Jade Cargill for the WWE Women’s Championship after winning the Elimination Chamber match.
Now, the official WWE roster page reflects Ripley now being listed on the SmackDown roster, a move she announced on Raw recently.
WWE Roster Overhaul After WrestleMania
As well as these top level brand switches, there have been a number of notable changes to the WWE roster in the wake of WrestleMania.
25 WWE talents are known to have been released by the company over the past few days, including many from the main roster – the full list of which you can find by clicking here.
Also, there have been several main roster call-ups from NXT, with Ethan Page, Joe Hendry and Sol Ruca joining Raw, and Fatal Influence and Ricky Saints joining SmackDown.
Page, Ruca and especially Fatal Influence have already made a great impression and look like they’ll be great assets to freshen up WWE creative.
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