What’s the story?
While we still have a few more days until Monday’s “Superstar Shake-up” on Raw, speculation has abounded across the Internet as to what it could mean for WWE’s rosters. A post today at PWInsider hints at there potentially being a reunion of a popular faction on SmackDown, among other rumours.
In case you didn’t know...
Last summer, the then-recently reunited Bullet Club (now known as the cleverly named “The Club”) saw themselves quickly separated in the WWE Draft. Gallows and Anderon were placed on Raw and immediately put into the tag team title hunt.
Meanwhile, AJ Styles was moved to SmackDown to be one of the main faces on that show. All three members would go on to win titles on their respective brands, but many fans have been clamouring for a reunion.
The heart of the matter
If PWInsider is to be believed, those fans may just get their way.
The site claims that "there was a desire within the company to reunite him with Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows" and that " there [is] more talk of Gallows and Anderson moving to SmackDown and Styles remaining where he is.”
The team has had a few interactions with each other in some backstage segments in the past, but haven’t had anything to do with each other outside of those.
What’s next?
Whether this means a reunion of the group or a feud between them – if it even happens at all – remains to be seen. Outside of The Club, there is talk of possible changes to the women’s divisions, mentioning a possible trade of Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair between shows.
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It was also speculated in the report that Aiden English could be moved to Raw to start a solo run and The New Day could be headed over to SmackDown.
Author’s take
Personally, as far as I see it, The Club doesn’t go to SmackDown if The New Day does, and vice versa. Considering their earlier feud was such a mess (”Old Day”, anybody?), they need to keep these two teams as far away from each other as they can.
Gallows and Anderson are a good fit for the SmackDown brand, anyway. Even if they don’t reunite The Club, they can still have great matches with the other teams on the show.
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