Wrestlemania 33 will actually give the Raw tag team division a chance to make its mark during The Showcase of the Immortals as The Club – Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson – defend their Raw Tag Team Championship against Enzo & Cass as well as Sheamus and Cesaro in a Triple Threat Match.
The Club have suffered from some terrible booking since their split from AJ Styles during the Brand Split and have looked unconvincing despite their status as Raw Tag Team Champions. To be fair, though, the whole division has been suffering since the latter days of The New Day’s record-breaking run.
Wrestlemania 33 offers the WWE a chance to really change the direction of the division and help generate some genuine buzz around the belts and the Superstars involved. So, without further ado, here are 5 potential shocks that could happen in The Club vs. Enzo & Cass vs. Sheamus & Cesaro:
#5 Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson retain
Looking at the way things have been going these past few months, it will be a massive surprise if The Club comes out of this one with their status as Raw Tag Team Champions intact. They have been booked badly for months and have rarely looked like the force that dominated New Japan Pro Wrestling under the Bullet Club banner.
Both Sheamus & Cesaro and Enzo & Cass have looked relatively better than The Club and the WWE might just give them a chance with the belts to see if they can do better a job representing the division and improve its popularity.
It seems highly unlikely that Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson will walk away from The Show of Shows with a victory but we still hold out some weak hope of the WWE coming to its senses and booking The Club like the dominant faction it should be.
#4 Sheamus and Cesaro turn on each other
Sheamus and Cesaro have come a long way from the bickering Europeans who engaged in a Best of Seven series. Ultimately ending in a draw, the 7 matches served to unite the two foes in an unlikely tag team pairing which has done better than expected.
Despite looking pretty good as a pair, both the Irishman and the Swiss Superman are, at the end of the day, single’s competitors masquerading as a tag team. The WWE might well decide that now is a good time to bring them back into the single’s picture and break up the duo on The Grandest Stage of Them All.
It looks unlikely following the segment where they thanked Foley on this past episode of Raw but don’t put it past WWE Creative to throw a last minute swerve and break up the odd couple.
#3 Big Cass betrays Enzo
The team of Big Cass and Enzo might be one of the most popular in the entire company but their routine is getting old, very very quickly. With the fans getting rather bored of the same Sawft routine week-in and week-out, the WWE needs to make a change.
One possibility is putting the tag belts on the duo and seeing if that freshens them up and helps them regain their lost momentum. The other? Breaking them up for good. Everyone knows that Big Cass is destined for bigger things and will go on to become a single’s star after his run with Enzo, so why not pull the trigger now?
It would come as a huge shock if done at Wrestlemania 33 and can help push Big Cass into mainstream single’s competition following a feud with his former best friend. Sounds like a pretty good plan, if you ask me. Anything is better than hearing “How you doin?” yet again.
#2 The Broken Hardyz invade
The rumours have been making the rounds for weeks on end now that The Hardyz are imminently returning to the WWE. Despite signing a deal with Ring of Honor, the word on the street is that it is only a short term deal which would free up the broken brothers for a homecoming sooner rather than later.
What better stage for the return of The Hardyz and their Broken Brilliance than The Grandest Stage of Them All? It would truly shock the entire world if Broken Matt and Brother Nero made their presence felt at Wrestlemania 33.
The obvious first step upon their return would be to go after the tag team belts and introducing Matt and Jeff will breathe new life into the whole tag team division on Raw.
#1 Balor Club
The worldwide phenomenon that is Bullet Club would not exist without the efforts of Finn Balor – who formed the group when he was performing in New Japan Pro Wrestling under the name of Prince Devitt. Balor along with current Club members Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson absolutely terrorised NJPW.
The WWE has always kept the term “Balor Club” in reserve as their answer to Bullet Club should they ever decide to get the band back together. And, what better place to form a new force of power in the WWE than at Wrestlemania 33.
Since Finn Balor himself is without a feud at the moment, it would make perfect sense for him to help his buddies out and form the much-anticipated Balor Club.
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