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As if WrestleMania Week wasn’t enough, WWE has decided to just keep the ball rolling and orchestrate as much chaos as possible on the way toward both the Greatest Royal Rumble and Backlash events with the announcement that next week, there will be another Superstar Shake-up.
Last year, this was conceptualized as a sort of miniature WWE Draft, basically mixing styles of old where it comes off a bit less randomized than the lottery, but isn’t as rigid of a program as watching two general managers debate their trades.
What it all boils down to is that this is an attempt to freshen up the rosters, rearrange wrestlers to allow for new feuds and different storylines to be told, and adjust any balancing problems the two shows might need due to injuries or a lack of star power or anything of that sort, now that we’re at the beginning of a new unofficial wrestling season.
Ideally, WWE has to try to keep track of everybody they want to push over the next year, everybody who could be taking time off, all of the feuds we’ve already seen too much of and the ones we want to see down the line, while also factoring in every single champion for Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live, plans for WrestleMania next year and the more immediate matters of the Greatest Royal Rumble and Backlash.
This is all so much of an overload that one thing in particular is sure to be lost in the shuffle: 205 Live.
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