WWE Raw preview, April 16, 2018: The 2018 Superstar Shake-up begins

Where will your favorite Superstars end up when Raw and SmackDown LIVE get shaken up in a
special two-night event? Don’t miss the first night of the Superstar Shake-up Monday at 8/7 C
on USA Network. Also on Raw, “Woken” Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt battle The Revival in the final
round of the Tag Team Eliminator, and contentious best friends Bayley and Sasha Banks square off one-on-one.

Both brands get shaken up

Will Roman Reigns get his hands on Samoa Joe?

Bayley and Sasha Banks settle their differences

Who will battle Cesaro & Sheamus at WWE Greatest Royal Rumble on April 27?

Will Ronda Rousey face repercussions after attacking Stephanie McMahon again?

Both brands get shaken up

One week after NXT Superstars Ember Moon, No Way Jose and The Authors of Pain rocked the
foundations of Monday Night Raw, the red brand gets shaken up again in the 2018 Superstar
Shake-up, when Raw Superstars will move to SmackDown LIVE and vice versa.
Will Braun Strowman’s path of destruction take him to Team Blue? Might we see SmackDown LIVE
stalwarts like Shinsuke Nakamura or Becky Lynch join the red brand? Which teams will be split up,
and which alliances will be re-forged? The Superstar Shake-up begins on Raw and continues the
following night on SmackDown LIVE, and you won’t want to miss a moment.

Who will battle Cesaro & Sheamus at WWE Greatest Royal Rumble on April 27?

Due to Braun Strowman’s tag team partner Nicholas’ scheduling conflicts — he’s in fourth grade,
after all — the newly crowned Raw Tag Team Champions were forced to relinquish their titles,
prompting Raw General Manager Kurt Angle to schedule a Tag Team Eliminator to determine who
will battle former champions The Bar in Saudi Arabia at WWE Greatest Royal Rumble.
2018 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal Winner “Woken” Matt Hardy successfully teamed with
former nemesis Bray Wyatt to defeat Titus Worldwide last week, while The Revival conquered Luke
Gallows & Karl Anderson on the same night. This coming Monday night, Raw’s Woken tandem will
take on the “Top Guys” for the right to challenge The Bar on April 27, live on WWE Network. Who will advance?

Bayley and Sasha Banks settle their differences

Things have been tense between longtime friends Bayley and Sasha Banks in recent weeks, and
even though they clashed in the first-ever WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal, there’s still
a lot of unfinished business between them.
After The Huggable One inadvertently attacked The Boss during Banks’ match against Mandy Rose,
Bayley and Sasha will battle one-on-one on Raw in Hartford, Conn. Will this bout mark the end
of their friendship, or will it signal the beginning of their reconciliation?

Will Ronda Rousey face repercussions after attacking Stephanie McMahon again?

In an impressive WrestleMania debut, “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey teamed with Kurt Angle to defeat
Stephanie McMahon & Triple H, doing some serious damage to the Raw Commissioner’s left arm
in the process.
When Stephanie attempted to “befriend” Ronda and put the WWE “machine” behind The Baddest
Woman on the Planet, Rousey saw through the façade and went to work on Stephanie’s arm
once again, further damaging the injured limb.
The McMahons aren’t known for taking disrespect lightly, so what awaits Ronda when she enters Raw on Monday?

Will Roman Reigns get his hands on Samoa Joe?

One night after getting physically mauled by Universal Champion Brock Lesnar in the main event of
WrestleMania, Roman Reigns was the recipient of a verbal assault by Samoa Joe the following night on Raw.
Claiming that The Beast “exposed” Reigns as a “failure,” The Samoan Submission Machine revealed
that after Lesnar once again conquers The Big Dog in their Universal Championship Steel Cage
Match at WWE Greatest Royal Rumble on April 27, Reigns will face further punishment at the hands
of Joe at WWE Backlash on May 6.
How will Reigns respond?