2022 WWE Brand Transaction Tracker: Trades, Free Agents, More For Raw And Smackdown

Want to keep track of all the WWE trades? You’re in luck. Fightful will now keep a running list here in our resources section to go along with the updated rosters, contracts and inactive lists

See the 2020 list at this link.

2021 List

2022

• Sonya Deville returned to competition on January 28 on the Smackdown Brand.
• On January 28, Big E was moved from Raw to Smackdown. No explanation was given.
• Ronda Rousey returned at the WWE Royal Rumble. She’s a free agent, but challenged for Charlotte’s Smackdown Title.
• Lita appeared at the WWE Royal Rumble as a free agent, but appeared on Raw and Smackdown.
• Cody Rhodes returned to WWE on April 2. He’d appear on Raw after
• Ezekiel, the brother of Elias, returned to WWE Raw on April 4.
• Lacey Evans joined the Smackdown brand on April 8 after being left out of the draft pool.
• Mustafa Ali returned to WWE on April 25 for the Raw brand after previously being drafted to Smackdown.
• Asuka joined the Raw brand on April 25 after being left out of the draft pool.
• Commander Azeez was dropped from WWE Raw on June 27.
• Dakota Kai re-signed by WWE and debuted for the Raw brand on July 31.
• Karrion Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux were re-signed and debuted on WWE Smackdown August 5.
• Hit Row (B-Fab, Top Dolla, Ashante Thee Adonis) were re-signed and debuted on WWE Smackdown on August 12.
• Johnny Gargano re-signed with WWE on August 22 and appeared on WWE Raw. 
• Sarah Logan appeared in a vignette on October 8 WWE Smackdown, and re-signed
• Bray Wyatt appeared at WWE Extreme Rules 2022 on October 8 and had re-signed. He was added to the Smackdown roster. 
• Zelina Vega moved from Raw to Smackdown on October 7.
• Rey Mysterio moved from Raw to Smackdown on October 15, Baron Corbin moved from Smackdown to Raw on October 17. WWE announced this as a trade. 
• JBL debuted on WWE Raw on October 17 as a manager.
• Mia Yim returned to WWE Raw on November 7. 
• Tegan Nox returned to WWE Smackdown on December 2
• Bronson Reed returned to WWE Raw on December 19

2022 WWE Raw Call Ups

• Tommaso Ciampa joined WWE Raw on April 11
• Io Shirai was called up to WWE Raw on July 31 and renamed IYO SKY

2022 WWE Smackdown Call Ups

• Raquel Rodriguez, Gunther and Ludwig Kaiser (the former Marcel Barthel) debuted on April 8.
• Solo Sikoa and Giovanni Vinci debuted on the Smackdown brand on September 3.
• Legado Del Fantasma (Santos Escobar, Cruz Del Toro, Joaquin Wilde) were called up October 7.

2022 NXT Call Ups

• Apollo Crews moved from Raw to NXT on June 7
• Veer moved from WWE Raw to NXT on October 4.

2022 WWE Raw Releases

• Announcer Jimmy Smith was let go in October. 

2022 Smackdown Releases

• Cesaro’s WWE contract expired in February

2022 NXT Releases

• Danny Burch, Timothy Tatcher, Hachiman were released on January 5
• Samoa Joe released on January 6
• Brian Kendrick was granted his WWE release February 1
• Nash Carter was released from WWE on April 7
• Malcolm Bivens and Dakota Kai were released on April 29.
• Candice LeRae’s NXT contract expired on May 6. She would later re-sign.
• Mandy Rose was released by WWE on December 14.

Non-Roster releases

• Niguel McGuinness was released in October.