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WWE Superstars list for the 2017 roster of wrestlers from Raw, SmackDown, NXT, 205 Live and more!

This archived page tracks the World Wrestling Entertainment roster for 2017, including WWE Superstars, brand assignments, free agents, developmental wrestlers, managers, authority figures, releases and other on-screen roster changes from that calendar year.

LEGEND:

🎓 indicates an NXT or developmental call-up to a higher roster level during 2017.

★ indicates a brand-new WWE signing, recruit, developmental prospect or first-time official/on-screen WWE roster member for 2017.

⇄ indicates a Raw/SmackDown brand trade, draft move or roster transfer during 2017.

🪃 indicates a returning WWE Superstar who came back to the company during 2017.

👔 indicates a notable role change, such as moving from wrestler to manager, authority figure or another on-screen role.

⏳ indicates a WWE signing, recruit or developmental prospect who had not yet debuted on WWE television by the end of 2017.

🏷️ indicates a wrestler or on-screen personality who changed their WWE ring name, gimmick name or on-screen name during 2017.

This historical roster list reflects WWE roster trades, the 2017 Superstar Shake-up, WWE releases in 2017, developmental call-ups, free agents and other movement from the year.

2017 WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW ROSTER LIST:

Below is the complete WWE Raw roster for 2017 as of December 31, including the Raw men's and women's divisions featuring all active male and female WWE Superstars assigned to the red brand.

WWE RAW MEN'S ROSTER 2017:

• Apollo Crews ⇄
• Big Cass
• Bo Dallas
• Braun Strowman
• Bray Wyatt ⇄
• Brock Lesnar
• Cesaro
• Curt Hawkins ⇄
• Curtis Axel
• Dash Wilder
• Dean Ambrose ⇄
• Elias 🎓🏷️ (formerly Elias Samson)
• Finn Balor
• Goldust
• Heath Slater ⇄
• Jeff Hardy 🪃
• Jason Jordan ⇄
• Kane ⇄
• Karl Anderson
• Luke Gallows
• Matt Hardy 🪃
• The Miz ⇄
• R-Truth
• Rhyno ⇄
• Roman Reigns
• Samoa Joe 🎓
• Scott Dawson
• Seth Rollins
• Sheamus
• Titus O'Neil

WWE RAW WOMEN'S ROSTER 2017:

• Alexa Bliss ⇄
• Alicia Fox
• Asuka 🎓
• Bayley
• Dana Brooke
• Mandy Rose 🎓
• Mickie James ⇄
• Nia Jax
• Paige
• Sasha Banks
• Sonya Deville 🎓

2017 WWE SMACKDOWN ROSTER LIST:

Below is the complete WWE SmackDown roster for 2017 as of December 31, including the SmackDown men's and women's divisions featuring all active male and female WWE Superstars assigned to the blue brand.

WWE SMACKDOWN MEN'S ROSTER 2017:

• Aiden English
• AJ Styles
• Baron Corbin
• Big E ⇄
• Bobby Roode 🎓
• Chad Gable ⇄
• Dolph Ziggler
• Epico Colon ⇄
• Fandango
• Harper / Luke Harper
• Jey Uso
• Jimmy Uso
• Jinder Mahal ⇄
• Kofi Kingston ⇄
• Kevin Owens ⇄
• Konnor
• Mike Kanellis ★
• Mojo Rawley
• Primo Colon ⇄
• Randy Orton
• Rowan / Erick Rowan
• Rusev ⇄
• Sami Zayn ⇄
• Shane McMahon
• Shelton Benjamin 🪃
• Shinsuke Nakamura 🎓
• Sin Cara ⇄
• Tye Dillinger 🎓
• Tyler Breeze
• Viktor
• Xavier Woods ⇄
• Zack Ryder

WWE SMACKDOWN WOMEN'S ROSTER 2017:

• Becky Lynch
• Carmella
• Charlotte Flair ⇄
• Lana ⇄👔 (manager/valet → SmackDown women's division wrestler)
• Liv Morgan 🎓
• Naomi
• Natalya
• Ruby Riott 🎓🏷️ (formerly Ruby Riot)
• Sarah Logan 🎓
• Tamina ⇄

2017 WWE NXT ROSTER LIST:

Below is the complete WWE NXT roster for 2017 as of December 31. Wrestlers called up to the main roster are listed under their final main roster section instead of being duplicated here.

WWE NXT MEN'S ROSTER 2017:

• Adam Cole ★
• Akam
• Aleister Black ★ (signed in 2016; made his WWE television debut in 2017)
• Alexander Wolfe
• Angelo Dawkins
• Andrade "Cien" Almas
• Bobby Fish ★
• Buddy Murphy
• Cezar Bononi ★
• Danny Burch
• Drew McIntyre 🪃
• Eric Young
• Fabian Aichner ★ (Cruiserweight Classic participant in 2016; added to the NXT/developmental roster in 2017)
• Johnny Gargano
• Kassius Ohno 🪃
• Killian Dain
• Kyle O'Reilly ★
• Lars Sullivan ★🏷️ (formerly Dylan Miley; signed before 2017, made his WWE television debut in 2017)
• Lio Rush ★
• Montez Ford ★ (signed before 2017; made his WWE television debut in 2017)
• Nick Miller
• No Way Jose
• Oney Lorcan
• Otis Dozovic
• Raul Mendoza ★ (Cruiserweight Classic participant in 2016; added to the NXT/developmental roster in 2017)
• Rezar
• Riddick Moss
• Roderick Strong
• Shane Thorne
• Steve Cutler
• Tino Sabbatelli
• Tommaso Ciampa
• Tucker Knight
• Velveteen Dream 🏷️ (formerly Patrick Clark)
• Wesley Blake

WWE NXT WOMEN'S ROSTER 2017:

• Abbey Laith ★
• Aliyah
• Bianca Belair ★ (signed in 2016; made her WWE television debut in 2017)
• Billie Kay
• Dakota Kai ★ (signed in 2016; made her WWE television debut in 2017)
• Ember Moon
• Kairi Sane ★
• Kavita Devi ★
• Lacey Evans ★ (signed in 2016; made her WWE television debut in 2017)
• Nikki Cross
• Peyton Royce
• Reina Gonzalez ★ (signed in 2016; made her WWE television debut in 2017)
• Rhea Ripley ★
• Sage Beckett ★
• Shayna Baszler ★
• Taynara Conti ★
• Vanessa Borne ★ (signed in 2016; made her WWE television debut in 2017)
• Xia Li ★
• Zeda ★

WWE PERFORMANCE CENTER / DEVELOPMENTAL RECRUITS 2017:

• Marcel Barthel ★⏳ (signed in 2017, but had not debuted on WWE television by the end of the year)
• Nasser Alruwayeh ★⏳ (signed in 2017, but had not debuted on WWE television by the end of the year)
• Nixon Newell ★⏳ (signed in 2017, but had not debuted on WWE television by the end of the year)
• Shadia Bseiso ★⏳ (signed in 2017, but had not debuted on WWE television by the end of the year)

2017 WWE 205 LIVE ROSTER LIST:

Below is the WWE 205 Live roster for 2017 as of December 31. Some cruiserweight wrestlers may be listed under Raw, SmackDown or NXT instead when that better reflects their final roster placement.

WWE 205 LIVE ROSTER 2017:

• Akira Tozawa
• Ariya Daivari
• The Brian Kendrick
• Cedric Alexander
• Drew Gulak
• Enzo Amore ⇄
• Gentleman Jack Gallagher
• Gran Metalik
• Hideo Itami 🎓
• Kalisto ⇄
• Lince Dorado
• Mustafa Ali
• Neville (inactive after October 2017)
• Noam Dar
• Rich Swann (suspended in December 2017)
• TJP
• Tony Nese

2017 WWE UNITED KINGDOM DIVISION ROSTER LIST:

This section covers wrestlers featured through WWE's United Kingdom Championship system in 2017, before the launch of the NXT UK brand.

WWE UNITED KINGDOM DIVISION 2017:

• Danny Burch 🪃
• Dan Moloney ★
• H.C. Dyer ★
• James Drake ★
• Jordan Devlin ★
• Joseph Conners ★
• Mark Andrews ★
• Pete Dunne ★
• Roy Johnson ★
• Sam Gradwell ★
• Saxon Huxley ★
• Trent Seven ★
• Tucker ★
• Tyler Bate ★
• Tyson T-Bone ★
• Wolfgang ★

NO BRAND OR NON-EXCLUSIVE WWE FREE AGENTS IN 2017:

The following WWE Superstars were signed to the roster as of December 31, 2017, but were not cleanly assigned to Raw, SmackDown, NXT or another specific brand due to part-time status, injury, inactivity, storyline free agency, draft status or special attraction appearances.

2017 WWE FREE AGENTS (MEN'S DIVISION):

• Big Show
• Goldberg
• The Great Khali
• John Cena
• Kurt Angle 🪃👔 (returning WWE Hall of Famer → Raw General Manager and occasional wrestler)
• Mark Henry
• Triple H
• The Undertaker

2017 WWE FREE AGENTS (WOMEN'S DIVISION):

• Beth Phoenix
• Nikki Bella

WWE OTHER ON-SCREEN CHARACTERS 2017 LIST:

2017 WWE MANAGERS & VALETS LIST:

• James Ellsworth (manager of Carmella until November 15, 2017)
• Maria Kanellis 🪃 (manager/valet for Mike Kanellis)
• Maryse ⇄ (manager of The Miz)
• Paul Ellering
• Paul Heyman
• Samir Singh ★🏷️ (formerly Gurv Sihra)
• Sunil Singh ★🏷️ (formerly Harv Sihra)
• Zelina Vega ★

2017 WWE AUTHORITY FIGURES LIST:

• Daniel Bryan (SmackDown LIVE General Manager)
• Kurt Angle 🪃👔 (returning WWE Hall of Famer → Raw General Manager)
• Mick Foley (Raw General Manager until March 20, 2017)
• Shane McMahon (SmackDown LIVE Commissioner)
• Stephanie McMahon (Raw Commissioner)
• Triple H (WWE COO)
• William Regal (NXT General Manager)

LIST OF WRESTLERS & SUPERSTARS RELEASED FROM WWE IN 2017:

The following WWE Superstars were released, quit, retired, had their contracts expire, or were otherwise moved off the active WWE roster during 2017.

WWE RELEASES 2017 - MEN'S DIVISION:

• Austin Aries
• Bronson Matthews
• Chris Atkins
• Chris Jericho (inactive after July 2017; not listed as an official WWE release)
• Darren Young
• HoHo Lun
• Jack Swagger
• James Ellsworth
• Kenny
• Lee Gao
• Mada
• Mikey
• Sawyer Fulton
• Simon Gotch
• Tajiri
• Theophilus Agbi

WWE RELEASES 2017 - WOMEN'S DIVISION:

• Andrea D'Marco (interviewer)
• Emma
• Eva Marie
• Rosa Mendes
• Summer Rae

WWE ROLE CHANGES / NON-WRESTLING STATUS CHANGES 2017:

• Tyson Kidd 👔 (wrestler → producer)

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