Backstage Rumor on WWE’s Social Media Team ‘Jumping the Gun’ on Revealing the New Faction Before Raw

– As previously noted, a new faction wearing all-black outfits similar to Akira Tozawa’s ninjas were causing trouble on last night’s Raw and set fire to a generator. Fightful Select released an update with some more details on the new, still currently unnamed, faction. WWE apparently revealed too much too early about the group ahead of their short appearance on last night’s USA Network broadcast.

News of the faction had already leaked before last night’s broadcast. As a result, WWE later issued an official announcement saying that a new faction was arriving on last night’s Raw. Per Fightful’s report, the WWE social media team apparently “jumped the gun” so to speak by announcing the news on the faction debuting last night on Raw after news about this new stable was leaked to Pro Wrestling Sheet.

So apparently, the social media news team spoke too soon about the new faction, who barely appeared on last night’s show and did not make their presence known outside of setting fire to the generator. The members of this new faction are still unknown. Whether this setup for a group trying to disrupt Raw actually has a payoff, unlike the Smackdown hacker angle, remains to be seen.