3 male WWE Superstars who relinquished their championship titles

#1 Roman Reigns

Second superstar to relinquish the Universal Championship belt

Roman Reigns was the face of the company for many years. He main evented WrestleMania for 4 consecutive years and is also a grand slam champion. He became the Universal Champion by defeating Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam 2018.

On the 22 October 2018 episode of Monday Night Raw, Roman told the WWE Universe that he had been living with leukemia for 11 years. He also said that since the leukemia was back, he couldn't be a fighting champion anymore, so he had to relinquish the Universal title.

Roman was scheduled to defend his title against Braun Strowman and Brock Lesnar at Crown Jewel 2018, but Lesnar and Strowman fought one on one for the vacant Universal Championship instead.