WWE Universal Champion: Brock Lesnar
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RAW’s main event scene is an overcrowded mess at this point. There are so many people vying for that elusive top spot on the program that you can’t really tell whose supposed to be the show’s biggest star.
Is it WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens and his best friend Chris Jericho, who’ve interfered in each other’s matches so much that neither one can be expected to win cleanly ever?
Is it the Undertaker, whose loyalty to SmackDown appears to have only been for one show?
Is it Roman Reigns, who keeps getting opportunity after opportunity no matter how much people hate him?
Or is it the part-time duo of Goldberg and Brock Lesnar? Well, if you believe more rumours circulating about, it’s likely the latter duo.
It's believed that Vince is planning for Goldberg and Brock Lesnar’s WrestleMania confrontation to be for the WWE Championship. That means that somewhere down the line (most likely at WWE Fastlane 2017), Goldberg will defeat Kevin Owens for the Universal Championship and then defend it at ‘Mania against Lesnar.
It’s further believed that, after defeating Goldberg for the title, Lesnar will hold the Universal Championship until SummerSlam, at which point he’ll drop the belt to someone else, with the top two likely winners being either Braun Strowman or Roman Reigns.
If WWE does go down this path, it might not actually be a good decision. Lesnar will likely do what he did when he was the champion in 2014-2015: act as a part-time champion that only appeared when he wanted to, or on a limited schedule.
Unless something in Lesnar’s contract has changed, he wouldn’t be making many appearances as champion. Worse, Lesnar will always be cheered over someone like Roman Reigns, so their plan to re-crown Reigns at SummerSlam 2017 could be just another repetition of the main event of WrestleMania 32.
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