What if Kevin Owens beats Braun Strowman?

5. Kevin Owens regains the Universal Championship

Kevin Owens could cash-in for his second Universal Championship reign.

The most obvious outcome of Kevin Owens escaping his match with Strowman with the Money in the Bank contract would be that he winds up Universal Champion, too—possibly as soon as SummerSlam night.

There’s a history of guys cashing in at SummerSlam, including Alberto Del Rio stealing the WWE Championship from CM Punk in 2011, and Randy Orton taking the newly won title off of Daniel Bryan in 2013. Owens very much fits the profile of the opportunistic heel who would have no misgivings about cashing in on Lesnar, or especially Reigns in an exhausted state, after surviving a main event war. Perhaps most interestingly of all, this wouldn’t even be the first time Lesnar vs. Reigns involved a cash-in, given their first encounter back at WrestleMania 31 never reached a proper conclusion before Seth Rollins interjected himself into the proceedings.

While WWE hasn’t exactly booked Owens like a world champion lately, he’s got both the longevity and the legitimate skill in the ring, and all the more so on the mic, to justify this kind of push.