1) Scrapped Universal Title Plans
On his podcast, former WWE writer, Kazeem Famuyide shared some plans for the Universal Championship that ended up getting scrapped a few years ago.
According to Kazeem, Braun Strowman was supposed to win the Universal Title in Saudi Arabia (in 2018). This would have come after he beat Brock Lesnar.
WWE ended up scrapping these plans. Here is what Kazeem said (h/t to POST Wrestling):
There was one time where we all thought a match was going — this was — man, f*ck it, I’m not working there anymore. It was in Saudi [Crown Jewel 2018] and Braun [Strowman] was supposed to beat Brock [Lesnar]. This is right after Roman [Reigns] announced he had cancer, right? So, Brock and Braun was supposed to fight for the world title and we had a whole Monday Night Raw written with Braun Strowman as champion and then sike, Brock Lesnar wins and then as soon as Brock wins, we all had to go back into the office, rewrite the whole show and I just thought it was some sh*t where it’s just like oh, they’re just kind of keeping us on the D.L. [down low], whatever but I didn’t know they could change like [that].
My Take:
- Braun did end up winning the belt in 2020 after beating Goldberg. It probably would have been better for him to beat Brock Lesnar though. Brock was a guy who didn’t need another title reign and it would have helped Braun’s career a lot more.
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