Braun Strowman's path to SummerSlam
Braun Strowman may not have won the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 33 this past Sunday, but that is not going to stop him as he continues to mark his path of destruction.
A loss in the battle royal, which most people favoured him to leave victorious, isn’t even a small step backwards for the Monster Among Men. That was made clear on Monday Night RAW when he became the first man to step up to Brock Lesnar after the Beast’s Universal Championship victory.
Let’s take a look at how his path could possibly lead to SummerSlam.
Toppling Roman Reigns
This is a difficult situation. Braun Strowman is clearly being positioned for a run at the Universal Championship but he has one obstacle in his path before he can take his shot at the title. Roman Reigns.
This is a self-imposed obstacle because Roman is surely happy to be done with Braun, who is small potatoes compared to The Undertaker, who Roman himself toppled at WrestleMania.
There hasn’t been a final resolution to their rivalry, however, as their last match ended inconclusively, and their only other singles match ended with Roman standing victorious over Strowman.
Braun has a demon to exorcise, and it may be a more difficult demon than even the Beast Incarnate himself.
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Roman Reigns just defeated The Undertaker. At WrestleMania. He beat The Undertaker at WrestleMania and, by the way it appears, he also retired The Undertaker at WrestleMania.
How the heck would you propose that Braun Strowman would possibly stand any chance at beating Roman Reigns after The Big Dog conquered such a massive foe? It seems impossible. Not even improbable, but rather impossible.
So what do you do? WWE backed themselves into a corner by not resolving the Reigns - Strowman beef before WrestleMania 33. There’s a massive gap in Braun Strowman’s timeline that WWE seems intent to resolve.
He backed off from a fight with Lesnar after clearly making a challenge, which came right after Brock made his own challenge to Reigns. It was like Strowman was saying that Brock had to wait to get his hands on Reigns until after Braun got to finish what he started.
That makes perfect sense in a world that didn’t just see Roman Reigns defeat The Undertaker at WrestleMania. But that did happen.
The best way to get over the hurdle is to have a match in which neither man wins or loses. Well, one of them would lose, but not by pinfall or submission. It would end by a count out with Strowman winning after Roman’s next foe attacks him and they fight out of the arena.
That way, Strowman wins, the void is mostly filled (it’s the closest you’re going to get) and Roman still looks strong.