WWE Raw: 4 hints that Baron Corbin will win the Universal Championship soon
Baron Corbin teamed with Bobby Lashley to defeat the dysfunctional team of Seth Rollins and AJ Styles on the May 6 episode of WWE Raw.
The match was less about Corbin and more about the current Universal Championship storyline between Rollins and Styles, whose rivalry has become increasingly heated after “The Phenomenal One” sent the champion through a table during last week’s Money In The Bank contract signing.
This week’s encounter came to an end when Styles ‘inadvertently’ struck his tag partner with a Phenomenal Forearm before abandoning him by walking to the back. That then allowed Corbin to take advantage by hitting the End of Days on Rollins to pick up the win.
Never one to pass up an opportunity to gloat, the former acting General Manager of Raw took to Twitter after the show, writing: "VICTORY!!! Hahaha I just pinned the universal champion!"
Corbin will take part in the upcoming Money In The Bank ladder match at the MITB pay-per-view on May 19. As the 2017 winner of the men's contract, he will enter the event as one of the favourites to claim the briefcase again.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at four recent hints which suggest that he will win the Universal Championship in the not-too-distant future.
#4 WWE moved ahead quickly with Seth Rollins vs. AJ Styles
Following the 2019 Superstar Shake-Up, it was clear that there was one dream match that everybody wanted to see on Raw: Seth Rollins vs. AJ Styles.
In previous years, whenever the roster changes have set up an inevitable dream match like that, WWE has had a tendency to wait several months down the line for the encounter to happen (e.g. Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura and Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 34).
As soon as Styles was drafted to Raw, however, his pursuit of Rollins’ Universal Championship began, bringing an end to talk that the two men could meet at SummerSlam 2019 or WrestleMania 36 next year.
If WWE had waited until a later date for Rollins vs. Styles, it would have been predictable that the former Shield member would keep his title over the next few months. Now, given that the company decided to move ahead with Raw’s biggest match just four weeks after the Shake-Up, it opens up a very real possibility that there could be another title change this summer when the current storyline is over.