Bobby Lashley defeated Kevin Owens, Seth Rollins and Big E to earn a shot at the WWE championship vs Brock Lesnar.
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On Saturday, Brock Lesnar became WWE champion after being inserted into a fatal five-way at the Day 1 pay-per-view. That was a result of Roman Reigns testing positive for COVID-19. Now an unexpected champion, Lesnar was in need of a challenger at the upcoming Royal Rumble event.
That challenger was determined during Raw on Monday night. The men originally scheduled for the Day 1 match — Big E, Bobby Lashley, Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens — competed for the right to face Lesnar on Jan. 29. It was Lashley who emerged victorious, setting up a first-ever clash between two of WWE’s biggest powerhouses.
The show opened with Paul Heyman welcoming his client, Brock Lesnar, to the ring with new WWE championship in hand. Lesnar said that he knew Roman Reigns was at home watching “the real champion,” before thanking Heyman for pulling strings to get him in the WWE championship match at Day 1. Heyman then confirmed that Lesnar would defend the title later in the month at Royal Rumble, facing the winner of the fatal four-way that would be taking place later in the night.
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Bobby Lashley defeated Kevin Owens, Seth Rollins and Big E to earn a shot at the WWE championship. The match went from the ring to ringside and eventually through the crowd and into the upper concourse. Big E was put through the announce table but later put Owens through a merchandise table. Rollins and Owens worked together for much of the match, having already agreed that they’d help each other so that one could beat Lesnar at Royal Rumble and then they’d face each other in the main event of WrestleMania. Both kept to their word, not breaking pins by the other man. In the end, Lashley managed to hit spears on all three other men before pinning Owens to secure his title shot at the Royal Rumble. When asked for a comment after the match, Lesnar simply said to tell Roman Reigns that he’d see him at SmackDown on Friday.
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