Ever since Roman Reigns allegedly suffered an injury in the SummerSlam main event, rumours have been running amok about whether WWE considered changing the finish to his match against Jey Uso.
However, this was never the case. Dave Meltzer from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter debunked the theory in a recent interview with McGuire on Wrestling.
“I don’t… I’d never heard anyone even discuss that as a possibility. Yeah. You know, I mean, look, they’ve already got, you know, whatever it is, they’ve got plans going for Roman as champion for months down the line. So Jey wasn’t gonna win.”
“I know you could make the same thing about, well, you know, that’s why Cody and Sami shouldn’t have won, but, you know, Sami was much hotter than Jay. And whatever they had their direction that they were gonna go and with Cody, you know, they could’ve had Cody win, they could’ve had Cody lose.”
“The fact is, the business stayed good, so they weren’t wrong. I mean, could you say business might have been better with Cody? I think a little bit for the first couple of months, but this was their direction. They wanna build it, and they, you know, I got to think Cody’s eventually winning it.”
“So it’s just a question of, you know, keeping him hot enough and, you know, Brock did a great job with Cody. I think that was Brock’s best match in years.”
What Injury Did Roman Reigns Sustain In His Match With Jey Uso?
WWE have remained tight-lipped about the specifics of Roman Reigns’ injury at SummerSlam. However, it does not appear to have affected creative at all, as Reigns is currently scheduled to appear on SmackDown in a “Hail To The Chief” segment.
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