Roman Reigns’ World Heavyweight Championship

This past weekend at WrestleMania 42, Roman Reigns dethroned CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship within the important event of Night 2 to win his seventh world title in WWE. Reigns’ victory on Sunday marks the primary time he’s held gold since his iconic 1316-day run as WWE Universal Champion (later as WWE Undisputed Champion), and despite revealing that he’ll be a full-time star for the summer, one other lengthy title reign is unlikely. At this point, the important event scene in WWE has many alternative challengers in comparison with the last time Reigns led the division two years ago, making the opponent that WWE will decide to eventually defeat him unpredictable.  

Whether the corporate decides to have Reigns defeated by a young up-and-coming star or a important event talent on “WWE Raw” today, the wrestler chosen should either need the victory over the “Tribal Chief” to raise their profession, or be worthy enough of beating him for the brand’s top title. Due to this fact, on this edition of Breaking Down The Belts, we’ve named one star who we imagine WWE views as the subsequent World Heavyweight Champion, and one other who should win the title as an alternative.

It has been almost nine months since GUNTHER last held the World Heavyweight Championship, but now he’s turn into the “Profession Killer” and has yet to lose a singles match since. Winning back the title may very well be his next goal.

Within the last five months, GUNTHER has retired John Cena in addition to AJ Styles, but his most up-to-date victory got here against Seth Rollins this past weekend at WrestleMania 42. After defeating three of one of the best which have ever stepped in a WWE ring, it’s hard to assume GUNTHER won’t be inserted back into the title picture sometime soon, especially since he’s owed a favor from one of the vital powerful men within the industry. 

To this point, the one creative direction that is been laid out for GUNTHER is an upcoming feud with LA Knight, and Paul Heyman being in his debt as a consequence of the events the preceded WrestleMania. Three weeks ago, GUNTHER saved Heyman from an angered Rollins, who was trying to get his revenge on “The Oracle” for The Vision’s betrayal. In exchange, Heyman offered to repay GUNTHER with a favor, which is purported to be a match against Brock Lesnar, but after “The Beast” seemingly retired at WrestleMania, the ECW legend could as an alternative secure the Austrian star a world title match against his former client.

GUNTHER vs. Reigns is one in all the largest matches WWE could book this 12 months, and in the event that they determine to schedule the first-time matchup, it’s hard to assume the corporate would sacrifice the streak of their most unbeatable star so as to further elevate Reigns. GUNTHER is one in all the few realistic options to beat the champion.

Although GUNTHER may very well be lined as much as be the subsequent World Heavyweight Champion, it might be wiser to strike while the iron is hot and have Oba Femi dethrone Reigns first.

After defeating Lesnar at WrestleMania 42, Femi is one in all the most popular performers in skilled wrestling and has quickly turn into WWE’s most promising young star. When Lesnar first broke into the wrestling business, he became world champion just eight months after making his WWE debut at 25 years of age, becoming the youngest star to win the title in history on the time. Although WWE has often waited to crown rising stars, similar to Bron Breakker or Jacob Fatu, who’ve been on the important roster for 2 years but have received little to no world title opportunities, Femi would immediately be launched into superstardom if he were to defeat one in all the corporate’s most dominant performers to turn into World Heavyweight Champion.

Overall, WWE could elect to attend until WrestleMania 43 to tug the trigger on Femi so as to not fast-track his trajectory, but doing so also means the corporate would want to have a 12 months’s value of creative plans for “The Ruler” and keep his popularity from cooling off. SummerSlam may very well be a possible destination for Femi to turn into champion, as it might give Reigns three months with the title and permit WWE to properly capitalize on the 28-year-old’s momentum at their second biggest show of the 12 months.