5 things that could happen on RAW next week: Shake Up Fallout

#1 No physical interaction between Roman and Brock, Joe chokes Roman out

Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman will return to RAW next week

Something gives me the feeling that Paul Heyman is going to do a lot of talking (shocker) and Roman is going to interrupt (shocker, part 2) but there will be no physical confrontation between the men fighting for the Universal Title next Friday. I think they will have Joe blindside Roman and have him choke him out on the ramp similar to what they did with Joe and Brock last summer.

It builds to Joe vs. Roman at Backlash, it makes Roman look like a bigger underdog (it’s not my preference, but this is how WWE seems to want it) for the cage match, and it fits in with the path WWE has been taking with both men.

I would love to see Roman beat Brock by escaping the cage, which gives Joe even more ammo to use, saying that he had to take the easy way out to finally defeat Lesnar, followed by Joe taking the Universal Title away from Roman at Backlash, only a week and 2 days after Roman wins it. Yes, they keep giving him the belt and taking it away and people would complain about it because they are having someone take the belt from Brock and end the year plus reign only to immediately give it to someone else, but there’s a motivation to do it.

Roman needs just one more little piece of the puzzle to be put in place before he turns heel, and losing the Universal Title almost immediately after winning it, since he has been chasing it for so long, is that piece.

I still don’t expect to have Roman turn heel, because WWE seems willing to die on the hill of Roman becoming a beloved superman/underdog good guy, but if it happens, this would be the perfect way to do it. That way they can give Roman a proper title reign as a bad guy, where it would likely be most effective.