What if Roman Reigns gets added to the Universal Championship match at WrestleMania 35

Roman Reigns is back in the WWE Universe. He announced that his cancer was in remission and promptly got back into the action including getting physical during his comeback episode.

Then, in Philadelphia, he staged a Shield reunion and set the table for his participation in a six-man tag match at Fastlane.

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In establishing his intentions to get the band back together, WWE briefly teased that Reigns could be added to the Universal Championship match at WrestleMania, in Seth Rollins citing that he’d never lost his title and deserved an opportunity to regain it.

Reigns quickly rebuffed him, but there’s no telling for sure if WWE was having him play the modest nice guy to further court fans, while actually intending to work him into the match.

After all, if WWE were to pull the trigger on another Reigns world title victory at WrestleMania, could there be a better time in terms of fan response to him?

This article takes a look at what might happen if Reigns does get added to the Universal Championship match at WrestleMania.

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#4 The Dean Ambrose factor

Dean Ambrose would certainly factor into a Triple Threat involving his Shield brothers.

Particularly given that WWE has reunited The Shield, it’s hard to imagine a WrestleMania world title match that involves Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, and no Dean Ambrose.

That’s not to say that Ambrose, too, would be added to the match. Given the way he has been booked recently, and particularly if he really is making his way out of the company in the next month or so, it’s hard to see him factoring in as a challenger.

However, that doesn’t me can’t be involved in a storyline. Do we get guest referee Ambrose, whom no one knows if they can trust? Or might Ambrose fall victim to a particularly heinous attack by Brock Lesnar to build heat going into ‘Mania?

One way or another, the Lunatic Fringe would almost certainly be a consideration if Reigns is added to the Universal Championship match.

#3 Roman Reigns wins

Roman Reigns would quickly become the favorite to win the Universal Championship

One of the awkward truths of WWE’s attempts to get Roman Reigns over as the face of the company is that at least a vocal minority, and arguably a majority of the fans have typically not been behind them as at least their top choice for that role.

When Reigns announced that he needed to step away from WWE to battle leukemia, fans of all stripes rallied behind him the way they only tend to do when there’s a real-life issue at stake.

While Reigns may not be everyone’s favorite, we’ve arrived at a rare moment when the fans are few and far between that wouldn’t be happy to see him win the Universal title, and thus return to the throne, notching a win for not only himself or all of WWE, but hope over cancer.

For Reigns to lose his first title shot back, especially at a high profile show as WrestleMania, would be a big misstep. If he’s in this match, WWE will likely make the most of it by getting the title back over his shoulder.

#2 Seth Rollins takes the fall

Seth Rollins may take the fall to protect Brock Lesnar (and Roman Reigns).

Brock Lesnar is not undefeated since returning to WWE in 2012, but his defeats are few and largely protected.

His first two losses, to John Cena and Triple H, were both in no DQ situations in which the stipulation figured prominently into finishing him off.

Later, it was only through Money in the Bank shenanigans that he dropped the WWE Championship to Seth Rollins, only in a carefully constructed swerve that he lost a match to The Undertaker, and only with a significant distraction that he dropped the Universal title to Roman Reigns at SummerSlam 2018.

It’s possible that Lesnar could take a fall, conceivably on his way out of WWE. However, there’s enough invested in the Beast Incarnate, and projecting him as WWE’s ultimate monster heel that, if WWE has an out, it will likely take it.

In a three-way match, the odds are Seth Rollins would take the fall, and we would likely as not see Lesnar get a one on one rematch with Lesnar in the too distant future to blow off their rivalry for good.

#1 Seth Rollins is out

It's possible Reigns is not only added to the match but replaces an injured Rollins

It is possible that Roman Reigns gets inserted into the Universal Championship match, not in the context of a Triple Threat Match, but rather because he’s outright replacing Seth Rollins.

This isn’t a choice WWE would take lightly. Rollins is an elite performer and arguably Raw’s MVP over the last year, Moreover, he has been open about how much he cares about working WrestleMania, and taking that opportunity from him after winning the Royal Rumble would be a huge blow.

However, there are also reports that Rollins is dealing with back issues and that it’s those injuries and wanting him to heal fully for WrestleMania that have seen him mostly missing from in-ring action since winning the Rumble.

In a worst case scenario of Rollins being too hurt to work Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania, WWE may have had a gift fall into their laps in Reigns, the guy who never lost the title, coming back just in time to fill the spot.

While this isn’t exactly an appealing option, it would have the added benefit of setting up Rollins as the rightful challenger to Reigns or Lesnar in the near future.