WWE Rumor Roundup - Backstage concern about Braun Strowman, 30+ positive COVID-19 cases in company, update on Renee Young's condition and more - 26th June 2020

#1. SummerSlam main event match

As revealed by Tom Colohue on the latest edition of the Dropkick DiSKussions podcast, the current plan is to reportedly have Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship as the main event of SummerSlam.

There were rumors about WWE wanting to book Randy Orton in a WWE title programme with McIntyre; however, the company seems to have moved on to resurrecting the Legend Killer persona. The original plan was to have Randy Orton and Edge face each other in a rubber match at SummerSlam, but the Rated-R Superstar's injury led to a significant change of plans.

Tom explained:

Well, there is obviously a lot of change going on at the moment, but to my knowledge, the planned main event for SummerSlam is Drew McIntyre vs. Brock Lesnar.

So that wouldn't need Orton in that feud and would need Orton something to do because the idea was that this would be round three of Edge vs. Orton at SummerSlam. That obviously now cannot be the case. Edge's injury did screw them over quite a bit. It's just unlucky on everybody's part. Paul Heyman did want to go in another direction, but Vince overruled him, and of course, now Paul Heyman isn't there to fight the corner. Orton doesn't seem to be there to work with some of the younger guys. They brought back the legend killer; they needed a legend, and Christian isn't cleared. Big Show it is.