We haven’t seen much of WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar on Monday Night Raw since he defeated A.J. Styles at Survivor Series last month. While Lesnar’s absence from Raw is nothing new, the time off has led to rampant speculation around who Lesnar should face for the title at Royal Rumble on January 28th.
It appears as though WWE is finally going to answer that question on Raw Monday night. WWE announcer Charly Caruso revealed on WWE’s Twitter feed that Braun Strowman will face Kane in Raw’s main event, and the winner of that match will challenge Brock Lesnar at Royal Rumble for Lesnar’s Universal Championship.
BREAKING: @KaneWWE will battle @BraunStrowman on #RAW, with the winner challenging @BrockLesnar for the #UniversalTitle at #RoyalRumble, PLUS @WWERomanReigns defends his #ICTitle against @WWECesaro…and it all happens TONIGHT! pic.twitter.com/3tNb9cijHZ
— WWE (@WWE) December 11, 2017
Braun Stowman and Kane have been feuding over the last several weeks for the rights to be named WWE’s unofficial official monster, so having the two battle for the opportunity to defeat Lesnar and take his Universal Championship at Royal Rumble makes sense.
In addition to announcing that Raw’s main event would determine the next challenger for the Universal Championship, Caruso also told fans that Roman Reigns would be facing Cesaro for Reigns’ Intercontinental Championship.
Cesaro, Sheamus, and Samoa Joe have been fighting various members of The Shield for weeks, with Joe finally aligning himself with The Bar last week on Raw. Samoa Joe interfered in Sheamus and Cesaro’s match with Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins for the Raw Tag Team Title’s last week on Raw, which resulted in The Bar retaining the titles and doing the classic Shield Pose with Samoa Joe in the crowd as Raw went off the air.
