Roman Reigns Checks Adverse For COVID, Will Deal with Brock Lesnar On Smackdown

Roman Reigns is again … the Common champion is formally freed from COVID and is returning to Smackdown Friday night time — the place he is anticipated to confront the newly topped WWE champion Brock Lesnar — TMZ Sports activities has discovered.

After all, Reigns and Lesnar have been speculated to conflict at WWE’s ‘Day 1’ pay-per-view on New 12 months’s Day in Atlanta … however that did not occur after Reigns examined optimistic for COVID-19, forcing the corporate to go in a distinct route.

Lesnar ended up profitable the title that night time in a Deadly 5-way match … defeating WWE superstars Seth Rollins, Bobby Lashley, Kevin Owens, and Massive E — the reigning champion on the time.

On a latest Monday Evening Uncooked, Brock — flanked by supervisor Paul Heyman — had some fairly robust phrases for the Samoan celebrity.

“Earlier than we get this occasion began tonight,” Lesnar mentioned, “I would like to offer an enormous shoutout to my good buddy, Roman Reigns, who’s in all probability sitting at dwelling greater than probably, tuned into Monday Evening Uncooked, tuned into the brand new WWE heavyweight champion. The true champion. Brock Lesnar.”

“Get nicely quickly, buddy,” Lesnar sarcastically added.”

Reigns and Lesnar have been feuding for years … preventing a complete of seven instances of their storied careers. They’ve had 4 singles matches, 2 triple threats, and 1 deadly 4-way match … with every man profitable 3 matches apiece.