Brock Lesnar

Rather than wait for his shot at regaining another world championship, Lesnar then went on to earn the WWE championship by winning the Elimination Chamber match ...

* Raw Tag Team Championship: RK-Bro (c) vs. Liv for Brutality vs. Street Profits vs.

Reigns bested Brock Lesnar in the main event on Sunday night for his first win over the now former champion at WrestleMania.

Reigns hit Lesnar with a low blow and Heyman gave him the universal championship, which Reigns used to hit Lesnar and score a two count. McAfee hit one of his trademark spots, landing on his feet on a backflip off the top rope before leaping back to the top rope and hitting Theory with a superplex. Lesnar went for another F-5 only for Reigns to slide out, shoving Lesnar into the ropes and allowing Reigns to hit one final spear for the finish. The finish was pretty sudden and the match was a bit lacking in the overall drama compared to previous Reigns and Lesnar contests. After the match, McAfee taunted McMahon, leading McMahon to take off his jacket and his shirt, striping to a tanktop and bringing a referee to the ring. Lashley then hit a spear to the back and another spear from the front to score the pin. Austin Theory: McAfee got off to a hot start with spinning elbows and ranas to keep Theory on the defensive. Edge: Edge took a smug approach to the start of the match, disrespecting Styles before Styles hit a dropkick and several arm drags to get off to a hot start. Zayn used a baking sheet and a crutch to hit Knoxville across the back before pulling out a table from under the ring. Riddle took out Ford with a springboard RKO as Ford was on the top rope and Orton hit Gable with an RKO of his own as Gable came off the top rope, scoring the win. Styles drove Edge into the ring apron with a superplex, nearly resulting in a double count out but Styles hit a springboard 450 when Edge got back in the ring, resulting in a near fall. In the main event, WWE champion Brock Lesnar clashed with Roman Reigns in a bout to unify WWE's top two championships.

This match incorporated elements from prior WrestleMania matches, particularly WrestleMania 31. Similar to the 2015 event from San Jose, Lesnar's gloves were ...

My guess, is that happens by SummerSlam. In the immediate future, however, Bobby Lashley is Reigns’ most-likely opponent following Lashley’s win over Omos. During the WrestleMania main event, Corey Graves referenced Bobby Lashley after Reigns delivered a Spear to Lesnar. Lesnar was the last person who needed a win of this magnitude. Reigns has been built up as an O. P. champion, running through the likes of Edge, Bryan Danielson, Goldberg and John Cena. Lesnar feels like the next logical step in WWE’s quest to cement Reigns as an all-time great, if that hasn’t happened already. Between Heyman, a newly minted “ponytail” Brock (more on that later), and Reigns connecting as an excellent heel, the idea of Reigns vs. In his latest comeback tour, Brock Lesnar certainly put the “beast” in “hypebeast.” Lesnar’s jovial, more playful disposition made him the perfect foil to the brooding, salty and far more serious Roman Reigns. Though many among WWE’s monolithic fanbase swore they never wanted to see this match again, especially at a WrestleMania, WWE has been building that same match for the past eight months and most are here for it. Reigns pinned Lesnar following multiple spears as the match ended, rather suddenly, as Reigns sold a shoulder injury.

In a bout billed as the biggest WrestleMania match of all time, Roman Reigns defeated Brock Lesnar on Sunday in the main event of WrestleMania 38 to unify ...

Listen to Ring Rust Radio for all of the hot wrestling topics. The Beast was added to the Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship and went on to win, which ensured that both the WWE and Universal Championships would be on the line in the main event of WrestleMania 38. In a bout billed as the biggest WrestleMania match of all time, Roman Reigns defeated Brock Lesnar on Sunday in the main event of WrestleMania 38 to unify the Universal and WWE Championships.

Brock Lesnar left WrestleMania without the WWE championship after losing to Roman Reigns in the main event on Sunday night from Dallas.

Considering Lesnar was defeated in the WrestleMania main event, it’s possible that his latest run with WWE has once again come to a close as he typically takes time off following a long stretch of consecutive dates with the company. While Lesnar, ex-UFC champion Ronda Rousey and UFC veteran Shayna Baszler all lost in their matches at WrestleMania, one-time Ultimate Fighter competitor Matt Riddle was victorious in his bout as part of a tag team match alongside Randy Orton earlier in the night. In a reversal late in the match, Lesnar actually caught Reigns in a kimura, which became one of his primary moves after leaving the UFC and rejoining the WWE roster back in 2012.

In a strange twist, when fans look back on WrestleMania 38, they will remember much about it before the main event ever comes to mind...

Maybe some of this is the fault of the otherwise amazing WrestleMania 38 card over both nights for setting the expectation that the main event would keep pace or provide something different. Whatever the reason, it also puts a damper on what's to come. It's pretty unfortunate that WWE derailed both men's divisions and major landmarks like the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber to set this up, only for the 'Mania main event to just slip past the 12-minute mark while feeling downright strange. It fell flat in a lot of ways before the weird finish. It was a subtle, genius moment the referee didn't see that swung the match. It is admittedly tough to tell the difference between Reigns' elite-level selling and something serious, of course.