Update on next Roman Reigns title defense

[Chris]

Roman Reigns' next match is expected to take place in Saudi Arabia.

In the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer confirmed that Reigns' next match will be at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, November 4. Reigns will be back on WWE television leading into the event.

As expected, the next Reigns match will be 11/4 in Saudi Arabia. He will be back on television in the time leading to that show to promote the match.

It will be three months between Reigns' matches at SummerSlam and Crown Jewel. Reigns wasn't on WWE's Payback pay-per-view this month and also isn't advertised for October's Fastlane event.

Reigns retained the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship against Jey Uso in a Tribal Combat match in the main event of SummerSlam. Jey was on the verge of winning until his twin brother Jimmy cost him the match.

Since then, Jey "quit" SmackDown and joined the Raw roster. WWE has said that SmackDown will receive "trade compensation" for Jey going to Raw.

Jimmy Uso has been trying to get back into The Bloodline in recent weeks. AJ Styles defeated Jimmy on SmackDown last Friday. Following the match, The Judgment Day attacked Styles and threw him back in the ring so Solo Sikoa could give Styles a Samoan Spike. Judgment Day, who have also been trying to recruit Jey Uso, may have been trying to lure Sikoa away from The Bloodline.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/roman-reigns-next-match-expected-to-take-place-at-wwe-crown-jewel

 

[Cwalker]

November is kinda wild

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

Can't lose title if you don't defend it

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Roman is facing me and I'm taking the fall willingly 30 seconds in make sure Reigns gets out of Saudi Arabia in a hot second.

 

[Cwalker]

He gonna pull a Brock and go on first so he can get the hell outta Saudi

 

[Skyefire]

Of course he's wrestling at the Saudi event. WWE always books those shows big.

 

[Chris]

Although the promos where the Bloodline and Heyman talk of Cena as 'the second greatest wrestler of all-time,' with the idea Reigns is the greatest and a play off Cena’s WWE tag line of being the greatest, and Cena also at this point scheduled for Crown Jewel, it was confirmed to us that Reigns vs. Cena is not the match planned for the show.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/roman-reigns-vs-john-cena-not-planned-for-wwe-crown-jewel

 

[Dale]

They're definitely cooking up LA Knight to be one i'd imagine, so maybe AJ is next if they don't go with Cena?

 

[Chris]

Meltzer was thinking Knight at Survivor Series and Cena at Saudi so this correction so soon after tells me someone was like nah Cena ain't doing it

 

[Toilet]

I'm glad it's not Cena, he did that already when he came back last time.

 

[Chris]

I'm glad it's not Cena, he did that already when he came back last time.

Me too, made sense for Saudi so I was already dreading it

 

[Cwalker]

I was definitely thinking it was AJ

 

[Dale]

Survivor Series seems hard to judge right now because we don't know if it's traditional or WarGames.

 

[Toilet]

Jade Cargill to dethrone Roman at Saudi plz.