Note On Roman Reigns’ WrestleMania Plans & WWE Return Status

With Drew McIntyre dethroning Cody Rhodes as Undisputed WWE Champion this past Friday on SmackDown, things have seemingly become intriguing as we head into the WrestleMania season.

Many fans have been wondering if this will lead to a change of plans, considering Rhodes was seemingly set to face Roman Reigns in their trilogy match at The Show of Shows in Las Vegas this April.

While there are a lot of moving parts, Dave Meltzer believes that Cody Rhodes vs. Roman Reigns III will still likely happen at WrestleMania 42, but he is unsure if the Undisputed WWE Championship will be in play. In what admittedly looks like an unlikely event of them not facing each other, Meltzer wondered if The American Nightmare would face Brock Lesnar in that case.

“At some point, I mean, Roman Reigns is going to have to be in the mix for a big match at WrestleMania, probably with Cody. I don’t think… I mean, I’ll find out, but I don’t think they’re going to change Roman Reigns and Cody. It could be a non-title match, or they could… I mean, they could do Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre. It’s possible. But after all this, would Cody then be kind of like out? Or I suppose they could put Cody with Brock Lesnar, just to do it…to have a match. It remains to be seen how they’re going to do it, if this is just a detour [with McIntyre],” Meltzer said on Wrestling Observer Radio.

Roman has been away from WWE TV since Survivor Series: WarGames, where the creative team heavily teased a third match between him and Cody. On his return status, Meltzer said that a mistake in a TV guide advertisement from the company indicates that the OTC could soon make a comeback.

“Roman Reigns is going to be—he should be back pretty soon. I saw—what I think happened is whoever’s in charge for WWE for sending that sent the ‘Raw’ one instead of the ‘SmackDown’ one, because it said how Maxxine Dupri tries to recover from her loss to Becky Lynch, and Roman Reigns returns. So I don’t know if that’s this Monday’s show or next Monday’s show, but I thought that was pretty interesting.” [H/T: Wrestling Inc.]

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