Crown Jewel Result: Who Is The New Universal Champion?

In one of the most heartbreaking stories of recent memory, Roman Reigns was forced to vacate the Universal Championship due to a return of leukemia. While this was tragic and disappointing for the WWE Universe, the show must go on.

Therefore, a new champion was to be crowned at the Crown Jewel event earlier today. But who was the victor?

Brock Lesnar defeated Braun Strowman in quick fashion to become the new Universal Champion. This will be The Beast’s third reign with the title.

You can see a clip from the match below:

Brock Lesnar decimates Braun Stroman with repeated F5s: WWE Crown Jewel 2018 (WWE Network Exclusive)

From WWE.com:

Paul Heyman warned the WWE Universe that he was spoiling the Universal Championship Match at WWE Crown Jewel when he declared Brock Lesnar would once again be the champion.

Heyman was right. In a shocking turn of events, The Beast put Braun Strowman down with five F-5s to begin his second Universal Championship reign.

However, the match was not without controversy. Before the bell, Acting Raw General Manager Baron Corbin smashed The Monster Among Men with the title that had been made vacant weeks earlier after Roman Reigns needed to relinquish it due to illness. This allowed Lesnar to hit his first F-5. Strowman kicked out of that one, sending The Beast into a rage.

Lesnar would deliver three more F-5s to his titanic opponent, one of which sent Strowman crashing to the arena floor. Strowman kicked out of all of those, as well. It was a fifth F-5, however, that proved to be Strowman’s undoing, as The Beast put him down for the three count to once again claim the Universal Championship as his own.

Editor’s Opinion:

I will be writing more about this later, but this result tells me one thing: Vince McMahon does not believe that Raw has a superstar that can be seen as the face of the company.

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