WWE WrestleMania 35 Rebook: No Brock Lesnar, But A Shield Triple Threat
By Tom Colohue
3. Dean Ambrose vs Seth Rollins vs Roman Reigns
Universal Championship Match
Yes, that’s right, Brock Lesnar does not feature at all in my rebooked WWE WrestleMania 35.
To be clear, I am not going to rebook cancer. I don’t have that power and I have no will to do so. That said, I am going to need to get quite inventive here with the storytelling but I think we can all agree that one more Shield triple threat on the grandest stage of them all is a fitting way to welcome back Roman Reigns and to send off Dean Ambrose.
We begin at SummerSlam, where everything goes exactly as it did. Roman Reigns spears Brock Lesnar and captures the Universal championship for the first time, freeing us of what had been a historic championship reign of boredom, confusion and fury that was Brock Lesnar’s reign.
Everything else, up to and including the announcement of Roman Reigns’ cancer battle, plays out exactly the same. The only difference is that Brock Lesnar does not feature at all. Roman still leaves the WWE on hiatus. Dean Ambrose still captures the tag titles with Seth Rollins and then turns on Rollins immediately. All of this still happens, but at Crown Jewel, the vacant Universal title is competed for by Braun Strowman, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose.
The winner of that match? Dean Ambrose.
Ambrose, now as a heel, also has a title. That should strengthen his heel run. In addition, he doesn’t feud with Rollins for the Intercontinental title at all, instead costing Rollins that title and feuding with Finn Balor instead. Ambrose keeps picking up wins. He keeps mentioning Roman, and how Seth betrayed The Shield first. The personality is the same; in absence of Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose stops believing in brotherhood.
At the Royal Rumble, Seth Rollins wins and sets a date with Dean Ambrose for the Universal championship at WrestleMania. Ambrose congratulates him, honestly. It’s the match that Dean Ambrose wanted. At the same time, Ambrose declares openly that he is leaving the WWE. He is taking the title with him and he is ending Seth Rollins’ career on the way out by breaking both his knees this time.
Enter the story, the returning Roman Reigns. Having never lost the title, he requests that Seth Rollins step aside, allowing Roman to face his lost brother. A deal is made whereby Roman will face Ambrose at Fast Lane, meaning that WrestleMania can be Roman vs Rollins. Ambrose, however, is wily. He gets himself disqualified using weapons, seriously injuring Reigns in the process and causing Rollins to come out and drive him away.
Eager for another shot, Reigns challenge Ambrose at WrestleMania, this time no disqualification. Ambrose accepts. Rollins does not. Rollins has earned his shot and Roman can’t jump the queue. And so it comes to pass. Ambrose vs Rollins vs Reigns for the Universal championship at WrestleMania.
One final war.
Goodbye Hounds of Justice.