It was one of the worst-kept secrets in sports. Everyone assumed that an upstart Roman Reigns would be challenging Bray Wyatt for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania. But if there's one thing that Vince McMahon hates, it's predictability in his product. News of a shakeup in the WrestleMania matches first broke from Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. Meltzer said that a planned match between Reigns and Wyatt had been scratched in favor of a new match up between Reigns and Goldberg. At the time, Meltzer qualified his reporting with the caveat that he wasn't 100% sure Goldberg would win his match at Super Showdown.
But win he did. The Fiend went down to the 53-year-old Goldberg in spectacular fashion, losing his Universal Championship belt and setting up an all-but-certain showdown with John Cena in WrestleMania 36. Given Roman Reigns' capable drubbing of King Corbin in a steel cage match earlier in the night, it seems he will be the anointed challenger for Goldberg's title next month.
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