Brock Lesnar won the WWE Championship at Day 1 – just hours after Universal Champion Roman Reigns was pulled from the show for Covid-19.
Lesnar had been due to meet Reigns for the Tribal Chief’s title in the likely main event of WWE’s first big show of the year.
Those plans had been thrown into chaos after the company confirmed Reigns’ absence – swiftly re-writing the show to include Lesnar in the WWE title bout instead.
“I yearn to perform tonight at #WWEDay1 to defend my Universal Championship,” Tweeted Reigns, who had also been absent from live events in the build-up to Day 1.