Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar earned a WrestleMania title match, but neither walked away with the championship.
Seth Rollins is the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion, despite not being booked in the main event. He lost earlier in the night at WrestleMania, but cashed in his Money in the Bank contract after Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns had beaten each other to a pulp, and capitalized to win the title.
In a notable departure from modern WWE, both Reigns and Lesnar bled quite a bit, and not because of any kind of gimmick. They hit each other in the head, a lot, for real. It led to them both bleeding out of their heads, a lot, for real.
Lesnar captured the title at SummerSlam, beating John Cena in dominant fashion. He defended the title a month later, then went on to beat Cena and Rollins at the Royal Rumble to ensure that he'd be the defending champion at WrestleMania.
The road to WrestleMania was a bit tougher for Reigns. He won the Royal Rumble, but was coerced into putting his title shot on the line against Daniel Bryan at WWE Fastlane. Their match was an excellent one and he prevailed, setting up this title match.
As an added wrinkle to this match, Lesnar announced that he'd re-signed with WWE on Tuesday. Before that, it was assumed that Reigns would win, so that injected some drama back into this match.
Reigns sprinted at Lesnar to start the fight, trying to push the pace, and he paid for it. Lesnar hit him with a German suplex, than an instant F-5, and didn't even care to go for the pin. He just stood in the corner, feeling his bloody cheek, and staring at Reigns with disdain.
He let Reigns get up and fight back. The results were predictable. Reigns got a few shots in, then ate another German suplex in short order. Then another. Then Lesnar yelled 'SUPLEX CITY, B---' at the camera. This repeated for a while -- Reigns got to fight back, Lesnar suplexed him to stop his momentum.
After spending 10 minutes systematically beating the heck out of Reigns, he finally decided to put him out of his misery with an F-5 and a pin. But Reigns kicked out, and Lesnar popped up laughing. Then he decided to take off his MMA gloves and go bare knuckle. He punched Reigns, hit another German suplex, a third F-5. Again, Reigns kicked out.
Once he recovered, Reigns shoved Lesnar's head into the ring post, which caused him to start bleeding. He barely avoided a countout, then ate three Superman punches once he got up, and it took all three to get him down. Then Reigns hit two -- TWO! -- back-to-back spears, and Lesnar kicked out.
Unsurprisingly, this got Reigns real mad. He went for another Superman punch, but got caught, and Lesnar hit another F-5. But Lesnar couldn't cover, and Rollins ran down to the ring to cash in his Money In The Bank contract with both men down, starting a triple threat match.
With Reigns out of the ring, Rollins curb stomped Lesnar, then went for a second, but Reigns ran in and speared Lesnar before he had a chance. But Rollins outsmarted both of them, curb stomped Reigns, and pinned him to win the title.
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