• Backstage News On Roman Reigns Defeating Cody Rhodes
Roman Reigns defeated Cody Rhodes in the main event of WrestleMania 39 Sunday to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship to continue his 945-day reign.
Solo Sikoa interfered, but the referee sent him to the back. The Usos interfered, but Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn took them out.
In the end, Paul Heyman distracted the referee, which led to Solo coming back to deliver the Samoan Spike to Cody.
The Tribal Chief then hit his momentum Spear on The American Nightmare to pick up the win.
When Vince was still in charge of creative last year, there were no plans for Roman to drop the Title.
According to Fightful Select, people backstage in WWE began defending the idea of Roman retaining the Undisputed Title and continuing his reign past WrestleMania in the last few weeks, which has begun speculation that Vince is making creative decisions again:
“There were people within WWE who began to defend the idea of Roman Reigns winning this past week, and there were some murmurs that he would win last week.
Now, we’ve confirmed that the plan for Reigns to emerge victorious was set and several people were aware of it several weeks ago. We’re not told when the talent were informed.”
The interference finish wasn’t decided until the day of the show.
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• Old School Wrestling Veteran Celebrates His Birthday
Old School ECW/WCW/WWF/WWE Veteran Lance Storm (Real name: Lance Evers) celebrates his 54th birthday today.
Lance Storm & Chris Jericho were known as The Thrillseekers in Jim Cornette’s Smoky Mountain Wrestling during the mid-90s, before Storm went to Europe & Japan and eventually ended up in Paul Heyman’s Extreme Championship Wrestling, where he had a successful run from 1997 till he left for Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling in 2000.
He went on to become the leader of Team Canada in WCW and later joined the World Wrestling Federation as part of the infamous WCW/ECW Invasion storyline.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANCE STORM!
