Let us take a look at the top 8 WWE News & Professional Wrestling stories of the hour:
8. Kevin Owens Becomes The Universal Champion
During the main event of this week’s Raw, Kevin Owens became the new Universal Champion. Earlier on Raw, the match was turned into a Fatal-4 Way Elimination Match. Following are the order of eliminations:
– Big Cass
– Roman Reigns
– Seth Rollins
Kevin Owens eliminated Big Cass first. During the match, 14 time World Champion Triple H made his return to WWE programming and delivered a Pedigree to Roman Reigns and Rollins pins Reigns. Then during the ending moments of the match, Triple H turned on Rollins and hit him with a Pedigree and allowed Owens to pick up the win and become the second ever Universal Champion.
WHAT THE?! @TripleH just showed up to #Pedigree @WWERomanReigns! #RAW #UniversalChampionship pic.twitter.com/Qcd0jUvGPa
— WWE (@WWE) August 30, 2016
What did @TripleH just do?! @WWERollins gets hit with a #Pedigree leading to a NEW #UniversalChampion! #RAW pic.twitter.com/0v0TtBXA2q
— WWE Universe (@WWEUniverse) August 30, 2016
We have a NEWWWWWWW @WWE #UniversalChampion, and it's @FightOwensFight! #RAW pic.twitter.com/1DRc0ftJJ2
— WWE Universe (@WWEUniverse) August 30, 2016
Speaking of Raw, the following matches were taped before the show for this week’s WWE Superstars:
– The Golden Truth vs. The Shining Stars
– United States Champion Rusev vs. Jack Swagger