Predicting The Next 10 First Time Universal Champions

When you think about the fact that the Universal Title has been a part of Raw for over two years, it's rather shocking that there has only been five champions in that space of time. The main reason for that, of course, was down to the fact that part-timer Brock Lesnar took the belt off fellow part-timer Goldberg and subsequently embarked on a painfully long 504-day title reign which saw the championship taken off TV for long periods at a time.

Roman Reigns' victory over 'The Beast' at SummerSlam freed the title from its cage, once again returning it to the full-time roster. With Lesnar's title reign in the past, the red brand's premiere championship is once again free to be defended whenever and wherever the new champion chooses it to be - opening it up to a whole new set of superstars for the first time in over a year.

This new era will eventually bring a horde of new first-time champions with it, as the vast majority of the Raw roster has yet to actually hold the gold - but which of the red brand's talented superstars will claim their first Universal Championship in the near-future?

Braun Strowman has been pushed so hard as of late that it's hard to imagine him anywhere but the main event scene. His journey to the top may have been stunted by his lacklustre Money In The Bank contract cash-in against Roman Reigns inside Hell in a Cell, but that doesn't mean that he's planning on moving out of the title picture anytime soon.

Last year, 'The Monster Among Men' was positioned as the one man, aside from Brock Lesnar, who had Reigns' number. Though he never got the chance to prove that at Hell In A Cell because of Lesnar's interference, it's simply an inevitability at this point. Had WWE intended for Strowman to move out of the championship storyline, Reigns would have defeated him cleanly then and there.

Strowman simply can't become champion until he gets his hands on the thorn in his side that is Lesnar, and he will finally get the chance to do that when he faces 'The Beast' and Reigns in a Triple Threat match at WWE Crown Jewel.

Whether or not he wins the gold there remains to be seen, but one way or another, the Universal Championship is going to "get these hands" in the very near future.