Spoiler: Major Returning WWE Star Set For HUGE SummerSlam 2021 Match
Who's set to challenge for the WWE Title at WWE SummerSlam 2021?
The consistently reliable scoopsters over at Fightful Select broke some big news overnight: Goldberg is scheduled to return to WWE and challenge Bobby Lashley for the WWE Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam 2021.
That was the plan "as of today," wrote Sean Ross Sapp.
It's not quite the big dream match Lashley has long held - that would be a big fight opposite Brock Lesnar - but it's a show of faith in Lashley, all the same. He is scheduled to defend the title against Kofi Kingston at Sunday's Money In The Bank pay-per-view in a match Kofi's superb work has done well to plunge into a shred of doubt. This news would appear to confirm that Kofi has mastered the art of the anti-job face.
In addition to helping WWE with the self-imposed curfew - WWE has promised fans a definitive endpoint to allow them to make the Manny Pacquiao vs. Errol Spence Jr. fight down the road - this presumably short match represents another chance for Goldberg to redeem himself. He has tainted his aura (if not his drawing power) by entering dismal efforts opposite The Undertaker and The Fiend in recent years.
A short, explosive spear-fest not too dissimilar to the excellent WrestleMania 33 sprint would do said aura no harm.