10 Best "Everything You Know Is A Lie" Moments In Wrestling

8. Roman Reigns Wrecks Everyone And Leaves

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SummerSlam 2020 was WWE's first Premium Live Event to take place in the ThunderDome, but marked the end of a truly torrid time for the Universal Championship.

Braun Strowman's run had been far from a total disaster considering the circumstances, but his post-WrestleMania series with Bray Wyatt posited turkey after turkey in matches and segments. WWE were so locked in to the thought process that more was more when it came to their pandemic cinematic output that the two were thrown into a literal deep end with a Swamp Fight, forced to fight over sheep mask lore in an empty Performance Center, and battle one last time, Fiend Vs Monster, in WWE's new technological monstrosity.

Enter - thank f*ck - Roman Reigns.

Paying off the "You'll Never See It Coming" subtitle, 'The Big Dog' returned and monstered the pair of them after The Fiend had won his second Universal strap. He secured the Championship himself exactly one week later at a hastily-arranged Payback card seemingly dropped in the diary for that very purpose.

That nobody remotely protested the absurdity of such a thing happening in a sporting simulation was so telling. For the first time since the pandemic broke everything, fans had a Champion that actually felt like one, rendering everything since his exit as yet more fever dream silliness.

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