6 Ups And 6 Downs For WWE Day 1

4. Making Up For Lost Match

There’s an old adage in wrestling that if your card gets drastically changed, you have to do something big to send fans home happy.

In the case of Day 1, a WWE Universal Championship match between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar got scrubbed because Roman tested positive for COVID. That could have meant that Lesnar wasn’t wrestling at the PPV or got a lesser opponent, but instead, Brock was inserted into the WWE Championship fatal four-way match.

That bout was an insane sprint, a less-than-10-minute match that saw all five men work at an accelerated clip, throwing each other around with reckless abandon and hitting their best shot on everyone.

And of course, we got a title change, which is almost always something that pops a live crowd, especially a world title. It’s just something that doesn’t happen very often, so it means something special to the fans. It quite possibly was a way to make up for losing out on the Universal Championship match.