It has been a busy 24 hours news wise for the WWE Raw brand.
Spoilers for WWE Raw August 22, 2016 with Summerslam 2016 Fallout!
To get you caught up on the news for the WWE Raw brand:
- At Summerslam 2016 Finn Balor, as the Demon King, beat Seth Rollins to become WWE Raw’s first WWE Universal Champion.
- WWE Raw unveiled the “inverted” WWE Universal Championship belt which has implications for WWE Smackdown’s World Championship title.
- A reforming of the Bullet Club as the Balor Club was teased for WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown Live at Summerslam 2016.
- News started to break that Finn Balor had been injured by Seth Rollins at Summerslam 2016.
- WWE confirmed that Balor was injured by Rollins during their WWE Universal Championship match and that Balor was forced to relinquish the title.
This meant this on the WWE.com website…
…changed to this.
Now you’re caught up on the whirlwind of the last 24 hours for WWE Raw and specifically Finn Balor and the WWE Universal Championship.
On tonight’s Raw, it was announced that the winners of four matches on tonight’s August 22, 2016 Raw would determine who would fight in a fatal four-way at next week’s August 29, 2016 WWE Raw.
- First Match: Sami Zayn vs Seth Rollins. Winner is “WWE Superstar killer” Seth Rollins.
- Second Match: Neville vs. Kevin Owens. Winner is KO Kevin Owens.
- Third Match: Rusev vs. Big Cass with Enzo at ringside. Winner is Big Cass.
- Fourth Match: Chris Jericho vs. Roman Reigns. Winner is Roman Reigns.
All four of these winners are part of a fatal four way on next week’s WWE Raw to crown a new, and the second only, WWE Universal Champion.