WWEhas seen a myriad of changes ever since Vince McMahon was canned under dubious circumstances and there’ve been quite a lot of changes made under Triple H, the new head of creative for the whole show. The latest shake up to hit the sport is the rumor that Braun Strowman, the former WWE Universal Champion is returning to WWE.
This report, sure to whet the appetites of wrestling fans everywhere,comes from the team over at PWInsider.com, who are among the first to break the story of the champ’s return to the ring, confirmed from multipleWWEsources who say Strowman will appear at Monday’sWWE Rawin Kansas City.
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When he first started out, Strowman was being groomed for stardom by Vince McMahan himself in the way, way back of 2013, trying to sculpt another star champion to line thehallowed halls of theWWE. Enter Braun Strowman (real name Adam Scherr), a former strongman competition who first wrestled with the Wyatt Family and was managed right down to the ground. The guy couldn’t sell for anyone without getting say-so from the top down, and the same went for what kind of bumps he was allowed to take, all as part of the process of making the next megastar.
Getting drafted toWWE Rawin 2016, Strowman’s job for audiences became a monster singles competitor, taking on one, two, three guys at once and dusting them all during the course of a match. A longstanding feud with Roman Reigns developed but it was WWE’s strange pulling away that almost felt like a betrayal. He’d take homethe Money in the Bankbriefcase and become the big winner of the first GreatestRoyal Rumble, but whenever the time came for Strowman to claim the title in a scheduled match, word from management would always shift the poor guy around.
In 2019 Strowman joined theSmackdownroster, and captured the Universal titleatWrestlemania 36—the one held during the pandemic—where Goldberg acted as a last-second fill-in for the previously scheduled Roman Reigns. Another feud began, pitting Strowman against Bray Wyatt who Strowman would lose to atSummerslam 2020where Reigns reappeared and beat them both, cementing his place at the top ofSmackdown. Not doing much with his release—Strowman' independent wrestling gigs have been few and far between—returning home to theWWEfor the upcomingRawin Kansas City makes perfect sense.
