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Roman Reigns is slated to return to WWE.
The SmackDown champion, who tested positive for COVID-19 before WWE’s “Day 1” pay-per-view this past weekend, is out of protocols and is expected to have a mutual confrontation with Brock Lesnar on Friday’s SmackDown on Fox, The Post has learned.
A formal WWE announcement is expected shortly.
Reigns had been scheduled to face Lesnar at Day 1, the result of a feud between WWE’s two biggest current male stars that has also involved the infamously-conniving manager Paul Heyman. Heyman has been managing Reigns since August of 2020, when the SmackDown title reign began.
In the storyline, Reigns fired Heyman — who had previously been Lesnar’s longstanding manager — this past December, and it is unclear where Heyman’s loyalties will lie going forward.
After Reigns was pulled from Day 1, Lesnar was inserted into the main event fatal five-way for the Raw championship, and wound up pinning incumbent champion Big E for the belt.
With Reigns returning, it should be interesting to see where the story goes with the two respective champions.
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