According to sources, WWE knew ahead of the WWE Money in the Bank pay-per-view about Roman Reigns’ Wellness violation and that is obviously the real reason they took the title off of him. WWE announced earlier today (Tuesday) that Reigns has been suspended for his first violation of the Wellness Policy. As noted, the company knew before the pay-per-view, meaning that they knew Reigns was going to be suspended for thirty days before they announced the Battleground triple threat main event last night on RAW.
There are thirty-three days until Battleground, meaning that Reigns will be off suspension and could still compete in the World Heavyweight Championship match against Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose. Reigns will miss the WWE Draft on July 19th. The company had the option to run some sort of suspension angle on Monday night to write him off of television but chose not to for unknown reasons as of this writing. Reigns will miss all episodes of RAW and SmackDown before Battleground due to the suspension.
At this point considering that they announced the match after they knew about the violation, it appears as if the main event of WWE Battleground will go forward as announced last night.
As you’d imagine, there are some people “rolling their eyes” at the suspension and booking, with some saying that Roman is Vince McMahon’s “teachers pet” and it sets a double standard for some of the lower & mid-card talents. One source said, “If it was anyone else besides Cena and maybe Seth, do you think it would have gone down like that?.”
