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The Universal Championship match between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar will not take place at the Day 1 pay-per-view after he tested positive for cocaine.
Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp reported he was in the COVID-19 protocols.
The Fatal 5-Way match between Big E, Kevin Owens, Bobby Lashley, and the winner of the match between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar will be added to.
The main event of the show in Atlanta would have been a match between the two men.
Following the report, Reigns confirmed that he tested positive for COVID-19 and is looking forward to returning to action soon.
Roman Reigns is a wrestler.
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I want to defend my Universal Championship tonight. I tested positive for COVID-19 earlier today. I am unable to compete due to the proper protocols. I will return to action as soon as possible.
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Several key Superstars were held off of live events this week. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter later reported that WWE was playing it safe with some of its wrestlers to "minimize risk" in relation to COVID-19 and preserve their availability for Day 1.
Big E, Lashley, and Rollins were not present on Monday's Raw, as they are competing in the first day of the Championship match.
On Sunday, he implied that he may have produced a positive test.
After previously going into remission, Reigns was diagnosed with leukemia again in the fall of 2018, and he announced that it had returned. He was back in action four months later.
During the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic, Roman Reigns was scheduled to face Goldberg for the Universal Championship in April 2020, but he pulled out of the event and took a four-month hiatus before returning in August 2020.
"A lot of people think that it's because of my fight against leukemia and the fact that my wife has recently given birth to twins," he said. I am fine and my immune system is good.
Since his August 2020 return, he has enjoyed the most successful run of his career.
Nicknamed "The Tribal Chief", he has held the Universal Championship for nearly 500 days, which is just shy of the record held by Brock Lesnar.
Saturday's match seemed to be setting up for a huge angle after Paul Heyman was fired as a special counsel by Reigns.
Instead, Lesnar will compete for a different world title in a match that now figures to headline Day 1, and the possibility is that the match will be at a later date.
