• The original plan in the Raw women’s title storyline was for Charlotte to hold onto the title until WrestleMania at which point it would culminate with Bayley finally winning it. However, these plans were changed when the creative team felt that they needed “more ups and downs” in the story to transition from Royal Rumble to WrestleMania and so they went ahead and did the title change earlier.

  • As far as Brock Lesnar goes, as noted before, he is not scheduled to defend his Universal Title at WWE Payback on 4/30 but his first title defense is expected to be against Braun Strowman. It will either be at the 6/4 Extreme Rules show or the 7/9 Bad Blood.

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