by Hanley! » Jun 02, '18, 6:39 pm
Who?
Rollins.
When?
As soon as possible.
Only one person benefits from Lesnar as champion at this point, and it's Lesnar himself. As champion, his absence is making the show worse. And frankly it doesn't improve all that much when he shows up. He's worn out his welcome as a character and if I never saw him in the ring again, it wouldn't upset me.
Leaving the title on him serves no purpose. The latest he should be losing the belt is Summerslam, keeping it past that would be beyond ridiculous. But if they could have him lose it earlier than that, on Raw, even better. There's no reason to wait. With their current model, they can't even use a Lesnar title defense to boost a buy rate, but they could use it to pop a rating. And a 400+ day title reign ending on Raw would help to reinvigorate the show.
There are only two faces on Raw who are over enough to win the title from Lesnar right now. One is Strowman, and one is Rollins. Of the two, Rollins is the right choice for a number of reasons. First of all, he's more over right now. Since the start of the year, Rollins has heated up while Strowman has cooled down a little. Secondly, Strowman has already challenged Lesnar a couple of times this past year. And finally, given how long Lesnar's reign has been, the next champion should be someone completely different. Someone who's going to have different kinds of title matches. Strowman isn't that guy.
If you wanted to unify the world titles (which I would be in favour of, but holy fuck that would officially cement the Universal championship as the worst world title in wrestling history) then Styles would be a perfect candidate to take the belt from Brock also. But I don't think they're going to merge the belts this soon. So Rollins should be the guy.