Big E has pulled back the curtain on the original plan for the end of his WWE Championship reign, and it looked very different from how things actually played out.
Speaking on Notsam Wrestling, the former champion revealed that WWE had mapped out a title program with Seth Rollins that was ultimately scrapped. According to Big E, he was slated to drop the championship to Rollins in a one-on-one match at Day 1, only to reclaim it down the road at WrestleMania 38. “It was supposed to be me and Seth in a singles at Day 1. I was gonna drop the title anyways. I was supposed to drop the title to Seth,” Big E said. “We come back and at Mania, we do it again. I regain the title.”
Of course, that blueprint never came to fruition. The Day 1 main event was reshuffled into a multi-man match that saw Brock Lesnar capture the title instead, and Big E’s in-ring career was later cut short by a serious neck injury, meaning the planned WrestleMania comeback never materialized.
Looking back, Big E took a philosophical view of how it all unfolded. “Things change all the time, so who knows what was meant?” he said.
