Bengaluru, October 30: Rumours of John Cena not wanting to compete at Crown Jewel were doing he rounds for the past couple of weeks and on this week's Raw, we received confirmation of the same.
The vignette of the WWE World Cup tournament no longer features the Cenation Leader. We also got an official update from the acting general manager of the show regarding this big alteration in the lineup.
Bobby Lashley was announced as Cena's replacement and that was pretty much expected. He featured in a match against Finn Balor which the he won via disqualification. Lio Rush interfered to initiate a two-on-one attack on Balor. Lashley dominated the rest of the part by mauling the leader of the Balor Club, thereafter.
Baron Corbin was happy to see the dominating version of Bobby Lashley and he rewarded him with the World Cup opportunity. The Dominator was revealed as the replacement of John Cena at the WWE World Cup tournament. It was a smart storyline process to sideline the marquee name from the Saudi Arabia show which takes place this Friday night.
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One of the names from WWE Raw will face off one of the names from Smackdown roster at the finale of the world cup tournament. All the matches will air live on the WWE Network this Friday night. The next PPV event on the same platform will be Survivor Series on November 18 and one of the mega matches for the PPV was also disclosed on WWE Raw last night.