WWE Night of Champions 2023: Roman Reigns’ Title Match and WHC Final announced

Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa are the confirmed challengers who’d go after the undisputed tag titles held by Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. The Bloodline apparently pulled some strings to make this match, official.

After a hiatus of a month, Roman Reigns returned on last night’s SmackDown and told Knoxville, Tennessee to acknowledge him. The Usos, Paul Heyman, and Solo Sikoa were surrounding him as he needed to address some problems.

The Tribal Chief noted in his promo that Owens and Zayn aren’t their problems anymore, but their brothers The Usos are since they lost WrestleMania 39 Night One main event and then the rematch for the tag titles, last week.

Roman also shoved Jimmy in the face. Jimmy was about to attack Roman, but Jey stopped him and apologized to The Tribal Chief. He wanted one more opportunity to bring back the tag titles to The Bloodline.

Roman informed that the tag titles will eventually come back to The Bloodline but not via The Usos. Heyman then declared that Owens and Zayn will rather lose the Tag Team Titles to Sikoa and Reigns at Night Of Champions 2023.

This is actually going down! ????#SmackDown #WWENOC pic.twitter.com/7YnEIPXTF2

— WWE on BT Sport (@btsportwwe) May 13, 2023

In more announcements regarding the upcoming Saudi Arabia premium live event, the finale match lineup for the World Heavyweight Championship has also been confirmed after qualifying matches went down on the latest episode of Smackdown.

In the first qualifier, AJ Styles defeated WWE Hall of Famer Edge and Rey Mysterio in a Triple Threat Match to advance to the semifinal of the World Heavyweight Championship tournament.

This was Edge’s return to television for the first time since WrestleMania 39 and he was the one to digest a clean pin-fall loss in the match. AJ countered a submission hold and delivered a Phenomenal Forearm on him for the pin to win.

In the second qualifier on Smackdown, Bobby Lashley defeated United States Champion Austin Theory and Sheamus in a Triple Threat Match to advance to the semifinal of the World Heavyweight Championship tournament.

Lashley went busted open during the match but he still applied the Hurt Lock on Theory. Sheamus hit The Brogue Kick on Theory after which Lashley sent Sheamus out of the ring and pinned Theory.

In the main event of Smackdown, AJ Styles defeated Bobby Lashley in the semifinal of the World Heavyweight Championship tournament. Lashley went shoulder-first into the ring post as AJ was able to connect with the Phenomenal Forearm for the pin to win.

Following this encounter, Seth Rollins vs. AJ Styles for the World Heavyweight Championship was officially announced for the Finals of this tournament at Night of Champions 2023 which is the second title match to be made official for the event.

It’ll be Seth Rollins vs. AJ Styles to crown the new WWE Heavyweight Champion! ????#SmackDown #WWERAW #WWENOC pic.twitter.com/xCSDEQfdQk

— WWE on BT Sport (@btsportwwe) May 13, 2023

WWE Night of Champions 2023 Premium Live Event will take place on Saturday, May 27, 2023, at the Jeddah Super Dome in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The confirmed match card for the PLE following this week’s Smackdown goes as follows:

– WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament Finale: Seth Rollins vs. AJ Styles

– Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn (c) vs. Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns & Solo Sikoa

– Brock Lesnar vs. Cody Rhodes