[SPOILER] WWE Title Tourament

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The tournament to crown a new WWE World Heavyweight Champion will begin tonight.

The title was vacated last week after the previous champion Seth Rollins suffered a torn ACL. The WWE quickly announced that there would be a one-night tournament to decide a new champion, just like at Survivor Series 1998. However, the tournament will happen throughout the week.

It is not clear how many tournament matches will actually feature on this year's pay-per-view, but the first of the first round matches will begin tonight. Roman Reigns was originally supposed to challenge for the title at the show, but as you can see, he has not received any special treatment.

It is worth noting that no members of the Brothers of Destruction or the Wyatt Family are featured in the tournament. There had been speculation that the two teams would be facing off in a traditional Survivor Series style elimination match. With this detail, we can maybe expect that match to be booked tonight. There had been conflicting rumours about whether this would be a 4 vs 2 handicap match, or if the BoD would have 2 partners.

We will know after Raw tonight if the quarter finals will be on SmackDown, or included at Survivor Series.

First Round matches:

Big Show vs Roman Reigns

Cesaro vs Sheamus

Alberto Del Rio vs Stardust

Kalisto vs Ryback

Kevin Owens vs Titus O'Neil

King Barrett vs Neville

Dolph Ziggler vs The Miz

Dean Ambrose vs Tyler Breeze

Quarter Finals:

Big Show/Reigns vs Cesaro/Sheamus

Del Rio/Stardust vs Kalisto/Ryback

Owens/O'Neil vs Barrett/Neville

Ziggler/Miz vs Ambrose/Breeze

A photo emerged online showing two alternated first round matches. It is not known if the photo was a hoax, or if the plans have since changed. The photo suggested that Mark Henry would be in the tournament as Reigns' opponent. It also displayed that Big Show would be facing Del Rio. The winners of these matches would have faced each other in the quarter finals.

UPDATE: The earlier photo has now been confirmed to have been a hoax.
 
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