WWE has issued a storyline update about what happened to Roman Reigns on Tuesday's night's
SmackDown Live. Apparently, the lighting grids that nearly fell on The Big Dog were caused by a forklift driver error but common sense says that someone who has an issue with Reigns was the one in the driver's seat!
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter claims that this entire thing is meant to set up a match between Reigns and Daniel Bryan at
SummerSlam but time will tell on that front.
Here's WWE.com's official statement about what happened:
In the final moments of this week’s SmackDown LIVE, Roman Reigns was intending to make a SummerSlam challenge from the backstage area, but The Big Dog just barely evaded sheer catastrophe when tons of steel beams came plummeting toward him. A preliminary investigation has found the incident Tuesday night involving Roman Reigns was caused by a forklift backstage carrying lighting grids that were not properly secured.
Update to story – 10:40 a.m. ET
It has now been determined that the incident in question was specifically caused by a forklift driver error.
Check back with WWE.com for more details as they become available.