Roman Reigns was set to challenge Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight championship at Survivor Series, but an injury forced Rollins to vacate the title and Roman without an opponent. According to Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling News Observer via Wrestling Inc, Reigns was scheduled to win the WWE championship at Survivor Series.

"Roman was going to win it at Survivor Series. That was the plan. I figured it, but I didn't know for sure, but, in fact, it is for sure, he was going to win it at Survivor Series, I don't know if he's going to win the tournament because they have to get a heel hot," Meltzer said.

Rollins suffered a torn right ACL, MCL and medial meniscus at a WWE Live Event in Dublin, Ireland in a match against Kane, per WWE.com. He vacated the WWE title and is scheduled to have surgery this week with a recovery time of about six to nine months.

In a report by What Culture, the Rollins-Reigns feud will end at the TLC pay-per-view in December with Reigns holding the championship heading into WrestleMania 32 in Dallas. The injury forced the WWE to change plans for Survivor Series, TLC and the Road to WrestleMania. The WWE title will now be decided via a tournament, but no other details about it were released.

The absence of the former WWE champion adds to the list of unavailable main event stars of the WWE that includes Randy Orton out six months with shoulder injury, Daniel Bryan still not cleared to wrestle, John Cena taking time off to film a reality TV show, and The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar working on a limited schedule, per Inquisitr.

The report noted that Rollins was planned to move on to feud with Triple H that will culminate in a match at WrestleMania 32. Also, Reigns being the WWE champion will battle the winner of the 2016 Royal Rumble. The current plan now is to have Triple H face The Rock as one of the main events of next year's Wrestlemania.

Another rumored plan derailed by the injury to Rollins is a babyface turn that leads to a reunion of The SHIELD or a heel turn for Dean Ambrose. According to Forbes, WWE is better off to crown Reigns as the new WWE champion at Survivor Series, just like what they did to The Rock in 1998 at the same event. It is a better plan than having Reigns win the Royal Rumble again that could be met with another fan backlash.