With three weeks left until WrestleMania 31, you know, the WWE’s biggest show of the year, there seems to be a lot of unanswered questions. Seth Rollins and Randy Orton are still playing for the same team, even though there are teasers out there for their impending match. John Cena and Rusev aren’t confirmed on screen yet, even though the potential build is there with Rusev taunting Cena. We don’t have the confirmed participants in the Ladder Match, even though we have a good idea of who is set for it. Most would agree that, with three weeks left, these matches would be solidified and the build for the matches would be under way. So that begs the question, why are all these matches will open-ended?
Recently, news broke that Brock Lesnar walked out on WWE after a heated argument with Vince McMahon. Speculation is that this blow up has to do with a future deal. Some have reported it’s about Brock’s desire to simultaneously work for WWE and UFC. Even Bellator is reported to have interest in Brock. Of course, none of this is confirmed except for the fact that Brock Lesnar didn’t appear on Raw two weeks ago when he was advertised to do so. As it stands, that’s the only confirmation we’ll ever get in this He-Said She-Said world wrestling news reporting.
So where does that leave us, the fans? I’ve said many times in these articles as well as in the discussion board, what a mistake it was to have Brock Lesnar go over Cena the way he did at Summer Slam. I said more in the context of defending why Roman Reigns has to be the one to face Lesnar at Mania, but today, a few hours before Raw goes on the air, I re-affirm my statement in a different light. Brock Lesnar’s squash win over Cena at SummerSlam was a MISTAKE! Not just because they handcuffed themselves to committing to Reigns as the “next guy”, but now, because Brock Lesnar’s mental instability and proven unreliability puts the main event of wrestling’s biggest show of the year in question.
This is exactly why none of the aforementioned matches are set in stone yet. WWE needs to keep their options open. Everyone here knows what happened 11 years ago. Brock slept walked through build and the match with Goldberg. The only saving grace, was a Stone Cold Stunner to both of them, before WWE finally, and for good reason, simply said Good Bye. WWE needs to assure themselves, the full-time performers, and the fans, that we won’t have to put up with a repeat of that. So what now?
WWE leaves themselves a solid back up plan by leaving everything open. They now have John Cena, Randy Orton, Seth Rollins, and Daniel Bryan to fall back on. Think about it. Why would Stardust randomly come out and attack Daniel Bryan in the midst of the IC Title circus? If WWE needs to, they can pull Bryan out of this IC Title thing and get him back in the title picture. Then, Stardust can replace him in the ladder match. We all know it makes no sense for Bryan to be involved in the IC Title picture at this point anyway. It makes perfect sense for all other contenders in the match, as they’ve all held or fought for the title previously, where Daniel Bryan has already made it to the next level. This same principle, even if you all hate it, applies to John Cena, who is clearly leaps and bounds above the US Title. He’s still the number 1 face and draw in the company, even if his act is stale and tired. Nobody can deny that. Then there’s Randy Orton and Seth Rollins. They can always fall back on these two if they opt to keep Bryan and Cena where they have them now.
Brock Lesnar is already gone. He could show up tonight and it doesn’t even matter. Brock has already slept walked his way through the last three years in a deal that could be considered nothing more than legalized robbery. It’s not his fault. WWE offered him the contract and the money. All he did was sign the contract and cash his checks. Each and every one of us would’ve done the same thing.
In the end, it leaves the WWE and us fans in a state of uncertainty. Will Brock Lesnar be at WrestleMania? As it stands now, he’s contractually obligated so we would all assume yes. The bigger question is, Should He Be? I’m okay with any one of the four wrestlers I mentioned as a back up plan. There’s room for WWE to swing this any which way they need to in order to get one, two or hell, even all four of them into the main event match. So my answer is an emphatic NO. Brock Lesnar should NOT even be at WrestleMania this year. If I were the WWE, I would hold the door for Brock on his way out. Have him come out and cut off Paul Heyman and say he’s too big for this and drop the belt and leave, never to be seen in WWE again. It’s short, to the point, and they can do it in the beginning of the show so the situation and Brock himself is forgotten by the time the second commercial break happens. Doing this would make for a better atmosphere the rest of Raw. It would certainly add quality to these last three episodes of Raw leading up to WrestleMania. And without any doubt, it would drastically improve the quality of WrestleMania overall.
What do you guys think? Get rid of him now? Let him walk and not worry about his remaining dates? Or ride out the storm and risk potential disaster at WrestleMania?
