Triple H And WWE Brutally Slammed For Mistake With Brock Lesnar-Oba Femi Feud
Triple H is facing criticism from a WWE Hall of Famer who thinks the Brock Lesnar-Oba Femi feud is missing something important.
One of the most highly anticipated matches at WrestleMania 42 saw Oba Femi defeat Brock Lesnar in a “passing of the torch” kind of match. Femi is 20 years younger than Lesnar and has many years ahead of him as a future main eventer, while Lesnar is close to retirement, which he teased after the WrestleMania 40 match.
After his WrestleMania 42 loss, an angry Lesnar returned unannounced and attacked Femi with multiple F5’s to set up a rematch at Clash in Italy.
That led to Brock Lesnar beating Oba Femi at Clash in Italy to make their record 1-1 against eachother and likely set up a rematch, which could come at SummerSlam in August.
On the WWE Monday Night Raw episode after Clash in Italy, Oba Femi won a massive 4-way match to advance to the King of the Ring Semifinals. Many people think Femi could win King of the Ring and get a shot at the World Heavyweight Title, but it’s also possible that Lesnar costs Femi a match before he can be crowned king.
During a recent episode of his 83 Weeks podcast, WWE Hall of Famer and former WCW President Eric Bischoff made his strong feelings known by criticizing WWE’s creative team, led by Paul “Triple H” Levesque, for the lack of a story.
“A rubber match that I don’t care about because none of it makes sense. The first one didn’t make sense. The second one didn’t make sense. Well, the first one made sense, but the second one didn’t make sense. There was no story. There was no setup. There was no why.”
WWE’s Triple H Led Creative Team Doesn’t Have A Strong Story For Oba Femi-Brock Lesnar
As Bischoff continued, he spoke about how the story for the Femi-Lesnar rivalry isn’t really much, which seems like a direct shot at the WWE creative team led by Triple H.
“You know, people talk about how great storylines are, and you know, it’s subjective. Everybody’s got different opinions. But for me, if a story at any given time doesn’t either answer the question why or provoke you to try to figure out why a character is embarking on a certain journey or destination or goal, then you’re not really interested.
And Brock got beat. He had tears in his eyes. I believed him. He took off his stuff. He left it in the ring. All of the things that are a signature goodbye and he came back. Why? I don’t know. Doesn’t matter. Oh, doesn’t it? Well, then neither does the match that follows the lack of why.”
In the story, Lesnar was featured in a video package saying he didn’t want to retire after a loss like the one he took against Oba Femi, so WWE tried to explain the “why” in terms of the rematch.
Bischoff went on to discuss the potential third match (the rubber match) between Femi and Lesnar.
“And therefore, neither will the rubber match if indeed there is one. Unless somewhere along the line somebody tells me why he took his stuff off and left it in the ring and then jumped back into the ring without an explanation. There’s got to be a reason why.
It doesn’t even have to be that good. Just give me something. Something to believe in this much and then maybe, but without it, it’s just eh. It’s like just moving pieces around on the chessboard or on the checkerboard that doesn’t really set anything up, that doesn’t really matter, but you are moving checkers around, so there’s that.”
Regarding the Lesnar retirement story, Bischoff also explained why there’s a hole in that story.
“Brock’s retirement. Yeah, that’s confusing. And maybe there’s an answer. Maybe something’s going to reveal itself.
I always hold out hope because I do think the core talent in the WWE writing room is outstanding and they have all the capabilities in the world, but something has to happen to get them kind of back on track because some of these questions, my reaction, and I’m having fun with it, probably a little overanimated than I truly feel, but there’s a hole. It just makes no sense.”