WWE Called Out Following Brock Lesnar’s Return On RAW: “Zero Sense”
This WWE veteran thinks Brock Lesnar’s return on Raw makes zero sense if it were a planned move by the creative team.
Brock Lesnar took off his gloves and boots and left them in the ring, signalling retirement after his loss to Oba Femi at WrestleMania 42. The Ruler, who had accepted Lesnar’s open challenge a few weeks before the Show of Shows, managed to defeat the Beast Incarnate in under five minutes, and what followed was one of the most shocking retirements in pro wrestling.
However, all that was undone last week on Raw when Lesnar appeared to interrupt Femi’s open challenge and landed four thunderous F-5s on the Ruler. A contract was signed later to confirm that the two will face off in a rematch at Clash in Italy in a couple of weeks.
The emotions that were running through Lesnar, his manager Paul Heyman, and the entire WWE Universe seemed very real at WrestleMania 42, which begs the question: why did Brock do it if he was going to get a call back from the Stamford-based company? Johnathan Coachman and Vince Russo try to explain the reasons on the Coach and Bro show.
WWE Veteran Vince Russo Says Brock Lesnar’s Latest Raw Return Makes “Zero Sense”
Russo talked about how WWE has recently tried to frame certain real events as pre-planned “works”. One example was R-Truth’s (Ron Killings’) temporary release from the company mid-last year, which was addressed in the Netflix docuseries, WWE: Unreal Season 2, that showed how he was fired and rehired almost immediately, with the explanation that it was planned as a surprise.
He then said that if this Lesnar return is indeed a “work”, then it makes even less sense, and that the creative team is worse than he originally thought.
He also believes that the emotions during the original retirement were real.
Oh, this was absolutely incredible. Just absolutely incredible. And here’s the funny thing. You know, they’re gonna try…What did he say when they let Ron Killings go? Remember Triple H? Oh, that was all part of the show.
Here’s the problem with the WWE. They’re going to try to convince you this was all part of the show. If this was part of the show, your creative is worse than I thought it was, bro. Seriously, they killed themselves by trying to sell this off as this was part of the show, because if this were part of the show, sorry guys, it makes zero sense. This was part of no show. (7:46 onwards)
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