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Brock could miss Rumble/Mania 2017-07-20 12:48:47 Post No. 2900193
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>For Lesnar, he’d need a minimum nine to ten week window of camp and fight week, which would mean no pro wrestling. He’d also have to almost surely drop the Universal title, because I can’t see WWE allowing a Universal champion being put in a position where he could look bad in a fight.
>When he announced his retirement in mid-February, the one-year suspension was frozen. The only way to get the clock ticking on the suspension would be to be put back in the pool, so in doing so on 7/19 or 7/20, he would have five more months of suspension time, putting a return in mid-December at the earliest. It is possible the nature of him retiring and then coming back would extend the window to six months, putting his earliest return date as mid-January. UFC officials had not clarified whether it was five months or six months at press time, and that makes a big difference. Not fighting until late January would remove him from the Rumble show and could threaten WrestleMania. If the idea was not to fight until after this contract expires in April, he’d have had no reason to get back in the drug testing pool before until October, so that would indicate plans are for the fight before the end of his WWE contract, and that’s problematic given the time frame of WWE’s two biggest shows of the year.
>If he was to fight, the December show would fit timing wise because he could miss Survivor Series and be back for Rumble and Mania, but sources close to the situation have said he is not looking at fighting until 2018.
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>Besides Miocic, potential opponents for Lesnar that would be viable are Velasquez and Alistair Overeem, who both beat him in the past, Francis Ngannou and Jon Jones. Jones would be the biggest money fight of all, provided Jones doesn’t lose to Daniel Cormier on 7/29. From a UFC standpoint, even though Jones would probably be outweighed by 40 to 50 pounds inside the cage, he’d probably be the heavy favorite and it’s a huge marquee fight and one that could bring Jones to the superstar level that he flirted with in the past.
He's going to draw 1.5m vs Jones during Mania season while WWMeme goes down in flames KEK
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>The Brock Lesnar situation becomes even more interesting since the main event for SummerSlam on 8/20 in Brooklyn was to go to the winner of the 7/17 Raw match in Nashville between Samoa Joe vs. Roman Reigns.
But the match ended without a winner, and with Braun Strowman laying both men out. While nothing was officially announced, it certainly appeared that the Lesnar vs. Reigns title match plan was more likely going to0 be a four-man match with Joe and Strowman added.
If Lesnar has to lose the title now, and based on the timing of him fighting, he may not have to (although if he’s fighting in December or January, that would timetable no wrestling after mid-October to mid-November, if not earlier) this at least gives them three options as far as who to lose it to. They could continue with Strowman as the monster and put him over here to set him up for losing to Reigns at WrestleMania, which would be close to the original plan. But if Cena vs. Reigns is planned, that would necessitate Reigns to be champion probably no later than January. If they do a four-way, either Strowman or Joe winning and leading to losing in a singles match to Reigns makes more sense then Reigns winning now and then defending against Strowman, Joe and others until getting to Mania.
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>One thing is that if word gets out that Lesnar is leaving WWE, the fans will probably turn on him, and perhaps there is a window of opportunity for
Vince to have the Lesnar vs. Reigns match he’s been wanting for years and have it garner at least close to the reaction he always thought it would get when it was originally in the planning stages back in 2014.
They’ve also been booking strong heels so Reigns may still go over and then have Strowman, Joe and Bray Wyatt ready as contenders for the next few months and lead to John Cena at Mania, since the Free Agent storyline implies plans for a major program with someone on Raw.
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