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The Undertaker Officially Joins Instagram ...you will find WWE icon The Undertaker,
who has now officially joined the social media platform.
With the username ‘undertaker’ - all lower case - he’s already amassed almost 400,000
followers with just one low quality image captioned The Deadman.
This appears to be the real Phenom, as the new account has the little blue verified tick
that indicates the profile really belongs to the Undertaker.
Unless it’s all a work - because we’ve certainly been there before.
Actually, that poses quite a few questions…
Who really is Fake Undertaker?
Who really is Fake Kane?
And who really is Byron Sa- Wait a second… ...who really is Luke Owen?
I’m sure it’s fine.
What isn’t so ok, though, is the main event scene of Monday Night Raw.
Brock Lesnar Next WWE Match At Summerslam WWE’s Universal Champion Brock Lesnar was
last seen on the 27th April kind of successfully defending his title against Roman Reigns at
the Greatest Royal Rumble.
It seems the event’s host city of Jeddah was so beautiful, though - SWEET JESUS, IT’S
SO BLOODY BEAUTIFUL - Brock stayed there and hasn’t been heard from since.
The latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting we’ll have to wait two months
more for Lesnar’s next appearance, “As of right now, the plan for Lesnar’s next
Universal title match is SummerSlam, on 8/19 in Brooklyn.”
This will make it 114 days between Brock matches - exceeding the 98 days between WrestleMania
33 and his Great Balls of Fire title defence last year as Lesnar’s longest period out
of WWE since 2016.
Apparently “Lesnar is tentatively headlining [SummerSlam] but that is not locked in stone”,
but what will happen to the Beast Incarnate following WWE’s big summer pay-per-view?
It was widely believed Brock would be leaving WWE to return to the UFC after WrestleMania
34 back in April where he’d drop the Universal title to Reigns [IMAGE].
An agreement was made for Lesnar to stay on with the belt, though, but the exact terms
of the deal have reportedly ranged from a multi-year new contract, to just a several
month extension through the summer.
Dave Meltzer notes that if Lesnar re-enters USADA’s testing pool - a prerequisite to
fighting in the UFC again - by the end of June, then that’s a clear sign he’ll be
leaving WWE to fight at UFC’s New Year’s weekend show.
If he doesn’t, he’ll likely stay with WWE.
So with Brock not around on Raw for at least another two months, what are we going to get
on Monday nights?
WWE Extreme Rules Plans Leaked?
Six man tags main eventing pay-per-views, apparently.
The PPG Paints Arena currently lists two matches for July’s dual-branded pay-per-view - it’s
the best of both worlds!
- Extreme Rules.
One of which is Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman and Bobby Lashley vs. Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn
and Jinder Mahal - implying we’re stuck with Raw’s lacklustre Reigns vs Jinder and
Lashley and his three beautiful sisters vs Zayn for another two months.
And it’s not that much more appealing on the SmackDown side of things, with Daniel
Bryan vs Big Cass being the other featured match-up currently promoted - implying Bryan’s
first singles feud since coming out of retirement will involve at least three pay-per-view matches
primarily based on his opponent being tall.
But there is hope - as the card is always subject to change, and the Wrestling Observer
reporting a different SmackDown match as being advertised: Daniel Bryan vs Samoa Joe - which
we just missed out on this week’s episode when Big Cass was added to make it a triple
threat.
Interestingly, the Observer notes that neither Ronda Rousey or John Cena are listed in the
other featured WWE superstars section of the adverts.
Speaking of John Cena, find out his shoot comments on his fellow WWE stars by clicking
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