Brock Lesnar almost made a move to TNA Impact Wrestling, so we’ll see what happened there.
We’ll also take a look at what Naomi has been up to, Saraya, and much more
Let’s start things off with the story about Brock Lesnar wanting to jump over to TNA Impact
Wrestling
So Brock Lesnar’s WWE debut and the run that he had in the early 2000s was one of
the greatest runs for a rookie that WWE has ever had
He came right in and just dominated the company, and WWE was ready to label him as the new
face of the company and fully hand him the keys to the kingdom
But fast forward just a few years into the mid 2000s and everything started to change
Brock Lesnar was reportedly getting a little burnt out of the constant 24/7 WWE life and
wanted to explore some other options for himself
So he left WWE in 2004 to join the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, but unfortunately didn’t
make the final roster for the team that year
Then in 2005, he won the IWGP heavyweight championship
But then two years later in 2007, Brock Lesnar was right back to exploring new options
It was right around this same time frame where Brock Lesnar first started his training for
an MMA career
Brock signed with UFC shortly after that and even won the UFC heavyweight championship
Then as always everyone knows, Brock Lesnar signed back with WWE in 2012 and has been
with them ever since
But according to a new reveal by Kurt Angle, this history of Brock Lesnar’s career could’ve
looked very different if a certain move had happened
Kurt Angle recently revealed on his podcast that Brock Lesnar had contacted him back in
2007 for Kurt to put the word in with TNA officials that he was interested in joining
the company
Kurt angle had this to say about that story, quote:
"OK, Brock calls me.
He is not in the WWE.
He says, 'Listen, man.
Can you get me in TNA?'
I probably shouldn't even be saying this now.
But you know what?
Brock doesn't care.
He said, 'Hey, what are you making?'
And I said what I was making.
He said, 'If you can get me that, I'll come.'
I approached TNA, and they said, 'No, we're not going to give him that kind of money.'
It was amazing because, I think that TNA at the time, I think they were at the top of
their budget, where they couldn’t really give any more money out.
I was making a lot of money.
Sting was making a good bit of money, and then you had a bunch of guys on the roster.
TNA, the Carter family funded it for a long time, and then TNA started making their own
money, but it just wasn’t enough to bring in another guy for seven figures a year.
I don’t think they were capable of doing that.”
End quote
So even looking back, Kurt Angle thinks that signing Brock Lesnar would’ve been impossible
for TNA just because of the overall financial difficulties it would’ve caused
But it’s still very interesting to know that Brock Lesnar came to TNA willing to work
for them, but they had no other choice but to turn him down because of his price tag
As far as an update for current day Brock Lesnar, he seems to still have a few big matches
left in him for WWE
There was a little scary moment there where Brock Lesnar shortly walked out on WWE because
of the unexpected Vince McMahon retirement, but they were able to talk things out and
get him right back
As of this current moment, it looks like Brock Lesnar is still in the middle of his feud
with Bobby Lashley
Last time we saw Brock, he barely just survived and picked up a win against Bobby Lashley
But considering the fact that Lashley brutally attacked Lesnar after the match, that tells
that they have a lot of unfinished business there
So we should definitely expect to see at least one more match between Bobby Lashley and Brock
Lesnar
But that’s latest on Brock Lesnar for the time being
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Naomi came back into headlines this week after she made a public appearance alongside AEW
TBS Champion, Jade Cargill
Naomi and Jade went to an NBA basketball game in Atlanta
They posted several pictures and videos together as they were seated court-side for the game
Now of course two friends hanging out is never going to be the biggest piece of ground breaking
news, but what made their posts together go even more viral is of course due to the current
uncertainty of Naomi’s future in the ring and where she’s going to end up at
A lot of fans expected Sasha and Naomi to easily return to WWE once Triple H’s regime
came into power
But several months later and there’s still been no news of any progress between Sasha,
Naomi, and WWE
it’s at the point there where really anything can happen.
Maybe they still return to WWE, or maybe they will end up going elsewhere like AEW
So the pictures in reality probably don’t exactly mean what everyone assumes it means,
but either way, it still had fans buzzing and talking
Could we maybe see Naomi and Jad Cargill standing the middle of an AEW ring one day?
Well as of this very moment, anything is a possibility for both Sasha Banks and Naomi
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There’s been a handful of miracle returns over the last few years from wrestlers who
were told that they’ll never compete inside the ring again
The latest addition to this list of miracle returns to the ring is Saraya, formally known
as Paige in WWE
Saraya’s horrific and freakish injury all went down during a late 2017 live event show
Saraya was only a handful of months into her WWE return as the leader of the Absolution
faction, but that run ended up being extremely short because of this injury
It was a big tag team match at this live event, Saraya and Sasha Banks are the two legal competitors
in the ring, Saraya turns around, Sasha kicks her in that spinal area and that was it
Saraya said she just lost feeling everywhere, and doctors told her that she was very lucky
to still be able to walk out of the ring that night.
She could’ve been paralyzed on the spot
And ever since that moment well over five years ago, she had been away from the ring
But as everyone now knows, Saraya has been cleared by medical professional and is resuming
her in-ring career that was robbed from her at such a young age
So now with Saraya getting that clearance, she still has her eyes on one dream match
that she wants to have one day, and that’s a match against Sasha Banks
Sasha Banks was the last person that she was in the ring with before that injury took place,
so she wants a full circle moment of getting back in the ring with Sasha Banks
Saraya had this to say about that dream match during an interview with Chris Van Vliet,
quote:
“So I really wanted to have that match for Sasha.
Like I wanted to have that rematch with her, because we have a built in story you know,
so I really wanted that.
But she’s kind of going down her own path and stuff now, doing her own thing.
You don’t know where she’s going to be.
She has an exciting life going on right now, I’m very pleased and like she’s building
her career outside of wrestling too, you know, awesome.
And Naomi.
So it’s really really cool to see.
One day I’ll have that match with Sasha, though.”
End quote
So Saraya doesn’t know where or when that match with Sasha Banks will take place, but
she still believes it will happen down the line
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