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Headline: Brock Lesnar Re-Signs With WWE!
After his very surprising win in the main event of WrestleMania 34, it was announced
by WWE that Universal Champion Brock Lesnar has re-signed with the company.
This follows on from the various rumours from the latter half of 2017 that Lesnar was set
to return to UFC after his WWE contract expired - which was furthered in the week leading
up to WrestleMania when Dana White announced that Brock was heading back to the Octagon,
and Paul Heyman told Kenny McIntosh at an Inside The Ropes event that The Beast was
done after his match with Reigns.
Not only did WWE announce that Lesnar had re-signed, it was revealed that his next match
would be in a couple of weeks at Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia on April 27th
- where he will defend his Universal Championship against Reigns inside a steel cage.
The length of Lesnar’s contract wasn’t mentioned in the press release by WWE, but
some reports say that it’s just a short-term deal - possibly until Summerslam where he
reportedly will face Bobby Lashley in the main event for the Universal Championship.
Fightful conversely report that, “Lesnar signed a new multi-year deal AND will also
be allowed to fight in the UFC as hes still under UFC contract...
Lesnar’s been under a UFC contract since the announcement was made he would face Mark
Hunt at UFC 200.
Lesnar’s WWE contract had options that would have expired in August but McMahon really
wanted him to stay as he views him and [Ronda] Rousey as his two biggest attractions.”
Fightful add that the current plan is for Lesnar to face off against the winner of Daniel
Cormier and Stipe Miocic - which takes place at UFC 226 and is for the UFC Heavyweight
Championship.
Fightful also note that Lesnar will have to formally re-enter the USADA drug testing pool
and finish his suspension which has around six months left.
What this means for his UFC future is interesting.
Dave Meltzer - who is reporting that this is actually a short-term deal for maybe six
months - noted on Wrestling Observer Radio in reference to Dana White saying Lesnar was
coming back to UFC that Brock may have been negotiating with UFC without any intention
of going back - but used it as leverage to get a better deal with WWE.
He adds, “At the same time there’s more money to be made for him in UFC than there
is in WWE.”
And Brock Lesnar isn’t the only person who has re-signed with WWE.
Headline: Paul Heyman Re-Signs With WWE!
As it’s been revealed by PWInsider that his advocate Paul Heyman has also signed a
new deal with the company.
Over the last couple of weeks there has been some questions about Heyman’s future with
WWE, with rumours that he could be an advocate for someone else should Lesnar have left,
and the news that he and his business partner Mitchell Stewart have penned a deal for several
new TV projects.
PWInsider have also noted that Heyman re-signing was part of the deal to get Lesnar to re-sign.
“As one WWE source commented earlier today, if Lesnar was going to sign a new deal, he
was going to make sure he had everything he wanted, including Heyman by his side.”
However the contract negotiations went, they probably weren’t as heated as a reported
backstage confrontation at WrestleMania 34.
Headline: Brock Lesnar & Vince McMahon Backstage Fight?
Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet has reported that Brock Lesnar and Vince McMahon got into
a verbal fight backstage after the main event of WrestleMania 34 [8-screen].
Satin reports that several sources have told him this story, which states that Lesnar was
livid when he got to gorilla position and took his frustrations out on Vince.
“Sources tell us the brief, but heated incident ended with Brock throwing the Universal Title
belt — some say at Vince, some say at a wall — then walking away.
No word yet on what set him off.”
Dave Meltzer expanded on this on Wrestling Observer Radio saying, “He threw the belt
against the wall next to Vince McMahon.
He was unhappy.
Shane McMahon jumped in.
He kind of wanted to fight Brock Lesnar, or at least he acted like he wanted to fight
Brock Lesnar.
And Brock and Heyman left the building.”
Wade Keller of Pro Wrestling Torch has also corroborated that there was an incident between
Lesnar and McMahon and that the title was thrown [8-screen].
However he adds possible reasons for this altercation.
The first is that Vince was very unhappy with the amount of blood Lesnar drew hardway during
the match, and the second is that the spot where Lesnar launches Reigns over the German
announcers table was unplanned and they were not prepared for it.
Keller adds that there are those in the company who are skeptical that Vince was unhappy about
the blood as they weren’t shy about showing it during the broadcast, and are unsure whether
Reigns and Lesnar called the announcer's table spot together, or whether it was Brock going
at it alone.
Blimey there was an awful lot of stuff going on at the Raw After Mania.
I highly suggest you go and watch Oli Davis’ review of it right now.
And if you’re looking for things to watch, why not check out our ONE HOUR AND FORTY minute
review of WrestleMania 34.
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