As we previously reported, Brock Lesnar’s WWE Universal Title Match last night against Kane in Chicago was a squash that lasted roughly 30 seconds.
On today’s episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed last night’s match and reported that the reason the match was so short was because it was a “company directive”.
“Brock worked a match in under a minute, which was a company directive, but the fans were furious. They booed it and Lesnar got a giant babyface reaction. Even after that Roman Reigns thing, he got a giant babyface reaction when he came out against Kane. It was real quick action. Kane threw a few punches, Brock hit two german suplexes, Kane got up and tried for the chokeslam, Brock blocked it and hit the F-5. 1-2-3. Like I said, less than a minute, and not a good reaction to that at all. A lot of people real mad at Brock.”
Meltzer went on to indicate that Brock could be saving his body for a possible return to the UFC once his WWE contract expires. He also discussed how Lesnar did the same thing prior to his fight at UFC 200 against Mark Hunt.
“Is the idea that he’s saving his body because he’s going back to fighting? When he went back fighting for the Mark Hunt fight, he had the WrestleMania match with Dean Ambrose where he really didn’t do much of anything really. So, if he’s going back, he’s probably going to do less.”
The show’s co-host Bryan Alvarez questioned why it was a company directive, and why WWE would even care about protecting Brock Lesnar’s body if he has plans to leave the company once his contract expires. Meltzer went on to explain that WWE knows Brock is probably leaving the company and it was their decision to have a short match between Kane and Lesnar, so it was short.
Meltzer also added that Brock Lesnar dives a very hard bargain and that he essentially makes the call and does whatever he wants to do. Which basically indicates that if Lesnar doesn’t want to do something, he won’t do it.
“Brock drives a hard bargain. I know from the people in the UFC that you know – Just everything. You know with New Japan World, they had to take down all his matches. Whenever his name is used with anything like UFC – Very, very protective of everything. He’s not the easiest guy to get along with and they kind of have to do – he will not do, or do whatever he wants, essentially.”
(H/T our friends at Ringsidenews.com for the transcriptions.)
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