At Crown Jewel, Brock Lesnar beat Braun Strowman in a squash match by hitting him with 5 F5s and became a 2-time Universal Champion. Quite a few people expected Brock to jump ship to UFC after dropping the title to Roman and expected Braun to win it at Crown Jewel.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed Brock’s status and what he might be doing as a businessman and what his plans might be. This is what he had to say:
“This still may be nothing more than Brock playing Vince for the last year with the whole UFC — and Dana [White] too. You know, I mean when you watch the step by step by step and how much money he’s making the smartest one in this equations are supposed to be the lunkhead from Minnesota who’s not as smart guy and he’s proven himself to be who’s smarter in wrestling? No one, right?”
“They’ve backed up the Brinks truck to his house again — but if he’s wrestling at the Royal Rumble there’s no way he can [fight] in late-January, early-February against anyone they’re talking about [in the UFC]. But even if it’s WrestleMania are you gonna do a for the [UFC] Championship and come back at WrestleMania? What if you win the championship you’re not going to come back at WrestleMania — but you have to come back at WrestleMania because I’m sure that these 3 matches were contracted when he let Lesnar win. That I’m sure if — Vince is in no shape or form — in theory, if he wrestles at Rumble because I’m sure he won’t be around for March or April.”
“But then here’s the thing, March is the deadline in theory — it’s not locked in stone — but that’s when [Daniel] Cormier says he’s retiring — it’s his birthday. So if Lesnar’s not wrestling until March… there’s a lot of interesting timing issues here. It may also go into the situation here that Lesnar could go into that match as the champion against Cormier, maybe Jon Jones or whoever and the WWE Champion may walk into a UFC fight and get destroyed. Which I guess it’s okay but promotions have gone through great lengths over the years to make sure that never happens.”
We will have to wait and see what Brock truly plans.
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h/t to Ringside News for the transcription.
