Jim Ross Praises Brock Lesnar For Re-Signing With WWE

With just days before WrestleMania, WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar took to ESPN to announce he would be re-signing with WWE, putting end to rumors he would be returning to mixed martial arts. The decision took many by surprise, and created quite the reaction around the wrestling community.

WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross recently took to his blog to give his thoughts regarding the move, which can be found below:

“Brock Lesnar made his announcement on Tuesday that he was staying with WWE and retiring from MMA of which is great news for WWE and their fans and something that I though would happen for the past several weeks even though I too have vacillated on this matter numerous times. Knowing Brock since he was a Junior in college at Minnesota when we started recruiting him, I know the gladiator spirit in the man desperately wanted to close out his MMA career on a more positive note than it ended but after becoming the Undisputed UFC Heavyweight Champion what else was there to prove? Lesnar is a wrestler and not a skilled striker in that world but the first thing to go with a wrestler’s skill set is their quickness and the older one gets the less speed and quickness they possess.

Who knows what the affects of fighting in a rugged sport featuring four ounce gloves will do to one’s brain as it relates to concussions so why take the risk especially when one is in their late 30’s and especially one who has great financial options being offered them?

I’m sure that Brock’s family and closest friends participated in the decision making process but at the end of the day the final, final decision had to be made by the man himself. A younger Brock, full of P&V, might have made a different decision but the responsible husband, loving father, son and friend looked at it from a different point of view.

Brock Lesnar made the best decision for him and everyone close to him by staying in WWE and earning what I’m sure is a magnificent salary for working what is essentially a part time schedule.  Plus, by having a part time schedule it will manage how much exposure that he will get to insure that Brock remains an attraction and will not allow him to be over exposed as so many in his profession are in today’s marketplace.

WWE would e well served to allow the talents to be rotated within the system to provide more talents additional off time to rest and recover and Lesnar’s contract guarantees that he will be able to function in a more idealistic environment. No one is a bigger Lesnar fan than me as evidenced on how hard and long we recruited him but not even the most ardent Lesnar fan needs to see Brock every week. That goes for any established star on the roster for that matter.

Every amateur booker and even some of us who have done that job for a living as it relates to booking matches are having a field day looking at all the possible scenarios that might occur this Sunday at WrestleMania in the Lesnar-Reigns WWE Title match. There are  potentially endless of scenarios that ‘could’ be utilized which makes this main event infinitely more intriguing that it was before the ESPN announcement with the talented Michelle Beadle and the “Beast Incarnate.”

While many complained about the ‘build;’ to this WrestleMania being tepid in the eyes of some, the game changed drastically when Lesnar declared his intentions on ESPN Tuesday. 

I’m intrigued as to how this match ends, how @HeymanHustle and event MITB winner Seth Rollins are utilized either on Sunday or on the RAW following the biggest event of the year.

So, as I said about 60 seconds on Twitter @JRsBBQ after Brock made his decision on ESPN that ‘Business Has Picked Up’  and Sunday’s WrestleMania took on a entirely new feel…as it almost became a new entity.”

More from the blog, where he talks about the United States and Intercontinental Championships as well, can be found here.

Editor’s Note

Jim hits it dead on with Brock. He’s an attraction and a star, and locked up for three years, who knows what the company can do with him.

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