Rumor: Backstage Meeting Taking Place Between Brock Lesnar And WWE Before Summerslam

You mean they still don’t know? We’re almost to Summerslam on Sunday and that should mean that most everything is ready. There isn’t a lot of time left to add anything new as both the final Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live have aired. Therefore, it’s reasonable to believe that the card is set. However, it seems that there might be something up in the air backstage and it’s a pretty big deal.

According to Barnburner’s Fired Up podcast by way of Ringsidenews.com, there is a backstage meeting planned between WWE and Brock Lesnar before Summerslam goes on the air. There aren’t any specifics on what the meeting will be about, but there is a possibility that it will result in Lesnar retaining the title and working with both the WWF and UFC going forward. Here are the quotes:

“Apparently Sunday around 4 o’clock, Brock Lesnar will have a closed-door meeting with the head honchos, maybe Stephanie, Triple H, Vince, or whatever. I don’t know what that meeting’s about. But, if he retains the title you can expect Brock Lesnar will be working for both WWE and UFC.”

“He is having and I’ve been told this by 3 sources, he’s having a closed-door meeting with the head honchos of WWE hours before his matchup with Roman Reigns at SummerSlam.”

Maybe they liked this enough to keep him around.

Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar ambush Roman Reigns: Raw, Aug. 13, 2018

Opinion: I can’t say I’m surprised by anything like this as the whole Lesnar situation has been a roller coaster from the beginning. WWE does seem to love the idea of having him hold both the Universal Title and the UFC Heavyweight Title at the same time and if they just have to keep annoying their hardcore fans to get there, so be it. I have no idea how they can validate keeping the title on Lesnar any longer but I’ve been saying that for about the last year and nothing has changed.

What do you think happens on Sunday? Will Lesnar ever wrestle for the company after this? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the the Complete 2003 Monday Night Raw Reviews.

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