There were very few wrestling fans who thought this dream match would actually happen, but barring something unforeseen, Brock Lesnar vs. Samoa Joe is actually going to happen. Like, in a pay-per-view main event title match and everything. Sure, it’s going to happen at the unfortunately-named Great Balls of Fire PPV, but let’s try to look past that. Two of the biggest, most fearsome badasses in wrestling are finally going to lock up, and it’s going to be awesome. Probably.
But it’s not just fans who are pumped for this one. Some legit big shots in the industry are licking their chops over this one, including WWE Hall of Fame announcer Jim Ross. Ross, of course, recently made his big return to WWE, and is contracted for a good number of announcing dates over the next couple of years. In his most recent blog post, Ross had a brilliant suggestion for one of those dates: he wants to call the match between Lesnar and Joe. This is, of course, something that we should all demand. Are White House online petitions still a thing?
Ross gushed about the matchup and made his not-so-subtle plea.
Samoa Joe getting his long awaited bout with Brock Lesnar is a stellar booking IMO and one that I endorsed at our RINGSIDE Show the night before WM31 in San Jose when Joe was my guest at our RINGSIDE Show. Some naysayers are already questioning this booking which is a head scratcher as some feel that Joe is being positioned for merely a one off against Lesnar which, if true, is not the end of the world by the way for anyone involved. I say that the Lesnar-Joe match will receive plenty of talk/hype over the next several weeks and that the two, physically demanding athletes will provide us a tremendous one on one main event in Dallas.
I am personally looking forward to this match as much as any match I can recall this year and will tell you that it is an announcer’s dream to be privileged to call a bout like this. Yep, I’m fishing here.
Please, yes. Please. If ever there was a match that qualified as a guaranteed slobberknocker, it’s this one. Well, it’ll be a sweatknocker at the very least. Yikes, how does “sweatknocker” sound so much grosser than “slobberknocker?” My apologies for putting that term inside your head. I hope it doesn’t cause any sort of H.P. Lovecraft-style madness, but that’s what you get for not reading our full terms of service.
