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So, you didn’t win the Universal Championship at Great Balls of Fire. At least the champion who makes his own schedule and does whatever he wants enjoyed your company!
According to TheFightful.com, Brock Lesnar was “really, really happy” with Samoa Joe following their main event title match at Great Balls of Fire. If you missed the show, the champ retained after an F-5, but most of the match was dedicated to Joe straight-up kicking Brock’s ass. The report notes that Lesnar was, “particularly thrilled that Joe was able to keep up with his physical style and was able to give it back.” That should be good news for Joe going forward, and will hopefully give us another Lesnar/Joe match in the future instead of moving on to other things.
Lesnar’s opinion carries a lot of weight in WWE, and has influenced the company’s booking before. Last November, Dave Meltzer reported that Brock had “pushed hard” to lose to Bill Goldberg in only 86 seconds at Survivor Series to help get him over, WCW style, and build a series of matches instead of a one-and-done blow-off.
If broad declarations of number one contendership are to be believed, Brock Lesnar is supposed to face Roman Reigns at SummerSlam. Maybe this will change that, and we’ll get Brock versus his preferred Samoan Joe.
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Please, please, please let this happen. The match at GBOF felt like the first third or quarter of a great match.
I really enjoyed the match they put on…It was short but showed what they could do if given more time. Plus if anything motivates Brock to put on a show, you need to go with it.
Agreed. Love the style. It’s the way it should go, 2 huge bruises going at each other 100%. I don’t wanna see a 22 minute match between 2 guys like that. Go out there, believably beat the hell out of each other and just get it done.
Yeah, they both seemed like they had more gas in their tanks and could’ve done another 5-10 minutes. Great taste, but I’ll be disappointed if we don’t get the main course between these two.
God, I hope this is true. Make SummerSlam Reigns vs. Joe vs. Lesnar. Lesnar retains and because he is supposedly now booked for No Mercy the month after, have Lesnar vs. Joe in a Hell in a Cell match. Joe wins. Please?
Oh cool congratulations to Samoa Joe for being liked by the lazy, complacent, boring, past-his-prime, overpaid, underworked, dick-chested part-timer.
I think it would be cool to see them in a 2 out of 3 falls or something.
The segment with Reigns, Joe and Lesnar on Raw the other night was white hot. We need more of this intensity its what the fans crave. I do wonder how much of it was unscripted and went off page because it looked pretty damn real to me, Brock as hyped as Ive seen him in a long time. No one has shown less fear of brock than Joe has to the point where they were locking heads. Could even hear Heyman egging Reigns and Joe to start brawling there and then. One last point anybody else sense the direction Reigns and Heyman are headed. A lot of mutual respect there and something is going to go down in the near future where The Big Dog becomes a Heyman guy