WWE Rumors: Brock Lesnar vs. Lashley Used to be Moved for Stone Chilly Match at WrestleMania
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WWE reportedly called off the firstly scheduled match between Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley at WrestleMania 39 in anticipation of a explicit bout that did now not reach to fruition.
In step with Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated, WWE moved Lesnar vs. Lashley from WrestleMania to Elimination Chamber final month with an gaze toward having Lesnar face WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin on the Grandest Stage of Them All as a replacement.
WWE and Austin had been reportedly unable to reach lend a hand to phrases, alternatively, forcing WWE to pivot to some diversified alternatives.
Barrasso added that WWE toyed with the basis of Lesnar vs. Bray Wyatt or Lesnar vs. Gunther at WrestleMania nonetheless settled on The Beast Incarnate clashing with the 7’3″ Nigerian Giant, Omos.
Meanwhile, Lashley is in the course of a contention with Wyatt, and WWE looks to be constructing toward a WrestleMania match between them.
That will most likely be in jeopardy, though, as Fightful Buy (h/t Felix Upton of Ringside Recordsdata) reported that Wyatt is out with a “physical arena” and has no agency timeline to reach lend a hand.
Lesnar vs. Omos became once a a dinky graceful reserving resolution on account of the reality that Omos had now not been featured indispensable in the months preceding the announcement.
It appears to be like likely that WWE’s resolution-makers noticed on the least some intrigue in the measurement distinction between Lesnar and Omos—and looked forward to the form of spectacle that is at risk of be created by having Brock hit Omos with an F-5.
The match figures to be a rapid and straight forward one for Lesnar, and it affords WWE the possibility to build a memorable moment that is shown in WrestleMania video programs for rather a lot of years to reach lend a hand.
Austin is now not scheduled for a match at WrestleMania 39 despite making his in-ring return final yr at WrestleMania 38 after 19 years of retirement.
The Texas Rattlesnake became once marketed sooner than time for a KO Display section with Kevin Owens, nonetheless it turned right into a No Holds Barred match that headlined Evening 1 of WrestleMania 38.
Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp (h/t H Jenkins of ThirstyForNews.com) reported this week that WWE has made additional WrestleMania pitches to Austin, with definitely one of them being a match or section with cocky heel LA Knight.
It’s miles rarely identified if Stone Chilly is originate to affords or if he could perchance well settle for one, nonetheless it appears to be like an Austin appearance at WrestleMania 39 is now not out of the query.
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